Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [was/were] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly I was the mature woman , faced with new kids in the workplace . |
| 2 | Naturally I was the slowest , having the most to remove . |
| 3 | For a start , Christopher 's taller than I am so I was the fluffy one … . |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe not but I think both you and Len might benefit by talking about what happened that morning ; after all , apparently you were the only one who actually saw him fall . |
| 5 | Perhaps she was the only one who had got away ? |
| 6 | And , as consolation Marje , you really can hang on to the hope that as he was the secret true love of your life , perhaps you were the secret true love of his . |
| 7 | Yeah because you go to be the eldest and then just at the time you should of gone on and become the youngest , it changed so you were the eldest all the time |
| 8 | So who were the nice people ? |
| 9 | Four of them were female , two male : all were varying shades of russet or tawny , but only one was the deep red that he liked . |
| 10 | So we were the first to have them after they get number one . |
| 11 | Suddenly there was the unmistakable swish of a mortar bomb , then the explosion a few yards away . |
| 12 | Inside there was the familiar waxy , burned smell . |
| 13 | Perhaps they were the last days before the final eclipse . |
| 14 | Together they were the necessary and sufficient conditions for the surge in bank loans to the developing countries in the 1970s , and together they provide much of the explanation for the reverse flow of funds , from South to North , that followed in the 1980s ( see figure 1.3 ) . |
| 15 | On the tides of Dublin or London they were hardly more than specks of froth but together they were the aristocratic Morans of Great Meadow , a completed world , Moran 's daughters . |
| 16 | Although this trio again blended well together it was the tremendous ability of McClure which sealed the ticket to Ayr . |
| 17 | Suddenly it was the Chinese , not the foreigners , who were pressing for a deal . |
| 18 | However , when I got to Liverpool on Thursday and saw the state of the ground , instead of thinking about such horses as Laura 's Beau , Rubika and Cool Ground as the major chances , suddenly it was the good-ground types such as Docklands Express who re-entered calculations . |
| 19 | Apparently he was the National Chairman , which was a bit of a thrill ; on the other hand , he was also a terrific scruff . |
| 20 | Historians have long argued about the ‘ rise ’ of this group , but basically it was the collective experience of nearly fifty individual families who became the pacesetters of Elizabethan Sussex . |
| 21 | My father took one side , perhaps it was the right side and perhaps it was the wrong side . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was the Thirty Years Peace of 446 ; or perhaps there was a special arrangement with Aigina , who may have had her autonomy guaranteed individually , though she certainly paid tribute to Athens . |
| 23 | Now , perhaps it was the poor light but Benjamin 's face paled . |
| 24 | Yet perhaps it was the easy accessibility of English which made it so popular ; it has grown to be the second largest university subject . |
| 25 | Perhaps it was the Mancunian manic depressive bliss that was so alluring . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was the sheer blatancy of her confession . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was the immigrant condition living itself out through them . |
| 28 | Normally she 'd have shampooed his hair twice , but his compliment had rattled her badly , or perhaps it was the deep and husky voice he 'd said it in , and she quickly rinsed the lather off , pulling the towel up over his head to blot excess water . |
| 29 | The bed itself had an old , lumpy mattress which gave off a faint odour of damp or rotting fabric — or perhaps it was the lingering smell of sheep . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was the nagging awareness that he too had hoped to gain more than mere gratification from their acquaintance . |