Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , it was in the ordinary conduct of party politics by men in pursuit of power that expectations , aspirations and objectives were reduced to an apparent simplicity , to a crudity of choice for which all that could be said was that it represented the national will . |
| 2 | What happened was that I did the work and received not a word from anybody about it . |
| 3 | What Lord Wilberforce was saying was that one examines the content and not the form of a restraint and if there appears 'some quite independent purpose " behind the restraint , ie a purpose outside the essence of the agreement , then the doctrine applies . |
| 4 | so all I knew was that she got the divorce and |
| 5 | Of course she knew that Silas had inherited this property , but what she had n't realised was that I have the right to live in the house for my lifetime , or until I happen to marry again . |