Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Southampton secretary Brian Truscott said : ‘ As far as we are concerned all David was doing was encouraging a fan to leave the pitch . ’ |
| 2 | When Pauline Kael reviewed him as the bloated Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , she said that what De Niro was doing was certainly something , but she 'd hesitate to call it acting . |
| 3 | The picture Simone was painting was precisely what Piers would have expected . |
| 4 | What Bukharin was doing was to describe the actual situation in Soviet Russia during the period of ‘ war communism ’ and civil war . |
| 5 | But yesterday , on his 91st birthday , Trafford , whose wife died in sheltered accommodation four years ago , told a community nursing conference in London that , though a Tory voter all his life who thought most of what Mrs Thatcher was doing was good , he saw a danger that old people might be heading back towards the workhouse if the Government went ahead with NHS cuts and changes in community care . |
| 6 | The Mercians would seem to have had influence in Berkshire at an earlier date in the reign of Wulfhere and the same may well have been true of Somerset , in which case what Aethelbald was doing was appropriating border territories traditionally in dispute between the Mercians and the western Saxons . |
| 7 | What Michael was doing was disgusting . |