Example sentences of "[pos pn] [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 | The material deprivation many women and their families experienced was only one aspect of their poverty . |
| 7 | In spite of all her problems Rose was keeping to schedule . |
| 8 | Thus they often promoted what their leaders knew was mediocre art in the interests of all their members . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some of the criticism which its recommendations attracted was due to the perception that it concentrated too much on medical and nursing issues . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As soon as Waite vanished , the trail went cold , because the first thing his kidnappers did was separate him from his briefcase . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Boy crushed by a wall his parents said was dangerous . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |