Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have kept my silence , for the only purpose my words served was to demonstrate my disbelief in Billingsley 's outrageous explanation . |
| 2 | Having my breasts removed was having my stigmata removed , the outer visible sign of my inner affliction of inferiority . |
| 3 | The first thing my livingstonii did was to develop white spot , unusual in cichlids and the more so in Mbuna , and it was while they were undergoing treatment in methylene blue that I started to learn what characters they can be . |
| 4 | One of the early steps that I and my colleagues took was to encourage the removal of intermediate layers , and to try to apply the theory of ‘ added value ’ to hierarchical organization . |
| 5 | Everything upon which her eyes focused was obscured by a heavy veil . |
| 6 | Up to the 1970s it was presumed to be proceeding towards the beech high forest which ecologists believed was the stable climax on limestone . |
| 7 | Deciding which manuals to supply was just the first of a chain or decisions . |
| 8 | They had disappeared last night after an outing in their 14ft long red and white craft which coastguards said was poorly equipped with no distress flares or life-jackets . |
| 9 | The material deprivation many women and their families experienced was only one aspect of their poverty . |
| 10 | That was about £800,000 less than the original estimate of £4.5m. which officers felt was unacceptable . |
| 11 | In spite of all her problems Rose was keeping to schedule . |
| 12 | But it was learned today that Polish referee Ryszard Wojoik reported Hateley for violent conduct — and not ‘ rough play ’ which Rangers believed was the case . |
| 13 | Thus they often promoted what their leaders knew was mediocre art in the interests of all their members . |
| 14 | At that time she was suffering from anorexia nervosa , a slimming disease , which friends believe was triggered by the collapse of her love affair . |
| 15 | The re-establishment of religious communities within Anglicanism has taken place only since the middle of the last century , and the tradition upon which their founders drew was mainly that of the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 16 | Deceptively heavy eyelids gave her face an air of sleepy sensuality which boyfriends vowed was the most tantalising thing they 'd ever seen , but which she always felt quite at odds with her true feelings . |
| 17 | Following the find , the centre was evacuated again because of a bomb scare which police believe was a hoax . |
| 18 | A YOUTH of 15 who broke into a young mother 's house in the middle of the night and subjected her to a two-hour rape ordeal while her children slept was yesterday given a life sentence . |
| 19 | The earlier student strike , in April , was set off by the dismissal of law teacher Dominic Mngomezulu , which students believed was due to his union activities . |
| 20 | Some of the criticism which its recommendations attracted was due to the perception that it concentrated too much on medical and nursing issues . |
| 21 | Within the CNAA what the partnership debates and their outcomes indicated was the crystallization of opinion around a modest but significant liberalization of the validation base of the CNAA 's roles . |
| 22 | Mr Dobson , whom police said was about 40 , had lived with Ms Bell , a receptionist , at their Darlington home for the last two years . |
| 23 | As soon as Waite vanished , the trail went cold , because the first thing his kidnappers did was separate him from his briefcase . |
| 24 | If the interval during which he kept his eyes closed was very short , say one second , he could maintain that we could not have exchanged our places in so short a time and invoke the laws of physics in support of his view . |
| 25 | Boy crushed by a wall his parents said was dangerous . |
| 26 | Oh this is disappointing because I thought that with G P who 'll knows what he requires and what his patients require was going to have erm a pretty er erm |
| 27 | Despite these problems , manorial court rolls provide a great deal of information that is of use to the genealogist and they enable the family historian to gain insights into how the local society in which his ancestors lived was administered and to see what disputes arose . |
| 28 | Harry led our team by example — although perhaps what some of his colleagues needed was a skipper who could also drive or cajole them to better things — but it was a mark of the respect in which he was held by Palace supporters that his well-deserved Benefit in 1953–54 was so well attended . |
| 29 | What separatists did was to reduce the very complex set of circumstances which combine to oppress women , to a single uncluttered issue . |
| 30 | A MASSIVE brain haemorrhage killed a man 36 hours after an operation on what surgeons thought was a tumour . |