Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either the herbs naturally present were suppressing the disease organism or were helping the fish to suppress the symptoms of the disease |
| 2 | I decided that she either had friends or family nearby or was pacing the streets in desperation ! |
| 3 | It was taken for granted that education was beneficial to those who received it , and that its universal provision was one of the great social improvements that were to mark the end of the war . |
| 4 | also that it was the Party cadres that were taking the lead , but in the settling of accounts the peasants |
| 5 | In fact , the Germans detonated only one of the British Army 's mines before the massive explosions that were to herald the attack . |
| 6 | I could tell , though , that she was beginning to have some uncomfortable suspicions — like the ones that were spreading the chill all through me . |
| 7 | The reason lay in the large economic changes that were affecting the world economy , the government 's own responses and the particular nature of the new machinery of control . |
| 8 | Tyson 's past had come back eerily to haunt him — this time not in street violence but in the way Desiree Washington , a competitor in the Miss America Pageant accused him of the crimes that were to see the world heavyweight champion 's status reduced to that of a common criminal . |
| 9 | They were positively received in the parliaments of the six states that were to take the initiative in integration in the following decade . |
| 10 | And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set , and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish : and they that were chewing chewed not , and they that were lifting the food lifted it not , and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto , but the faces of all of them were looking upward . |
| 11 | When South America and Australia broke away to begin their long periods of isolation from the rest of the world , they each carried their own cargo of dinosaurs , and also of the less-prominent animals that were to become the ancestors of modern mammals . |
| 12 | Thomas Tait in the lead , closely followed by Jack Coia , Basil Spence , T. Waller Marwick , A. D. Bryce , and other members of the team , the architects picked their way through the mud and piles of bricks that were to become the Empire Exhibition . |
| 13 | Then you 'll hear from the second of officers namely the officers that went into the flat that were carrying the guns , carrying and who conducted the operation and from their evidence you 'll be able to judge whether or not the force used was reasonable and was necessary . |
| 14 | Now it was his men that were paying the penalty . |
| 15 | While there he received one of the fateful telegrams that were to dot the history of the underground : ‘ Phone Hoppy ’ it said . |
| 16 | The head bored through the blockages that were reducing the blood flow . |
| 17 | He was really getting to her , and it was n't only the accusations he was flinging at her that were doing the damage . |
| 18 | and er he said to himself there 's something I , I , I do n't know what it is necessarily but there is something , go to a specialist and the specialist was very very good you know blah blah blah blah you want some te I want some tests , you know , so I had some tests , you know and the crew that were doing the tests they knew what they were looking for and they either found it or they did n't , do n't know . |
| 19 | We have er found that to be the case there is a downward trend , but I do make the point , and I did make the point to the inspectors notwithstanding that , all of our respecting officers bar those that were doing the training of course do produce a higher work output per individual than most of our peers up and down the country and we have statis statistical evidence to support that . |
| 20 | So , with a tail wind , he began the 130/140 miles , picking some carrots and apples en-route , and noticing the barrage balloons that were protecting the factories . |
| 21 | You children were excited on the journey to Gibraltar and kept running from side to side of the boat looking out for the small destroyers that were guarding the convoy . |
| 22 | In our opinion not all of the pouch excisions performed would not be necessary ; in some of the earlier cases of fistulas that were encountered the pouch might now be salvaged . |
| 23 | By the second day , more viewers were watching North than were watching the daytime soap operas , As the World Turns and General Hospital . |
| 24 | And then , the awful unblemished truth about this musical force that was rocking the nation : |
| 25 | From now on , the twin claws of the pincer that was to hold the development of penal policy fast in its grip were the remorseless increase in the incidence of crime , and the overcrowding in the prisons . |
| 26 | The first was tackled in a way that was to set the pattern — a devastating technique that the Prince has used time and again : bringing people together who would not normally meet . |
| 27 | But , as things transpired , it was Nation 's eventual storyline , initially titled ‘ The Mutants ’ that was to set the seal on the way the science fiction stories would be handled within Doctor Who 's structure . |
| 28 | Driving the cattle that was to feed the troops through the Alps was a Herculean task and it would have been impossible without the dogs . |
| 29 | By the end of the eighteenth century , the seaside resorts were undergoing the first stages of the process that was to transform the seaside holiday from an exclusive upper-class recreation into a national institution . |
| 30 | Mandy Rice-Davies and Christine Keeler 's revelations about the seamy underbelly of England 's public life rocked the government and effectively ended the Tory Party patriarchy : ‘ The upper-class … image of Mr Macmillan himself had acted as a catalyst for all the aggression that was to unleash the New England of Mr Wilson and the Beatles . ’ |