Example sentences of "[det] was [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheapness , comfort , and convenience seemed to be the most obvious explanations of the mass response but this was to ignore the films themselves . |
| 2 | This was to misconceive the ways in which the theories of natural science can ever link with theory about human action and behaviour . |
| 3 | One way of doing this was to tie the ankles together and to pinion the arms against the side of the corpse with the waist-band of the shroud . |
| 4 | The effect of this was to make the personnel of the Court of Napoleon III somewhat heterogeneous , for many of the Orléanist nobility were prepared to use the Tuileries , consoling themselves with the thought that the Emperor 's half-brother , the Duke de Morny , was held still to be faithful to Orléanist principles . |
| 5 | One of Hollywood 's major strategies in the face of all this was to recreate the hits of the past in larger-than-life packs and Burton was useful for that . |
| 6 | This was to assist the layers of the king 's soul to break free and find their proper places , so as not to encumber his final space-flight . |
| 7 | He uses a set formula : ‘ this was to fulfil the words spoken through the prophet ’ ( Matt. |
| 8 | As Jesus says of him : ‘ I have watched over them and not one is lost except the one who chose to be lost , and this was to fulfil the scriptures . ’ |
| 9 | It included the need to separate officers from other ranks , and to place them in separate confinement ( the intention of this was to prevent the officers from leading their followers in opposition to the repatriations ) . |
| 10 | However this was to underestimate the sensitivities of newly-independent States . |
| 11 | All this was to prepare the men for their first actual jump from an aircraft . |
| 12 | That was feeding the pigs or the . |
| 13 | Erm well the solution to that was to hold the meetings of the General Assembly , where the hostile American majority was , but not to permit a vote to be taken on any resolution and this meant that President Johnson could pursue his , his then secret plan of bombing the north without any hostile United Nations resolution being passed against it . |
| 14 | Erm well the solution to that was to hold the meetings of the General Assembly , where the hostile American majority was , but not to permit a vote to be taken on any resolution and this meant that President Johnson could pursue his , his then secret plan of bombing the north without any hostile United Nations resolution being passed against it . |
| 15 | That was taking the clips off and clipping the wagons on . |
| 16 | That was thinning the neeps . |
| 17 | But that did n't keep the rats off the the The rats went in supposing but er that was to keep the stacks aired . |
| 18 | Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses . |
| 19 | That was making the invoices out for the parcel . |