Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | and what happened was the Japanese production bloke he was doing it all himself the lot |
| 32 | This small shard of antiquarian knowledge which he claimed was the precise location of the hill , the peak in Darién , from which Vasco Núñez de Balboa was reputed to have first glimpsed the Pacific Ocean on the morning of Tuesday , 27 September 1513 . |
| 33 | His beatification aroused criticism from some Catholics not only because of the relatively short time that had elapsed since his death , but also because of what they claimed was the right-wing content of his views . |
| 34 | Turning to the parliamentary review programmes , new programmes that started when televising began were the daily round-up programmes on the business of the previous day , BBC2 's Westminster and ITN 's Westminster Programme ; there were also two weekly programmes on Sundays , BBC2 's Westminster Week and Channel 4 's A Week in Politics . |
| 35 | The transport arranged was the same taxi-driver who had brought them from the airport . |
| 36 | What followed was the only bit of gamesmanship you could accuse Lee Trevino of . |
| 37 | The defendant met the vendor 's valuer and agreed the valuation of the goodwill on what the plaintiff alleged was the wrong basis . |
| 38 | Her ability to repeat what she heard was the only language task which she could perform at all well . |
| 39 | It 's what I decided was the best idea all round . |
| 40 | He saw the knowledge in her face that he was already chairman — all he needed was the official confirmation . |
| 41 | And all you needed was the brief message that you had to send . |
| 42 | What survived was the crucial safety rule banning work before the entire district is checked . |
| 43 | Thomson also wrote Europe since Napoleon ( 1957 ) and a World History from 1914 to 1968 ( 1969 , 1st edn. to 1950 , 1954 ) , while among the books that he edited was the controversial volume xii of the Cambridge Modern History . |
| 44 | Among 20 others acquitted was the former Minister for Tourism , José Aspiras . |
| 45 | The point they selected was the western extremity of the Verdun salient , between the villages of Malancourt and Avocourt , where the front swung south through the tip of the Forest of Hesse . |
| 46 | The name he called was the inevitable name . |
| 47 | The means employed was the sworn inquest , the ancient Carolingian legal procedure for establishing the facts of a case by procuring statements on oath . |
| 48 | More emphatic and repeated was the steady attempt to refine the habits of the lower orders by repressing the more brutal of their popular recreations , an uphill battle in which many Sussex gentry were involved from mid-century onwards . |
| 49 | Well a thing called power handshakes , which I thought were the biggest load of gobbledegook until I watched them , a specific chat show host . |
| 50 | Moreover , since the class groups which most of these youth represented were the working class — those most marginalised by dominant middle class culture — these sub-cultural activities could be interpreted as a form of rebellion , a way of fighting back . |
| 51 | The clue to what he meant is the last sentence from Lewis : ‘ The lines and masses of a statue are its soul ’ . |
| 52 | MARGARET Forster completed what she thought was the final draft of her biography of Daphne du Maurier in April 1992 and had dispatched it to the publisher . |
| 53 | It took Quiss longer than he had expected to get to the castle kitchens ; they 'd changed some of the corridors and stairways en route from the games room to the lower levels , and Quiss , taking what he thought was the usual way , had found himself making an unexpected left turn and coming to a windy , deserted , echoing chamber which looked out over the white landscape to the tall wooden towers of the slate mines . |
| 54 | He had said what he thought was the decent thing to say , and had it chucked back at him . |
| 55 | But if a matter came to a head that withdrawing my labour was the only way to resolve it , that I thought was the only way to resolve it , I 'd go out and do it again . |
| 56 | He began to run in what he thought was the right direction , but he did n't recognise any of the buildings . |
| 57 | And what I thought was the prettiest sight in Hannah 's meadows was the Geranium sylvaticum , or hay sward , which is a beautiful blue with a tinge of violet . |
| 58 | Was it , I wondered , his natural reaction to something extraordinary , and did he therefore use it on the stage , or was he simply acting and registering what he thought was the appropriate emotion under the circumstances ? |
| 59 | At 11.00 he found what he thought was the relevant passage in Vico . |
| 60 | so then the very time he went in I you know , took did n't say anything at all I thought was the best thing . |