Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , Dista was asked was there a delay of 14 months ( New Scientist , vol 96 , That question remains unanswered . |
| 2 | The dress Bella was wearing was of a deep and vivid shade of blue , cladding a figure that was anything but fat . |
| 3 | What Grimma was thinking was : they 're not bickering . |
| 4 | Ann was screaming was n't she . |
| 5 | Because basically what Freud was saying was , the group we create semi-unconscious , the , the family . |
| 6 | One of the girl 's knocked the handbrake off and the next thing the Hurcombe 's heard was a loud bang . |
| 7 | Jones ' tally lifted Marchwiel to 143–7 , Nick Brown adding 31 on a day when Mold 's fielding was below par leaving them with 11 points to Marchwiel 's 30 . |
| 8 | The Egypt into which Nasser was born was at its base an old and stable society . |
| 9 | ‘ Boro being relegated was a disaster for all the players . ’ |
| 10 | I heard the real reason the game on Monday was postponed was because Hunslet ploughed it on Sunday . |
| 11 | The battle near Lopera in which John Cornford was killed was a shambles , and the precise circumstances and date of his death are not known . |
| 12 | In Portsmouth , Hants , a pub where Charles Dickens was born was wrecked by a gang of drunks after they were refused a drink . |
| 13 | I was that knacked not her , bright as a button , she still did n't sleep that bloody night , she 's a swine , Linda was n't very old when Pam was born was she ? |
| 14 | What Elaine was saying was bizarre , out of her experience . |
| 15 | On August 1 , the aircraft in which Ramsay was flying was shot down leading an attack against merchant shipping . |
| 16 | My understanding of what Mr was saying was that because it 's an alteration rather than a replacement structure plan , that guidance no longer applies . |
| 17 | what Bonnie was saying was erm do n't you mean the common area bit , you know , the bit at the back ? |
| 18 | The type of formal analysis of meaning that Lévi-Strauss was proposing was very different from the common sense of ‘ meaning ’ available to participants in the social events being analysed . |
| 19 | Because the UK clearly benefited from the capping of VAT and the introduction of the new fourth resource , the basic amount to which the UK was entitled was to be adjusted to a " reference compensation amount " . |
| 20 | The point Jesus was making was that it was all around them and they had n't noticed ! |
| 21 | What Stenhouse was proposing was a humanistic solution to the dilemma posed by Hoyle . |
| 22 | The religion Tolstoy was to advocate was remarkably like the only one Vincent could wholeheartedly contemplate , ‘ a practical religion , not promising future bliss but bliss on earth . ’ |
| 23 | The first day Benguiat accused him — Parkinson printed up this sheet as a handout with which the finished examples had the logos that he was exploring in the lectures and one of them was the New York Times magazine , and of course Benguiat had done the original job for the New York Times and the magazine , the other magazine , so he thought that what Parkinson was showing was an example of a redesign , relettering of an existing logo , and perhaps he should n't of said that , you know . |
| 24 | This sacramental process by which the body of Christ was healed was further stressed by the execution of the statutory obligation on parishioners to receive communion at least once a year . |
| 25 | The crime for which Jean Campbell was charged was one of wilful murder of her own three-year old child by throwing it over the Old Bridge in Glasgow into the River Clyde where it drowned . |
| 26 | The Montreal into which Leonard was born was deeply segmented , as is Canada itself in its famous ‘ two solitudes ’ , the legacy of its Franco-British history ; a difficult dimension for those outside its rivalries to understand . |
| 27 | Although much of the research Lord Rothschild was discussing was in more material areas than human behaviour , he recognized the inadequacy of science and technology without much closer integration with the social sciences , so that new knowledge can be used ‘ in harmony with the economic and human needs of the situation ’ . |
| 28 | Stop it , you naughty boy ! ’ she said in a harsh voice which , years later , Constance was to learn was typically Milanese . |
| 29 | The friar suddenly realised that Cranston 's claim that Allingham was murdered was really a piece of pure guesswork on his part . |
| 30 | Before nightfall , the news that Doctor Bailey was sinking was common knowledge at Thrush Green . |