Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year in which social welfare spending 's rising share of the national income stopped rising was 1976 . |
| 2 | For example , the time to decide that the target word snow had occurred was faster for sentence ( a ) than for sentence ( b ) : |
| 3 | On the other hand , the law relating to mistake was uncertain before Morgan . |
| 4 | He 'd repeated several more times that everything the boy had said was drunken nonsense . |
| 5 | Obviously in that case the loss of earnings that the plaintiff had suffered was greater than the cost of employing a housekeeper would have been . |
| 6 | What Lord Denning 's Spectator interview in his dotage had revealed was unguarded language . |
| 7 | Many though the race should have stopped immediately , while others believed the Mercedes policy to keep racing was wrong . |
| 8 | ‘ You bitch ! ’ he whispered as the car drew up in front of the country house hotel that her father had decided was good enough for the reception to celebrate the wedding of his only daughter to the reigning world champion . |
| 9 | He had taken far more interest in their efforts than his father had thought was right and proper for a boy and when Leonie , his eldest sister , had been apprenticed to a dressmaker his fascination had grown . |
| 10 | Since that date the main organisational form that the movement had assumed was periodic congresses of communist and workers ' parties , three of which took place between 1957 and 1969 . |
| 11 | Which you secretary seemed to think was okay for that one . |
| 12 | By the end of the project , perhaps the most important message to have emerged was that language development is an incremental , integrated process . |
| 13 | The powder he would throw away but the information the poisoner had provided was invaluable . |
| 14 | The National Union of Public Employees said the way in which the board had acted was disgraceful and called for the resignation of all the members . |
| 15 | " The Corporation at that time felt that the offer made to them was an act of great liberality , and accepted it with a clear understanding that the connection between the Goldsmiths ' Company and the School ( excepting the large annual endowment of £290 which the Company agreed to pay was concerned ) was at an end . |
| 16 | What his mother had said was true . |