Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was what lay at the centre of the metaphysical speculations often pursued by the Symbolists . |
| 2 | The scheme was funded out of general taxation , though an element of payment for the health service remained in the national insurance contribution , creating a confusing illusion that this was what paid for the service . |
| 3 | Maybe this was what happened to most people . |
| 4 | This was what happened to women . |
| 5 | And this was what happened in the Falklands . |
| 6 | And this was what happened in the 1960s and 1970s — the subject of the next chapter . |
| 7 | Still , I suppose this was what happened in the Middle Ages . |
| 8 | Yet that was what went into the archaeologist 's notebook : ‘ … appears to be a man … one vertebrae directly east of the head … ’ |
| 9 | What it did make possible was stalemate ; and that was what happened in the 1540s . |
| 10 | That was what happened in 1984 when Renault 's Formula 1 programme fell into disarray the season after it had just been pipped at the final post by the Brabham-BMW team . |
| 11 | Erm it 's , it 's , negative numbers are n't a natural thing , fractions are actually easier and that was what happened in the history of mathematics , fractions were developed a long long time before negative numbers , the old Greeks used to play about with fractions quite a lot . |