Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other prolonged study of the flora of the Outer Hebrides was that initiated by Miss M. S. Campbell . |
| 2 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 3 | ‘ The conditions were difficult and Maidstone were that bit cuter in front of goal . |
| 4 | Two of the three moved off as he arrived , with unconvincing references to waiting papers , but Bruce Davidson stood his ground , enquiring heartily how Francesca was and had she been helpful ? |
| 5 | He had come to the place where God was but had not encountered the ineffable reality itself . |
| 6 | William 's victories served to divide us for ever from those wretched people whose popish sedition would undermine the fabric of our world and who were known to hate everything Britain was and stood for . |
| 7 | Britain was and remained a notably unequal country in terms of income , capital , and social opportunity throughout this period . |
| 8 | Bede has much to say about Sigeberht 's Christian patronage within his kingdom ( HE 111 , 18 ) but nothing of Ecgric 's , and the probability is that Ecgric was and remained a pagan . |
| 9 | Even Bert was not in his cubbyhole , but Flossie was and gave a languid thump of her tail . |
| 10 | Warne was and earned the Aussies a vital victory over Sri Lanka by taking three for 11 in 31 deliveries . |
| 11 | Bourgeois Europe was or grew full of more or less informal systems for protection or mutual advancement , old-boy networks , or mafias ( ‘ friends of friends ’ ) , among which those arising from common attendance at the same educational institutions were naturally very important , especially the institutions of higher learning , which produced national rather than merely local linkages . |
| 12 | Mr Richard Benson , defending , said Bourgois had had no idea who Miss Lamplugh was and had not intended to harm her . |