Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This connection between economic performance , marriage , and fertility , perhaps the best known empirical association in social science , then worked through the ‘ valve ’ of marriage : delaying marriage or avoiding it was the only practical way of controlling births . |
| 2 | Not only , therefore , was William party to the decision to request continuation of the supervision order , but he now looks back and agrees it was the right decision . |
| 3 | He smelt the scent of the roses , and realised it was the first time he had walked here , the first time he had looked at them , in four years . |
| 4 | She regarded him suspiciously , and realised it was the best he was going to do for her . |
| 5 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 6 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
| 7 | I just turned round and says mine was the cheapest price anyway ! |
| 8 | ‘ The chairman of the bench denies falling asleep and says it was the way he was sitting in his chair , ’ he said . |
| 9 | While the scrubbing was done Mrs Morey found an occupation which would involve the children , and going there was the highlight of their lives . |
| 10 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 11 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 12 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 13 | I measured it when it died and confirmed it was the correct species by carrying out various ichthyological classification data , such as scale counts and rin ray counts . |
| 14 | One evening when we were watching the show , I looked around and discovered I was the only person awake in the room . |
| 15 | And guess who was the man involved heading the ball from the chip ; Les Phillips once again laying the ball back to Martin Foyle . |
| 16 | We have only to consider what happened to East Germany and ask what was the underlying reason for secession from the Warsaw pact and reunification with West Germany . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm so sorry — I saw the fire , and thought it was the dining-room . |
| 18 | I 'd already been to the forest couple of times as a student and thought it was the most wonderful place . |
| 19 | They all fancied him and thought he was the handsomest boy they had ever seen … . ’ |
| 20 | Simone Thiroux , the Canadian student so enamoured of Modigliani , was still shadowing him ; by now she was pregnant and claiming he was the father . |
| 21 | Then , on 9 July 1859 ( 11 years later ) Professor Spooner was asked to report to the governors on the state of the fund , and to ascertain who were the current trustees . |
| 22 | You could live your whole life in some tiny place and think it was the whole world . |
| 23 | So some bright spark produced small tasty jam-filled doughnuts and said THEY were the missing holes . |
| 24 | Then she apologised for her mask , which was indeed extraordinary , and said it was the custom of her people . |
| 25 | ‘ Friends , many of them believers , came up afterwards and said it was the most beautiful funeral they had ever been to . |
| 26 | One leading UFF figure in the area last week referred to a gun attack on a house in Jamaica Street in the Ardoyne area on St. Patrick 's night and said it was the intention to kill anyone in the house . |
| 27 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 28 | He offered a hand of reconciliation to whites and said it was the ANC 's job , as the country 's biggest political force , to address national unity and nation building . |
| 29 | The Federation of Small Businesses reacted positively to the Budget and said it was the result of the Chancellor 's meeting its representatives and listening to what they were saying . |
| 30 | One widow wrote to thank the organisers and said it was the most moving service she had ever attended . |