Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [was/were] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only remarkable thing about me was the fact that I was still doing a holiday job at the age of forty . |
| 2 | Social issues , which between them were the subject of almost a fifth of the courses , accounted for only 9 per cent of the total number of teacher-days : they tended to be short , workshop-style courses with few participants . |
| 3 | A difference between them was the existence in Belgium of two racial groups , the Flemings and the Walloons . |
| 4 | The jealousy between them was the talk of the Court at the time . |
| 5 | Indeed , the possible conjunction of the northern Anglian princes and Domnall Brecc in the same area could imply that an alliance between Angles and Scots or at least concerted action between them was the key to Anglian success in north Britain in the reign of Oswald . |
| 6 | The highlights for me were the climax of Britannia 's stately progress through the Fleet lines and my own personal visit to the reception for Commanding Officers on board Britannia during the evening . |
| 7 | So the main elements for me were the thought process the cluster and the playback . |
| 8 | ‘ The main attraction for me was the court work . |
| 9 | That was important , but much more important for me was the message that crofting , which I had seen as a hang-over , an anachronism , had enduring values I had not previously recognised . |
| 10 | Lying in bed , looking at the stiff poses in the pictures , I began to want to see the living reality — and the only reality to begin with for me was the singing that I heard through my sickroom window . |
| 11 | It is impossible to describe all the uplifting and thought-provoking sessions we had at the Farm , but an especially wonderful experience for me was the fantasy meditation . |
| 12 | The only thing that ruined the game for me was the time it took to load each room . |
| 13 | A big disappointment for me was the fact that Ron was n't there . |
| 14 | Even more exciting for me was the news that our Principal , Reg Clarke , had decided to entrust me with the command of the first of the 1.5 million pound cruisers to be named Searcher . |
| 15 | The next danger for me was the Arête . |
| 16 | Below them was the farm , the orchards , the fields . |
| 17 | One of them was the hen with the neck feathers missing . |
| 18 | But her very virtues carried their own faults , and not the least of them was the possibility of her being upset by matters she could not understand . |
| 19 | One of them was the influence of ‘ public opinion ’ on policy . |
| 20 | By and large , these and other regional officers ' reports from the second wave of evacuation did not indicate that the outcry of September 1939 was justified ; typical of them was the verdict of one officer in October 1940 that ‘ the general standard of those evacuated is good and 80% of them should offer no difficulty at all in billeting ’ . |
| 21 | One of them was the lady with him in this picture , Bessie Yendley , who became his fiance . |
| 22 | In the midst of them was the Baroness . |
| 23 | ‘ This is what it is all about really ’ , said one of the clowns , handing me a bun just before he dashed across to the pub car park where they all lined up in order to be judged which of them was the best-dressed ( he was , incidentally ) . |
| 24 | The thing that delighted both of them was the time they had achieved — 54 minutes to complete 10 miles of very tricky going . |
| 25 | One of them was the mountain chicken , emitting a discreet , woof . |
| 26 | One of them was the mini-buffet , first introduced in 1980 on the Waterloo-Exeter run . |
| 27 | Two feet in front of them was the catwalk , a bare narrow wooden platform angling away from a curtained entrance . |
| 28 | It was clear which of them was the leader — broad-shouldered and heavily built , he lifted the knife menacingly and said , ‘ Where d' you keep it ? |
| 29 | The only pleasant aspect of them was the fact that the chief method of communication was by finger-spelling . " |
| 30 | One of them was the fact that housing associations ask for the keys is or ask for notification up to a month in advance of the fact that someone 's going to leave and that is not something which in terms of our stock , we find practical to do . |