Example sentences of "[was/were] the [adj] [noun] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money and how to get hold of it were the perennial problems that refused to go away . |
| 2 | The most spectacular known to me in Europe were the great rock-falls that occurred from tile sheer face of Ramnefjell ( Raven Mountain ) into Loenfjord in central Norway in 1905 and 1936 , producing waves which wiped out local communities and carried a steamer a considerable distance inland . |
| 3 | Within the excised matter were the small particles that remained of eight inches of lower spine , which had come straight through the body and the ventral wall to lodge in the front of the jeans . |
| 4 | The Steen and Jacqui photographs were the only ones that fitted the description . |
| 5 | Appearing on the tape proved too much of a millstone for most bands and The Wedding Present were the only ones that carried on developing at a reasonable pace . |
| 6 | As he stood there , his glittering black eyes were the only feature that identified him as a living creature , and not a darker patch of shadow in the benighted forest . |
| 7 | ‘ And then — this evening , when everyone was so upset … you only thought of her … you went off after her as if she were the only person that mattered to you … |
| 8 | There were rumours that stimulants or ‘ poppers ’ were the only things that kept Dustin going . |
| 9 | Higher grade of histological malignancy ( p<0.01 ) and stage IV disease ( p<0.05 ) were the only variables that influenced mortality . |
| 10 | Where were the classic murders that had once held the attention of the world ? |
| 11 | Er I do n't know whether it were the young lad that comes in , or whether it was Jes that were telling me . |
| 12 | In particular , problems of the calendar were the driving force that led to the initial development of Greek mathematical astronomy in the last decades of the fifth century BC . |
| 13 | In Annie 's personal life , she shows how shallow were the maternal affections that left her children to their fearsome father for the sake of her own freedom to proclaim on atheism and contraception , loudly defended in court . |
| 14 | Even more revolutionary , though , were the social adjustments that needed to be made to accommodate the new masses . |
| 15 | Environmentally it was reasoned that the consequences of State control have often been unpalatable : where were the beautiful cities that had been promised ? |
| 16 | Their antiquated reliance on set-pieces was predictable enough ; less obvious to the scattered crowd of around 10,000 were the penny-pinching circumstances that surrounded this international sponsored by the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 17 | It was the age-old problem that had not been solved since the Populists first went to the people in the 1870s . |
| 18 | It was the unhappy love that taught me most about love 's nature — though not at the time , not until years later . |
| 19 | It was the dark Raybans that made it impossible to tell what he was thinking . |
| 20 | It was the fallen curtain that drew Patrick 's attention . |
| 21 | In Canada the British not only deluded themselves that they had defeated the axiom ; they also imagined it was the federal ingredient that had enabled them to do the trick . |
| 22 | And it was the long shorts that allowed him to wear waist-to-ankle underpants during a game without anyone noticing . |
| 23 | But in his lordship 's day , that room was regularly required , as was the long table that occupied it , to seat thirty or more guests for dinner ; in fact , the banqueting hall is so spacious that when necessity demanded it , further tables were added to the existing one to enable almost fifty to be seated . |
| 24 | One of the joys of late Thatcherism was the spluttering indignation that greeted Lord Mackay 's proposal to modify the Bar 's closed shop and end other antediluvian work practices . |
| 25 | ‘ It was the live side that struck me as being a bit special , ’ he says . |
| 26 | All he seemed to be able to concentrate on was the small dimple that appeared to the left of Julia 's mouth whenever she smiled her rather lopsided smile . |
| 27 | Somehow it was the small flowers that attracted my imagination . |
| 28 | It was the simple questions that proved troublesome , and none of them will now forget who was the local councillor and is now MP for Huntingdon . |
| 29 | Using multiple linear regression analysis , gastritis with atrophy was the only factor that had an independent negative effect on acid secretion . |
| 30 | In actual fact I have bent over backwards , I was the only councillor that went and welcomed one of our new ke tenant farmers quite recently , having been on the agricultural environment protection committee and been on a board of er interview panel . |