Example sentences of "have [verb] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the biggest , and most satisfying , projects has organised was the roof work in Gallery 18 — Victorian Engineering . |
| 2 | I walked through Dublin in nineteen seventy four in May , the worst single atrocity that has happened was the bombing of Dublin . |
| 3 | What she 'd said was the nearest to regret and apology I ever heard from a malai . |
| 4 | Er you see the the wireless that we 'd got was the old cats whisker on a crystal , you see , and a pair of earphones that we used to And if anybody rustled a paper , you see ? |
| 5 | Tremayne bore the jokes with reasonable fortitude , cheered by the absence of enquiry or even remarks from the Jockey Club , not even strictures about ‘ bringing racing into disrepute ’ , which I 'd learned was the yardstick for in-house punishment . |
| 6 | Another person the people in St Aldate 's would have seen was the kings nephew , Prince Rupert , erm only 23 but one of the King 's major assets , a brilliant cavalry commander . |
| 7 | Among the controversial issues which any negotiations would have to address were the following [ see also p. 36837 for so-called " Harare declaration " on ANC proposals for future negotiations , and p. 36912 for earlier policy guidelines ] : ( i ) nationalization : in press interviews in the days following his release , Mandela had reasserted the ANC 's stated policy of nationalizing certain sectors of the economy , including mines — this immediately provoked sharp falls on South African financial markets [ see also p. 37176 ] ; ( ii ) the armed struggle : Mandela had refused to renounce this policy , repeating on Feb. 14 that government installations were legitimate targets for sabotage [ ibid. ] ; ( iii ) power-sharing : the government and the ANC still appeared to be a long way apart on interpretation — the ANC for its part was not prepared to accept an arrangement similar to the current tri-cameral parliament ; ( iv ) sanctions : Mandela had already stated that " the conditions for which sanctions are being applied still exist " and thus there was no need for a review of the question [ for UK Prime Minister 's unilateral decision to break EC agreement on voluntary sanctions see below ] . |
| 8 | Once or twice they followed a track that simply petered out , as though it had never been ; but always , when they returned they found the path she should have chosen was the path the man with the staff had been down before them . |
| 9 | What the hacks should have contemplated was the truly telling detail of Senna at race one in Phoenix . |
| 10 | Amongst the murders which he was alleged to have orchestrated was the killing of his predecessor , Paul Castellano , in 1985 . |
| 11 | In retrospect , what Essays in Criticism seems to have represented was the institutional absorption after the War of the so-called " critical revolution " of the interwar period , and the professionalisation of what had previously been a more or less oppositional movement within the academy . |
| 12 | ‘ But afterwards , I found that the noise that I had heard was the springing of rivets . |
| 13 | The last thing Hazel had expected was the immediate support of a member of the Owsla . |
| 14 | In line with what we had expected was the finding that establishments where the level of output , the amount of overtime being worked and the number of persons employed was falling were rather less likely to be using fixed-term contract workers . |
| 15 | What had mattered was the here and now . |
| 16 | The place that my landlord had recommended was the Palace Hotel . |
| 17 | No one present would have disputed that but the feeling was that all we had seen was the closing of one chapter of a story in which there is much more to come . |
| 18 | The functional lump he had seen was the first to disappear into Pete 's mouth . |
| 19 | And the only pictures in the house that she had seen were the sentimental , old-fashioned print in her room and Finn 's dog over the mantelpiece , which a child might have painted and hung up , to show off . |
| 20 | I was able to correct him ; what he had seen were the crowds of prisoners ! |
| 21 | Everything he had said was the truth , and against her will , soft tears slid down her cheeks . |
| 22 | The eighteenth century is often referred to as the Age of Reason ; most people believed that the world that Newton and Locke had made was the real world . |
| 23 | The friends she had made were the dependable , kindly sort of people whose company would give her pleasure and support in the years to come , as their affection towards her , in these last few terrible weeks , had shown so clearly . |
| 24 | Hume 's solution to what he had decided was the problem was the re-introduction , in a form suitable for a more politically evolved society , of the binding power of personal contact . |
| 25 | Sometimes it seemed that those who had profited most successfully form the bonanza that he Shah had unleashed were the first to go -with members of the Pahlavi dynasty leading the rush tot he exit . |
| 26 | But what Brown had overlooked was the First Rule of the Conventional Car Maker : sell as many of the same cars as you can in order to make the most money for the least expenditure . |
| 27 | All we had to experience was the trigger and off we went into a state of fear . |
| 28 | He was another butcher , you see , he bought the other cart and my father kept the best , this cart you 've got was the best cart , yeah . |
| 29 | He was in his forty-first year when he entered the House of Commons , six months over the watershed which Joseph Chamberlain , thirty years before , had thought was the limit if a fully effective parliamentary career was not to be precluded . |
| 30 | Jennifer remembered Tristram 's face grinning through the wall , and the firm warm clasp of his hand as he reached through to her ; she remembered a night when the moonlight was like mercury on the trees — and she remembered her own sudden cry of love and joy , which Mrs Prynn had thought was the deadly shriek of a mandrake and which had caused her to go down to the lower scullery to see if Jennifer was safe . |