Example sentences of "[det] [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smoke this produced was so dense that it closed airports and smothered half the country . |
| 2 | Any euphoria this produced was very short-lived . |
| 3 | And what this produced was a fundamentally manichean view of the world . |
| 4 | What few realised was that diesels were more costly than their petrol-engine counterparts , and that the break-even point ( when the fuel savings outweighed the price difference ) did n't occur until very large mileages had been covered . |
| 5 | He observed normal development of the egg even though the number of times this occurred was much reduced . |
| 6 | The reason why this occurred er erm , the reason why this occurred was not due to some sort of er , due to emotional problems that he suffered within these repressed relations with his son . |
| 7 | ‘ Bloody bridge , ’ Gerry said , ‘ the last time this happened was about five years ago , when Jack Thompson saw something . |
| 8 | The first place where this happened was Egypt . |
| 9 | To see a deer with one hind leg removed and another damaged was sickening . |
| 10 | The view of school management on which this rests was set out by Coopers & Lybrand ( 1988 ) and is advocated by the LMS Initiative ( 1988 ) : |
| 11 | What this meant was n't certain , but it sounded good at the time . |
| 12 | What this meant was that sitting MPs should no longer be reselected automatically by local parties just before a general election was held . |
| 13 | The outcome of the Report and the following debate which this generated was a new ERDF Regulation which came into force on 1 January 1985 . |
| 14 | One form this took was xenophobia . |
| 15 | The form this took was to call for a jihad , or holy war , against the US forces and the overthrow of Saudi King Fahd and President Mubarak of Egypt . |
| 16 | In fact , he was recruited to the discipline by what some insisted was the arsy-versy way . |
| 17 | The privilege half illustrated was issued to a female as a hunk was cut out of the top of the ticket , and could have been used by the one lady employee , or the wife or female dependant of an employee of the B.C.R. , or any other railway , who took a ride on the 17th January 1934 . |
| 18 | Mimi Machu , who had been in his life for longer than any other woman , apart from Sandra Knight , left him quite suddenly for pastures new , which some said was due to his own attitude to their relationship . |
| 19 | Bishop O'Rourke organised a petition complaining of the illegality of the move , but all this achieved was to get those who signed ( and later re-signed ) beaten up . |
| 20 | All this achieved was to take on the even more serious problems of behaviourism itself . |
| 21 | One lecture I recently attended and very much enjoyed was given by Doctor Norman Vance on the subject of ‘ Moralistic Females and Victorian Discontents ’ . |
| 22 | Least time was spent on cleaning and administration and recording . |
| 23 | How that happened was that Darren , the apple of her grandmotherly eye , was kicked out of the Rainbow Crche for spitting and language , so she dragged him all over till she found the butis . |
| 24 | Getting these filled was like a military operation , the grown-ups with large baskets of food , children clutching buckets and spades , bottles of lemonade and a few pence pocket money to buy ice cream and other seaside delights . |
| 25 | In ways such as these coinage was used for contemporary propaganda . |
| 26 | Once more I tried to recall what was to happen , as recounted in Mary Shelley 's book , but what little returned was too vague to be of use . |
| 27 | It is somewhat ironical that this position was carefully constructed by earlier Republican presidents and that CITES was primarily the brainchild of the Nixon administration . |
| 28 | The first big challenge was the dynamic dancer 's hair , which we all agreed was bit like a Seventies pop star 's . |
| 29 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 30 | Here for all to see was the great lesson of World War I : the machine-gun made direct attack too costly even to contemplate . |