Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1909 then , Picasso and Braque had initiated the first phase of Cubism ; the art which both painters were producing was the result of a new freedom which arose from their having discarded all scientific systems and theories . |
| 2 | What the tabloids were seeking was the opportunity to juxtapose a patriot with a traitor . |
| 3 | The most important issue on which doubts were raised was the role of the United States in the proposed League of Nations , set up largely through Wilson 's persistent efforts in Paris . |
| 4 | Liberals were left to pretend that what they were saying was the fruit not of compromise but of virtue . |
| 5 | We can not , of course , be confident at this stage that such differences as were found are the product of any one variety of team organization . |
| 6 | The only people ( or so I thought ) who were miffed were the council members of the European Athletic Association , steeped in their protocol . |
| 7 | What they were requesting was the co-operation of the Chilean Navy Yard in installing steel bits strong enough to ensure that the hawser did not again tear itself free . |
| 8 | But she was n't seeing the chimney pots or the river ; what she was seeing were the clothes in her wardrobe , those beautiful clothes . |
| 9 | Rather , what was emphasized was the family as the source of conjugal love , happiness and companionship , within which sexual and emotional relations between husband and wife played a valid part . |
| 10 | Er , the only authority that was given was the authority to arm the officers by Mr which he would have put in to writing , er he was aware as to the method of entry to the of the flat but that no authority , no written authority was given for that . |
| 11 | She was learning something new every day , and David was enjoying being the teacher just as much as Jenny loved being the pupil . |
| 12 | It does raise a very important matter because in the B C C I inquiry , it was quite obvious er that parts of Price Waterhouse were n't fully aware of what other parts of Pri Price Waterhouse were doing and indeed worse than that and in fairness to Price Waterhouse , some of the regulators in different parts of the world did n't know what each other w w were doing and the only people that did know what was happening were the principals behind B C C I who exploited that situation . |
| 13 | The parcel with which I was presented was the size of a largish shoe-box and surprisingly heavy . |
| 14 | What was needed was the kind of laws and regulations , and tax structure , that would make the market society work , or allow it to work , and the kind of state services — defence , and even military expansion , education , sanitation , and various sorts of assistance to industry , such as tariffs and grants for railway development that were thought necessary to make the system run efficiently and profitably . |
| 15 | This was the basic reason for Britain 's poor investment record and profitability , and what was needed was the release of resources from the unproductive areas in order to rebuild the productive base . |
| 16 | The place where that service was performed was the place where the sub-licensee did what the grant enabled him to do without being stopped by the taxpayer . |
| 17 | In essence , what was envisaged was the construction of internal management systems around the hierarchical command structures characteristic of government departments ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 18 | It is considered that only a solicitor can act Mr reward as an agent , as was thought was the position under the 1959 Act . |
| 19 | The suit she was wearing was the colour and texture of sacking , a foreign-looking suit somehow with those buttoned pockets , but the ticket collector was willing to bet it had n't cost a penny less than forty guineas . |
| 20 | Paradoxically , the ‘ surreptitious alliance between the press and the government ’ which Asquith was criticizing was the norm and not the exception what he implied it was . |
| 21 | The trousers he was holding were the ones he 'd been wearing at Streatley the previous weekend . |
| 22 | Yes , she was saying was the lady that they erm er |
| 23 | Robyn took the sheets , holding them shakingly between her fingers , and read enough of the typewritten lines to know that what Luke was saying was the truth . |
| 24 | If a theft was involved were the goods given back ? |
| 25 | THE MOST interesting thing about the way the Immediate label was run was the fact that , as this set proves , it really did n't have much more of an idea what was hot and what was not than the majors it was supposed to supplant . |
| 26 | I consulted the programme and discovered that what I was regarding was the rose garden of an English country house , circa 1922 . |
| 27 | Slowly , the tears dried up , and all that was left was the sense of emptiness . |
| 28 | All that was left was the relay , with heats on the Saturday , the penultimate day of the Championships . |
| 29 | and all that was left was the frame . |
| 30 | During the interviews I tried to probe whether what was meant was the ageing of the population , a change of atmosphere , the community 's material demise or what ; but on occasion I had to guess at what the informant really meant . |