Example sentences of "was the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was the film on , did you watch that Memphis Belle ? |
| 2 | This was the station where the fire had been , she had read about it and seen it on television . |
| 3 | Then there was the station where some trains would stop |
| 4 | THE latest version of The Economist 's rough-and-ready guide to relative currency values , our annual Big Mac index , published in April , showed that the Hong Kong dollar was the currency most out of line with the American dollar . |
| 5 | Lewis Carroll possibly knew of this phrase but , because he refers to the grin outlasting the rest of the body , it is more likely that his real influence was the cheese rather than the swordsman . |
| 6 | Now , he concluded gloomily , some the best examples of the Gibbons technique were destroyed and where was the expertise today to replace them ? |
| 7 | I mean the Marxism was the motivation just as it was for the Chinese but er I do n't think the Russian revolution remained Marxist revolution for very long But the achievement of revolution did make it possible for the success of revolution to be seen by the Chinese because it had already been achieved . |
| 8 | Ch what was the surname again ? |
| 9 | That was the revolution here and now . |
| 10 | Or was the metal never applied in the first place ? |
| 11 | Liberals were left to pretend that what they were saying was the fruit not of compromise but of virtue . |
| 12 | ‘ How was the race yesterday ? ’ |
| 13 | Was the ball over ? |
| 14 | Never has there been such a sporting farce over a straightforward issue : Was the ball out of shape through natural causes ( Law 5.5 ) or had it been damaged deliberately ( Law 42.5 ) ? |
| 15 | Leaving aside social legislation , the most important of these factors was the opening up of the grain-bearing areas of North America , refrigeration , and acceleration of maritime transport . |
| 16 | For Labour supporters , 1931 was the election when the party went down to a cataclysmic and catastrophic defeat , betrayed by MacDonald and deserted by its working class supporters … |
| 17 | The independent record sector barely existed , and recording was the concern only of established studios . |
| 18 | This was the yard where Mrs Hollidaye fed the hens , throwing down the corn for them to peck up . |
| 19 | It was the Mirror too which exposed the massive government cover-up last year over the poisonous waste being dumped on our beaches . |
| 20 | Though the six counties initially refused an offer of separation from the rest of Ireland , that was the compromise eventually agreed on , although it led to civil war in the new Irish Free State , and remains the root cause of later violence . |
| 21 | IN 1905 , when the Automobile Association was founded , ownership and use of a car was the privilege only of the rich . |
| 22 | She laughed , and it was the laugh still of a young girl . |
| 23 | and er , so all I had to do was the tenons really and , and at least you know that they 're symmetrical |
| 24 | Was the ferry late ? ’ |
| 25 | Was the dress too plain ? |
| 26 | The bite — my hand was throbbing — that was the cat surely … was n't it ? |
| 27 | But anyway , one day he found himself walking in our street , which was different to how it is now , because not only was The Bar there , which as you know is gone now , but also there were different kinds of people living in that part of town then . |
| 28 | But , then , why was the conversation so heated ? |
| 29 | Nor was it a regular determinant of foreign relations ; the faction-fighting between Mary of Gueldres and bishop Kennedy was the exception rather than the rule . |
| 30 | For although the 1950s and '60s may have seen the homogenization and ‘ nationalization ’ of local politics , before this period the merging of local and national political activity was the exception rather than the rule . |