Example sentences of "[was/were] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were you the only person fishing in Hills Bay ? |
| 2 | Were they the only agent or were there other agents ? |
| 3 | The moral discourses of purity feminism were neither a reactionary barrier to feminist progress nor were they the simple expression of militant feminist consciousness . |
| 4 | Now what were they the other week from |
| 5 | Was I the best judge ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? ? |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | When I where was I the other day ? |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Erm h was she the same age as he was or y or younger or How old was your mother ? |
| 13 | Was she the third person , whose presence he had always sensed ? |
| 14 | His achievement was thus in a real sense an imaginative one , and so much was he the right man in the right place at the right time that his procedures and opinions were never seriously gainsaid . |
| 15 | ‘ Not only was he the outstanding leader of our tax practice , ’ said Grant Thornton managing partner David McDonnell , ‘ he was also the architect of its development in the early days . |
| 16 | Was he the was he the only singer- songwriter in the country or something then ? |
| 17 | Nor was he the only imperialist of his day of whom it might have been said , as one of his biographers said of him , that he had ‘ a genius for backing into the limelight ’ . |
| 18 | Did Cook achieve all this without competition , was he the only excursion agent in business in the second half of the nineteenth century ? |
| 19 | Was he the only son ? |
| 20 | Was he the real reason for her still being a widow ? |
| 21 | Was he the bloody-handed slayer stalking his victims ? |
| 22 | By far the most famous of these clerical judges is Henry Bracton : he died in 1268 as chancellor of Exeter cathedral , but he had served in the meanwhile as a justice in eyre , a judge on assize , and from 1248 to 1257 on the King 's Bench and on the king 's council ; his fame rests on the fact that not only was he the foremost jurist of his age and possessed of an extensive and precise knowledge of Roman law but he was also credited with the authorship of The Laws and Customs of England which became — in the words of Dorothy Stenton — ‘ the Bible of the coming legal generation ’ . |
| 23 | As of when was he the feminist gospel . |
| 24 | Nor was it the only way in which he was inadequate as a Christian ruler . |
| 25 | Nor was it the only deduction : there were charges for seaming the stockings , for use of a corner of the master knitter 's workshop , for needles , candles , oil , coals and for the expenses involved in collecting in work . |
| 26 | Was it the open-topped car ? |
| 27 | You were seen down there , Major , has the cat got your tongue ? — or was it the Private Office ? ’ |
| 28 | There were many more than two hundred behind that large banner , so was it the wisest move ? |
| 29 | Is it d was it the like kind of situation where you 're gon na have to carry it on so that he |
| 30 | Was it the Labour party , operating behind the scenes ? |