Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major unions involved were the General Confederation of Greek Workers ( GSEE ) and the Federation of Civil Servants ' Unions ( Adedy ) . |
| 2 | Swam is the only word . |
| 3 | The other fun competition that I entered was the same idea but it is played in the dark you use a special ball which is slightly transparent there is a hole in the middle of the ball which a lightstick goes through . |
| 4 | One of thems one of the er the gateways I just mentioned was the Open Server for Kix and the mainframe integration . |
| 5 | The type of ball used was the Scottish League 's Mitre Delta . |
| 6 | It was applied by Baulig to Brittany ( 1935 ) and seemed to work quite well as the basic map used was the old French 1:80 000 hachured map which had plenty of spot heights often on flattish summits or spurs . |
| 7 | These files are indexed by the use of BDAM ( Basic Direct Access Method ) and in a typical database of just over 2 Gbytes , which they found was the average size of those they examined , the number of characters in the files comprising the database was as follows : |
| 8 | But all Mrs Ullman found was the intimidating bulk of three police constables . |
| 9 | The greatest danger we found was the distinct possibility of repetitive overeating . |
| 10 | all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this |
| 11 | No doubt there 'd been the usual spate of Friday night burglaries , too . |
| 12 | It had never counted for anything that she 'd been the innocent victim , that she 'd had no control over the events which had shaped her life — she 'd carried the burden with her , locked into her soul , and at least that way she 'd felt relatively safe . |
| 13 | ‘ He was glad that Sigarup had come , because up to now he 'd been the only patient staying and , alone at night , he was terrified of ghosts — of the restless souls of all the people who must have died there , far from their homes and families . ’ |
| 14 | If there 'd been the least sign of magical activity we 'd know about it . ’ |
| 15 | That 'd been the big question . |
| 16 | And , of course , she 'd seen him before ; he 'd been the third man on the commission that had interviewed her , the one who 'd sat next to the Cheka 's doctor and who 'd listened to her slurred responses without ever saying anything . |
| 17 | He 'd been the main front-man each evening . |
| 18 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |
| 19 | The calls had come from a call-box because there 'd been the call-box signal before the money was put in . |
| 20 | Increasingly , skilled counterfeiting has led to some high street stores selling goods they believed were the real thing , only to find they 'd been had . |
| 21 | Colonel David Stirling was so alarmed at what he believed was the dubious ability of the government to cope with a major strike affecting essential services that he turned to the possibility of forming a private force of military and other experts to assist the civil authorities . |
| 22 | Up to the 1970s it was presumed to be proceeding towards the beech high forest which ecologists believed was the stable climax on limestone . |
| 23 | That was until Norman Tebbit spotted what he believed was the biggest chance of holing the impenetrable protective layer around the bill . |
| 24 | What jarred was the pugnacious self-justification : ‘ If the world condemns us , to hell with them . |
| 25 | The ironic , cynical tone that Nizan adopted was the visible sign of an effort to master a situation which was otherwise uncontrollable . |
| 26 | She set off towards what she imagined was the outer door , intending to walk in the open , but in a moment she had somehow lost herself in the maze of corridors . |
| 27 | One student had a Citroen Visa , which I immediately assumed was the GTi version — Peugeot 205 kit in a Peugeot 104 chassis — and the sort of lukewarm hatch I can just about afford now . |
| 28 | The teachers at Howard were given government grants for their work but the money they received was the standard Salvation Army allowance . |
| 29 | ‘ Pray tell Dr Heatherton that I called , ’ he said , but all the reply he received was the same cold , formal bow the daughter had made . |
| 30 | ‘ What happened was the first recurrence of an experience she had not had since she was a child . |