Example sentences of "[vb past] was the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of thems one of the er the gateways I just mentioned was the Open Server for Kix and the mainframe integration . |
| 2 | The type of ball used was the Scottish League 's Mitre Delta . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 : |
| 5 | But all Mrs Ullman found was the intimidating bulk of three police constables . |
| 6 | The greatest danger we found was the distinct possibility of repetitive overeating . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Up to the 1970s it was presumed to be proceeding towards the beech high forest which ecologists believed was the stable climax on limestone . |
| 9 | What jarred was the pugnacious self-justification : ‘ If the world condemns us , to hell with them . |
| 10 | The ironic , cynical tone that Nizan adopted was the visible sign of an effort to master a situation which was otherwise uncontrollable . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As Deborah Gorham has pointed out , what this sort of approach ignored was the very origins of prostitution in the economic system and the opportunities that prostitution offered to young girls as a way out of acute poverty and dismal career possibilities . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The teachers at Howard were given government grants for their work but the money they received was the standard Salvation Army allowance . |
| 15 | and what happened was the Japanese production bloke he was doing it all himself the lot |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | What followed was the only bit of gamesmanship you could accuse Lee Trevino of . |
| 19 | The defendant met the vendor 's valuer and agreed the valuation of the goodwill on what the plaintiff alleged was the wrong basis . |
| 20 | Her ability to repeat what she heard was the only language task which she could perform at all well . |
| 21 | He saw the knowledge in her face that he was already chairman — all he needed was the official confirmation . |
| 22 | And all you needed was the brief message that you had to send . |
| 23 | What survived was the crucial safety rule banning work before the entire district is checked . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The name he called was the inevitable name . |
| 27 | The means employed was the sworn inquest , the ancient Carolingian legal procedure for establishing the facts of a case by procuring statements on oath . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |