Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courtyard was surrounded by what were presumably the inner walls of the palace . |
| 2 | you were right the first time . |
| 3 | ‘ No … you were right the first time : what happened between us was a dreadful mistake … unplanned . |
| 4 | No , you were right the first time boy ! |
| 5 | These were much the best performances I have heard from him , and say a lot for the state of Horndean , Petersfield and Rogate Choral Societies , from whom the Festival Chorus were drawn . |
| 6 | George 's rooms were on the first floor ; they had the traditional stolidity of a steak and kidney pie and were much the same colour . |
| 7 | We were much the same age and more like sisters than cousins , really . ’ |
| 8 | Beyond doubt the Maldive Islands in the Bay of Bengal were much the richest source in southern Asia at the time of the Arab and Portuguese domination of the Indian Ocean . |
| 9 | On the contrary , they saw the empire as the basis of Britain 's claim to world power status , and their commitment to exporting self-government — which they wrote about as if it were merely the current expression of the British administrative genius — was secondary to this . |
| 10 | Impassioned sequences in which the " poetry " consisted of nothing more than strings of synonyms were merely the extreme example of a tendency that was apparent throughout the work . |
| 11 | Sepulveda justified the enslavement of the Indians on the grounds that they were the natural slaves mentioned in Book I of Aristotle 's Politics ; the Dominican Friar Las Casas admitted the frailty of the Indians but argued that they were all the more children of God owing to their very lack of capacity and skill , which still implies a sort of sub-humanity but of a different kind . |
| 12 | These were apparently the two qualities which Mr Alfred Bestall attributed to the character of Rupert the Bear which he drew for more than 30 years . |
| 13 | There was a smaller executive body of fifteen , and three of these fifteen were apparently the yearly heads of the state . |
| 14 | We were apparently the last straw . |
| 15 | But there were only the familiar guard towers , the blunted edge of the City 's walls , the setting sun . |
| 16 | Cos they were only the real areas lacking and the I 'm quite high on the complete finisher , whereby |
| 17 | These were only the official words setting it out in writing . |
| 18 | He said the changes were only the first step in a longer plan for the building , a former cinema . |
| 19 | The fly-by-night theologies of the ‘ death of God ’ and ‘ magic mushrooms ’ were only the anarchic end of a serious attack by modern scholarship upon the presuppositions of biblical faith and credal affirmation ( see chapter eight ) . |
| 20 | At home , I would go on long walks , which were less the contemplative rambles I had previously enjoyed than frantic attempts to keep the body going , to keep the machine working . |
| 21 | Markers , the first of which were perhaps the surveying staffs themselves , were put in place to guide travellers . |
| 22 | These were perhaps the finest expressions of American station-building . |
| 23 | His three fours in an over from Gladstone Small were perhaps the statistical highlight , but it was his running between the wickets that really caught the eye . |
| 24 | The only fact that now seemed beyond doubt was that Syria and Iran were obviously the two countries who were crucial to getting all the hostages released , whoever was actually holding them . |
| 25 | ( £43 and £115 were obviously the other notches . ) |
| 26 | Léonie and Thérèse were down the other end , putting on their boots . |
| 27 | The American trade figures were generally the high moment of the month . |
| 28 | We must remember , too , that Dissenters in the 18th century were not the political revolutionaries they had been in the 17th — there was a sense in which the rabid Nonconformity of one generation became the established respectability of the next , and commentators like Halevy have suggested that it was precisely the innate conservatism of the new dissent , Methodism , which helped stave off revolution in England in the early 19th century — a real opium of the people , in effect . |
| 29 | The 330 replies showed that 22 servicemen had died of reticuloendothelia system neoplasms ( cancers ) , and another five dead men had a history of such diseases although they were not the primary cause of death . |
| 30 | They were not the shabby workmen , but were dressed in what looked like blue and white satin . |