Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [pron] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amongst these characteristics are what I called ‘ morality ’ and ‘ mystery ’ which contain , I think , the charismatic elements to which Kosa drew our attention . |
| 2 | The words were what she had longed to hear , and she stayed silent , savouring the most wonderful moment of her life . |
| 3 | Shops were what she had missed most when she herself had been house-bound . |
| 4 | Baths were something which caused continual problems . |
| 5 | Books were what he bought most assiduously . |
| 6 | One of their guidelines was what they called the correspondence principle , the requirement that classical mechanics should be recoverable for large systems . |
| 7 | ( The medical/technical descriptions are what I understood the doctors to say not text-book definitions ) . |
| 8 | Three CSEs are what he took to his job at a glaziers . |
| 9 | The questions were what she expected . |
| 10 | She would stay , here where things were what they seemed to be , where trees were trees , hens were hens . |
| 11 | ‘ When I was designing Metaltronix gear , I made everything bigger , for product visibility , but I would get letters telling me that the Marshall ‘ standard ’ head dimensions were what they wanted , so that 's what I based these new amp heads on . |
| 12 | The fact that they were none of these things was something she had to put up with . |
| 13 | Thailand 's Professor Pilai Poonswad , who for 10 years has been studying four species of forest hornbills , pointed out that the birds nest in large Dipterocarps and that their taste in trees was something they shared with loggers . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been playing Jimi 's stuff live for about fifteen years , now , ’ says Hansen , ‘ but The Ventures was what I listened to first , then it was The Stones and The Beatles . |
| 15 | Nearly all Cora-Beth 's friends were what they called ‘ dating ’ , although many were even younger than she was . |
| 16 | After much study Hahnemann came to the conclusion that the basic underlying causes of chronic diseases were what he termed the inherited miasms , a term which we might translate into modern parlance as inherited predispositions . |
| 17 | Selling such statements to thirteen-year-old girls is something which had more than a small measure of the bizarre . |
| 18 | We may have been poor and ignorant in Glasgow but ratting on our friends was something we left to the narks , the narks and the prosperous classes . |
| 19 | He said it almost with relish , as if dark sides were what he liked best . |
| 20 | Interviewed on TV-am , Dr Owen said the choice facing voters was who they wanted as Prime Minister . |
| 21 | ‘ Classy , ’ she muttered , thinking that , while she rebelled against his firm being involved , villas were what she had originally hoped for . |
| 22 | ‘ But living without women is something we decided had to be done — it 's not too high a price to pay for fame . ’ |
| 23 | And als , erm and on them three services is what we said a few moments ago , they got the choice of three different options . |
| 24 | If handing over the letters was what it took , then so be it . |
| 25 | As the deputy head commented rather ruefully : I 'm not sure what I thought were study skills was what they thought were study skills . |
| 26 | Yes , the difference of course is that in two day cricket you ca n't necessarily guarantee a result er and forcing wins was what we did n't quite manage to do , it was er it was a season of what might have been for the County Cricket Club er a very good season but not quite as successful as last year . |
| 27 | The " ideal " emperor for the princes and the great cities was one who granted territories and conferred rights and commercial privileges and gave protection . |
| 28 | Secondly , the pooling system for higher education expenditure amongst local authorities was one which protected those authorities in which the newly-designated polytechnics happened to be situated . |
| 29 | The career of Peter Marinello is much harder to piece together : highlights were something you had in your hair . |
| 30 | Mr Finlay 's main concern about bookshop events was what he considered to be the unequal sharing of costs . |