Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [adj] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was crucial here as far as Chicago was concerned was that it could now boast a movie theatre as good as anything in New York and that the movies had been decisively disassociated from ‘ immoral ’ ragtime music by now being coupled with the Symphony . |
| 2 | The motion that Socrates was guilty was carried by 281 to 220 , a close result which indicates that the decision was not the product of some universal mob hysteria . |
| 3 | ‘ He told me he knew of a firm at Lloyd 's that was looking for an office boy . |
| 4 | It was because Mrs was ill was it ? |
| 5 | The whole face had the unearthly green tinge of dead flesh , which Jean-Luc Roussel was convinced was the mark of a zombie . |
| 6 | Indeed , the last straw as far as Coleman was concerned was when Hurley took a group of his Lebanese CIs , whose identities he needed to protect at all costs , to lunch down the street at a café full of officials from the Bulgarian Embassy . |
| 7 | Where Clarke was wrong was in his broad assessment that British science is being adequately funded . |
| 8 | The only disappointment as far as Chalmers is concerned was that the Scots scored only one try . |
| 9 | Well John was absent was n't he , so he did n't have any test . |