Example sentences of "to [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The critical assets being referred to were the twelve M2D Amphibious Bridging and Ferrying Vehicles operated by the troop , which lay dispersed and camouflaged under the high oak and pine trees of this wooded harbour area , about thirty kilometres south-east of Hamburg . |
| 2 | The only people she spoke to were the Lady Prioress and Dame Agatha . ’ |
| 3 | The cinema we went to was the Al Washash summer cinema , situated in Baghdad City . |
| 4 | It was being said quite openly on the factory floor that the only place Clasper would lead them to was the end of the dole queue . |
| 5 | The Bryce he was referring to was the general handyman . |
| 6 | The ‘ indulgent Minister/person ’ referred to was the Curate of the parish kirk and the ‘ true messenger of Jesus Christ ’ was Richard Cameron , a leading Covenanter who , with 8 followers , had been killed by Dragoons on Airds Moss in May , 1680 . |
| 7 | The question is whether the ‘ power ’ referred to was the power to write poetry ; for though the Poems In Two Volumes ( 1807 ) are of high quality they mark for most people the end of Wordsworth 's poetic life . |
| 8 | What all pointed to was the growth of a considerable Wealden timber and brick industry , another attraction for the casual labour for which the area was becoming notorious . |
| 9 | Joe had gauged that the ‘ he ’ she referred to was the uncle and the reference to Pitman 's shorthand brought his eyes to Mick and his face ready to go into a grin ; but something in Mick 's expression checked it and he listened to him saying , ‘ She 's a bright lass , is Carrie . ’ |
| 10 | One of the curious anomalies that this gave rise to was the difficulty of placing an institution such as the BBC into their scheme of things . |
| 11 | Roberts added that what this really pointed to was the importance of having some aircraft in South Korea ; at present only twelve or fourteen planes were there . |
| 12 | One good thing that their patronage led to was the Pont Napoleon , which spans the torrent just outside Saint-Sauveur to the south and is a lavish piece of bridgework , a single arch some 200 feet above the water at its highest point . |
| 13 | He was rehearsing Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and the lines had fled ; what he hung on to was the physical business , and when he did some of it to the mirror it seemed poor stuff for the old Living Boomerang . |
| 14 | What he aspired to was the union of southern Anglian peoples under the leadership of a Mercian king and a Mercian archbishop . |
| 15 | All they had led to was the squalor and isolation of this room they kept her in , and the one beyond , and the yard outside they sometimes let her walk in , and the empty hillside , and the whitewashed wall of the barn against which she had stood to be photographed , clutching the International Herald Tribune for 4 September . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was because he did not defer to her , flatter her , praise her beauty and her charm , admire her ready wit , as all the men she had known before had done , when what they really liked and deferred to was the knowledge of her father 's immense fortune and the certainty that she was sure to inherit a great part of it . |
| 17 | In 1694 Jean Gailhard wrote a pamphlet urging that the annual commemoration of 30 January and 29 May be stopped , arguing that the sermons delivered on that day helped perpetuate the country 's political divisions , though it is clear that what he objected to was the fact that these days helped promote a Tory vision of government in Church and State , since he himself did not believe anything done during the reigns of Charles I or Charles II was worth commemorating . |
| 18 | I think the slide that Frank was referring to was the total charge for the year . |
| 19 | With a careful introduction to the database , pupils were made aware that the information they had access to was the same information available to those in the food and catering industry and to consumer groups . |
| 20 | The next case we turned to was the question of ownership of the meadow ; I 've explained the confusion and the complications about ownership of the meadow because it nobody had bothered to register it until nineteen sixty six . |