Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , those who were to piece together the events at the camp of the early months of that year , from the time of snow till the approach of spring , were to wonder what was the ambition of Michael Holly , prisoner of Hut 2 in Zone I of Camp 3 in the Dubrovlag complex . |
| 2 | If further proof were needed it is the formation of the joint Johnson & Johnson-Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals Co itself . |
| 3 | ‘ If a gentleman of education , without legal training , were asked what is the meaning of a ‘ trust for charitable purposes ’ I think he would most probably reply ‘ That sounds like a legal phrase . |
| 4 | After all , it we were to ask which was the more metaphysical , divine law or the psychoanalytic unconscious , some might reply , ‘ the unconscious , though not by much ’ . |
| 5 | Bavarian reports spoke of ‘ paralysing horror ’ at the news , and-with typical exaggeration — of a mood comparable to that of 1917 , while others commented that workers were thinking it was the beginning of the end of the Party and the Third Reich , and that rumours were abroad about disturbances in Munich . |
| 6 | Then , suddenly we were discussing what was the best revolver to buy at the weekend , because the campesinos were going Communist again . |
| 7 | What was to heal them was the act of obedience to what God had said , and faith in what he had said . |
| 8 | ALL THAT WAS GIVEN ME WAS THE MATTER OF THREE SCENES , AND THE CENTRAL IDEA OF A VOLUNTARY CHANGE BECOMING INVOLUNTARY . |
| 9 | And , of course , when a crime was reported they were the ones who had to notify the Parquet in the first place . |
| 10 | The response — on the day it was revealed she was the voice on the tape — was as staggering as it was overwhelmingly a vote for the Princess . |
| 11 | Georgia Griffiths ' drugs charges attracted national attention when it was revealed she was the daughter of a court recorder … and the crown court case had to be moved to Birmingham because the Oxford judge knew her father . |
| 12 | Oh yes I I mean the Irish Water Spaniel well well we got ours because I was told it was the most intelligent dog in the world . |
| 13 | Oh yeah so I was going what 's the perviest place ? |
| 14 | The task they were set was to decide which were the oldest buildings in the street . |
| 15 | As the external surface of the field collided with the elements of space , an explosive force was generated which was the equivalent of that produced by an ion bomb . |
| 16 | By the time he was demobbed he was the nearest thing to a genius when handling the military gadgetry of radio signals and wireless telephony that the army produced . |
| 17 | When Fokine was asked who was the male figure in Les Sylphides he replied : ‘ Perhaps he is Love himself in a romantic , nostalgic mood . |
| 18 | The proper approach was to ascertain what were the operations which produced the relevant profits , and where those operations took place . |
| 19 | She wanted to tell him that she had n't meant a word she had said , but if she did he would think she was hoping he was the rich man she had talked about . |
| 20 | ‘ I was thinking what 's the point you lying in the sun if you swathe yourself up like a woman in purdah . |
| 21 | ‘ I was thinking she 's the sort who encourages crime . |
| 22 | And they were tiny and we tied them in wee bunches and it was Miss who was the teacher then and she made a cross and put |
| 23 | As it was spinning which was the first textile process to be mechanised , it was women 's work which was the first to be taken away by machinery , threatened by the water frame in 1769 and by Hargreaves ' spinning jenny in 1770 , even before Crompton 's mule came into use in the 1780s . |
| 24 | If anything was missing it was the special 's responsibility to ask for it , and ask fast . |