Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] was the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I mean she for a bit she was the party was n't she ? |
| 2 | I am reminded of the sincerity of your faith a faith which was the light in your your grandmother and Eunice your mother before you and which I am confident now lives in you . |
| 3 | I know I thought I 'd turned it off , I 'm going to have a look , something seems to be making a noise it was the vent |
| 4 | A killer who was the son of an Argentinian playboy and a nightclub singer from somewhere near Catania . |
| 5 | The 70th was raised in Surrey in 1756 and as a result it was the junior of the two regiments . |
| 6 | Now a pinafore what was the word ? |
| 7 | If you look from towards , which was a large house in a clump of trees , at the far side was a pavilion which was the clubhouse , they used to hold air displays and pleasure flights , also they had commercial flights . |
| 8 | ‘ A crown to a groat it was the boy , ’ said Hugh . |
| 9 | The Ruth-W discharged the first 2,911 tonne cargo of 330 concrete coated steel pipes in less than a day , a cargo which was the forerunner of four shipments a week up to the end of the year , a total of 150,000 tonnes . |
| 10 | He said from a place which was the castle 's chosen Subject , and had hinted , she thought , that there was another way to get to this place , but refused to be more specific . |
| 11 | The engine stopped and for a moment there was the silence that can only exist in a forest . |
| 12 | Literary art could then be presented as the only means of determining the properly national cultural qualities within a divided society ; a literacy which was the province of the poet rather than the stated ruling class or group . |
| 13 | The Northumbrians were instructed not to establish as king anyone who was illegitimate ( a slighting reference perhaps to Aldfrith and his descendants , or , for all that we know to the contrary , to other rulers — Aethelwald or Alhred ) nor to conspire to kill a king who was the Lord 's anointed , and any bishop or priest who was involved in such a crime was to be expelled from the Church and any layman excommunicated . |
| 14 | " If France , through the obligations of her own treaties , were to give assistance to a state which was the victim of aggression ( Poland , for example ) , THE USSR WILL OF NECESSITY ASSIST FRANCE " . |
| 15 | He added : ‘ It is ludicrous that a man who was the centre of a police investigation should be allowed to sit in judgment against honest men who were following their conscience . ’ |
| 16 | But help was now guaranteed , by a treaty which was the triumph of Cecil 's clear policy over Elizabeth 's instinctive desire to obfuscate and temporize . |
| 17 | Smiling , Aunt Margaret put the money away in a drawer which was the till . |
| 18 | The Austrians installed a theatre which was the scene of many of Mozart 's early successes , including the performance of his first opera when he was all of fourteen years old . |
| 19 | You had to produce the right club , and if you made a mistake it was the end of you . |
| 20 | We did get through some pretty hot language , erm he did say that this would destroy the tripartite system and he quoted me and said that I said it was a system which was the end of the world . |
| 21 | In so far as Ferdinand had a system it was the restoration of the machinery of government and the society that he had known in 1808 : ministerial despotism superimposed on the old Councils , the very system the Persians professed to abhor . |
| 22 | ‘ The guides claimed to have taken us to the edge of the Sahara but when I looked on a map it was the Atlas mountains , the bastards . ’ |
| 23 | So in a way I was the messenger ? ’ |
| 24 | Approved by 193 votes to 39 with 33 abstentions , the new law permitted a termination during the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy which was the result of rape or which endangered the life of the mother , if the foetus was malformed , or if the pregnancy would cause a " psychological crisis " or a " social problem " . |
| 25 | A cry for help went out to Kings and Princes of the West , and Richard was one of the first to respond , receiving in November 1187 the piece of material cut into the shape of a cross which was the badge of all crusaders . |
| 26 | ‘ For a time she was the friend of Lord Southampton . |
| 27 | Once upon a time there was the offer of a lifetime from Books for Children . |