Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were you the only person fishing in Hills Bay ? |
| 2 | Sea trials began in November 1924 and were everything the wind-tunnel experiments had promised . |
| 3 | Were they the only people that used to use it like that ? |
| 4 | Elections were not the only occasions when those below the level of the elite could give voice to their political inclinations , nor were they the only points of contact between the world " out-of-doors " and that of Westminster . |
| 5 | Were they the only agent or were there other agents ? |
| 6 | The moral discourses of purity feminism were neither a reactionary barrier to feminist progress nor were they the simple expression of militant feminist consciousness . |
| 7 | Now what were they the other week from |
| 8 | Not only were they the longest hours they had ever been called upon to endure , but the coldest . |
| 9 | Societies of boys were what the public schools essentially remained , with the masters forming no more than a thin crust of adult authority . |
| 10 | However , there was nothing the elderly woman could have done to prevent her departure with the two children , who had been clearly delighted to be leaving their grandmother 's house . |
| 11 | It must have begun to seem that there was nothing the British film producer could do to challenge the place of American films on the nation 's screens . |
| 12 | Was I the best judge ? |
| 13 | Nor was I the innocent bystander taking his lunchtime beer in his local , to whom Shmekov slipped the information , two hours before the police grabbed him , that altered the Alliance 's whole strategy towards the opposing ’ powers in the Southern Apex . |
| 14 | If there was one ( albeit very small ) consolation about the sale of Dave Batty , it was that it finally did away with an important inferiority complex of mine — was I the only person in West Yorkshire not to be best mates with the man ? ? |
| 15 | Er it was I the only thing that that brought it to mind was Ann herself stumbled over it as she said it you know playwright |
| 16 | When I where was I the other day ? |
| 17 | He was himself the first discoverer of that ‘ morbidity of temperament ’ . |
| 18 | The awful thing was that all this time Lewis had never had any doubts he was himself the new owner of Wyvis Hall . |
| 19 | John Harlow , appointed in 1560 , was himself the local vicar and his candidature was approved by the parishioners ; when the Goldsmiths examined him , they declared themselves satisfied without noting his qualifications and without recourse to external referees . |
| 20 | He explained to me that the interview had been cancelled on the order of his superiors — and he was himself the head librarian ! |
| 21 | Held , dismissing both appeals , the tape recording of an interview was itself the primary exhibit , although as a matter of convenience it was usual for the prosecution , with the consent of the defence , to provide an abbreviated transcript of its contents for the use of the court and the jury . |
| 22 | In the same letter to Katkov Dostoevsky also claimed that the murder was itself the merest peg ; ‘ I am only taking the accomplished fact ’ ; and he went on to assert that the human type ‘ which corresponds to this crime ’ was the creature of his imagination . |
| 23 | The curved orbit was itself the natural path . ’ |
| 24 | Was she the only person in the world who felt that love was too precious a commodity to cheapen by offering it as a stake in a game where the prize was emotional titillation ? |
| 25 | Not only was she the first female to break through the glass ceiling in Engineering , but to become a star throughout the company because she did the job with such panache ? |
| 26 | Erm h was she the same age as he was or y or younger or How old was your mother ? |
| 27 | Was she the third person , whose presence he had always sensed ? |
| 28 | It was something the competitive society logically needed … |
| 29 | Nor was there the usual rise in ammonia or nitrite levels , as there had been in the past . |
| 30 | Nor , at this stage , was there the slightest question of any social revolution from below ; change , Republicans and Socialists agreed , should come democratically . |