Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [be] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one point on which Mr Golyadkin and Double were agreed was that there is nobody like God , but it follows pat and false that if a man has nowhere to go God will look after him . |
| 2 | ‘ One of the reasons you were chosen is because you speak English . |
| 3 | And what Claudia was to find is that our century has proved that the irrational and the immaterial have as strong a hold as ever . |
| 4 | The reason that the Dalai Lama was included is that it will be an Inter-faith meeting . |
| 5 | I think the main reason it was guillotined is that there is a lot of unhappiness among Conservative MPs and among many people in the Conservative Party about the Government 's proposals . |
| 6 | Whether they were missiles or bombs was not disclosed : what was disclosed was that they were hydrogen devices , each one in the monster megaton range , twelve to fifteen megatons . |
| 7 | What I was wondering was if you have any serious boyfriend these days ? ’ |
| 8 | What I was wondering was when you said that the dock stopped the money for payment for damages , they 'd paid it back to you . |
| 9 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 10 | The reason why that was founded was because we thought that the women 's movement in this country and its channels of communication and its publications and so on , including Spare Rib at the time , just did not reflect the struggles of either Black women in this country or any other movements within other countries , especially within Third World countries . |
| 11 | ‘ He said the reason the person was going was because he had a big mouth . |
| 12 | What Lord Wilberforce was saying was that one examines the content and not the form of a restraint and if there appears 'some quite independent purpose " behind the restraint , ie a purpose outside the essence of the agreement , then the doctrine applies . |
| 13 | In effect , what The Times was saying was that it knew what the ‘ real ’ stories were and that only dictators prevented such stories from being told . |
| 14 | ‘ What I was saying was that I have a flat which is not currently in use . |
| 15 | The problem that he was having was that she was his legal wife 's sister and there was some rivalry or jealousy developing between his legal wife and er this other girl and he was n't sure what he what to do about it . |
| 16 | What I assume was meant was that his birth had somehow been retarded , so that he was born a day later . |
| 17 | You know they do But anyway the point I was making was that they call it distant intimacy . |
| 18 | My Lords , I I I do n't want to intervene in family quarrels , but er surely the point that the Noble Lord , Lord was making was that there is no section er two A i in in force a at at the present time . |
| 19 | The point Jesus was making was that it was all around them and they had n't noticed ! |
| 20 | I know you 'll think I 've got no end of a cheek , but what I was hoping was that you 'd ring Rosemary for me and , if her parents were n't about , pass the phone over to me . ’ |
| 21 | That 's why Nicholson 's character had to die ; he was the innocent and the only reason he was killed was because he was with two undesirable characters . |
| 22 | ‘ The reason it was changed was because it came soft . ’ |