Example sentences of "[verb] was [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He established that the body which was badly decomposed was that of a male aged between 16 and 25 . |
| 2 | Not all data provided was that useful . |
| 3 | The next flag to be attacked was that of another friend of Iraq , though this time the attack came from Iraq itself : Turkey 's Buyuk Hun was taken near Kharg . |
| 4 | She was pretty sure the only address listed was that of his college . |
| 5 | Except that it 's more likely the man , because , you know , the child talked about him dying , but in a funny way , as if dying was another name for something else . |
| 6 | The power of the platform 's weapons and the threat they posed was enough to give anyone pause for thought , but now they appeared somehow more lethal because they were unseen — concealed behind gunports which had been engineered to such fine tolerances that Rostov could detect no hint of them anywhere on the curved metal skin . |
| 7 | Over bacon , cabbage and wine we had admired the elegance of the line that as prison walls got lower what was really happening was that prison was not disappearing but dissolving . |
| 8 | Now that meant that there was massively increasing pressure on China 's land , and there was growing parcelization of the land and what was happening was that peasant families would of very often er produce two or three sons |
| 9 | What was happening was this . |
| 10 | What I did not know was that English soccer was televised in Algeria . |
| 11 | But what the rest of the candidates did not know was that Pilger had already earmarked someone for the job — the man who had gatecrashed the capitalization-day party — Keith Sutton of the Wapping Post . |
| 12 | What he did not know was that Chemical had run into massive internal problems . |
| 13 | But what the man did not know was that Angel One had also encompassed a darker facet in his mastery of the martial arts , namely a knowledge of ninjutsu , the deadly art of the ancient Japanese assassins from the Clan of Death — the Ninja . |
| 14 | All I did know was that Scamp took a few steps forward into the street while stuffing home fresh cartridges . |
| 15 | One significant clause to be deleted was that which denied farmers the right to challenge compensation payments . |
| 16 | Er you also basically er the first thing you did was erm the second thing you mentioned was these two hurdles , the third thing you did was check when you was to proceed . |
| 17 | They argue further that it should be possible to eliminate the long-term effect by a procedure designed to extinguish a context — stimulus association — the procedure they used was that of giving a period of exposure to the context alone between initial exposure to the target and the conditioning phase . |
| 18 | The most striking temper used was that of vegetable matter , known as grass-or chaff-tempering , perhaps added as a water-absorbing agent ( Brisbane 1983 , p. 254 ) . |
| 19 | Although we can not go into the technicalities of Ohmann 's method , it is worth mentioning that the apparatus he used was that of an earlier version of Transformational Grammar , one which subsequently underwent profound modifications . " |
| 20 | Nevertheless , it was not long before control was achieved , and the method used was that which had already and long ago done for the peoples of the old world . |
| 21 | The main method used was that of interval harmony , which is adaptable enough to fit in with most serial situations . |
| 22 | Methods of conducting evaluation such as classroom observation and surveys of opinion within school were entirely absent from the appraisal and perhaps the only wide-scale method used was that of departmental discussion . |
| 23 | The method used was that of Burke and Axon as adapted from that of Lindahl et al . |
| 24 | Judge John Curran QC said the weapon used was some form of cap-firing pistol . |
| 25 | I need some le er the , I wanted a carton of live yoghurt I do n't think the live yoghurt I used was any good because , for a start it was fruit flavoured , no it was n't , it was natural , but it said mild flavoured |
| 26 | I do n't think the live yoghurt I used was any good because , for a start it was fruit flavoured , no it was n't it was natural , but it said mild flavoured and I do n't think it was the proper like the Greek style really live yoghurt that would have started all the fungus growing on it . |
| 27 | But what 's more serious is that one of the phrases that he used was more people are going to suffer in cover . |
| 28 | The atmosphere she and her band , The Patron Saints of Imperfection , created was that little bit special in the ‘ you had to be there to totally appreciate it ’ vein . |
| 29 | What Gordon found was that , given the context of a mutually supportive group-writing task , poor readers themselves were able to do the job of constructing the missing macrostructure of a text , and thus could overcome some of its difficulties . |
| 30 | One of the first things he found was that golf is not something that can be watched that closely . |