Example sentences of "was [verb] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All that was found in the tomb chamber when it was excavated was the apparently hasty , late burial in a pit under the floor of an old man and a child . |
| 4 | One of the first systems to which the Schrödinger equation was applied was the simplest atom , hydrogen . |
| 5 | The parcel with which I was presented was the size of a largish shoe-box and surprisingly heavy . |
| 6 | What was needed was the necessary stimulus . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In essence , what was envisaged was the construction of internal management systems around the hierarchical command structures characteristic of government departments ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 11 | It is considered that only a solicitor can act Mr reward as an agent , as was thought was the position under the 1959 Act . |
| 12 | What was looming was the protracted constitutional wrangle over Lloyd-George 's budget and the House of Lords . |
| 13 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The answer is that the earliest attempt to explain the disorder was that the brain regions for understanding and for producing speech were intact , and what was damaged was the neural pathway which conducted information between these two pathways . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If you look at the first page of the appendix B , er the outer route was was called was the blue route so if you look down |
| 18 | What was lacking was the professional overview . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yes , she was saying was the lady that they erm er |
| 21 | What was mocked was the arrogant superiority of the traditionally educated arts man who knew nothing of the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 22 | He strongly suspected that the course of action he was taking was the one that Henri had been about to suggest earlier , before Richmann had walked off . |
| 23 | She knew it was going to hurt like crazy giving up her chances of ever catching a glimpse of Naylor again , but she knew in her heart of hearts that the action she was taking was the only one possible . |
| 24 | He admitted that — from a communist point of view — such a development had great dangers and what was involved was the ‘ competition of economic forms ’ . |
| 25 | Kenneth Horne 's rich , fruity voice and warm patrician manner made him the ideal link man and that , coupled with a mischievous sense of humour , ensured that any programme in which he was involved was the better for his presence . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I consulted the programme and discovered that what I was regarding was the rose garden of an English country house , circa 1922 . |
| 28 | and all that was left was the frame . |
| 29 | All that was left was the relay , with heats on the Saturday , the penultimate day of the Championships . |
| 30 | Slowly , the tears dried up , and all that was left was the sense of emptiness . |