Example sentences of "[prep] [was/were] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , the player I was most afraid of was Jack Nicklaus . |
| 2 | The moralistic female I was particularly thinking of was George Eliot , because Nietzsche , the German writer , actually complained that she was a particularly moralistic female , but I was also thinking of people like Mrs Henry Wood and Amy Le Fevre and a few others like that . |
| 3 | Here she was , talking to Nigel , who , admittedly , was very attractive in a blatant sort of way , and all she could think of was David Kent 's long eyelashes and his beautiful brown eyes ! |
| 4 | The system set up by the National Insurance Act 1911 was continued under the subsequent amending legislation , but the benefits dealt with were insurance benefits and provided no help for the uninsured . |
| 5 | For example , the Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui has written that the reason why the Swahili word for a newspaper is gazeti is merely that the first papers that East Africans came into contact with were government gazettes . |
| 6 | The only people they were not popular with were studio production crews . |
| 7 | Among the players he clashed with were Martin O'Neill , Alan Ball , John Fashanu , Ian Crook and Ossie Ardiles . |
| 8 | One of the easiest to get along with was Rosie Michelle , a small cheerful Cockney girl who was definitely in awe of no-one . |
| 9 | Ill be sending my comments on the Sunderland Match later — but a revolutionary idea we came up with was velcro shirts … with stick on everything … |
| 10 | The only woman Peter Bleech-Palmer had ever slept with was Tina Darne . |
| 11 | Thatcher really did have a sex change , and the one she changed with was Paddy Ashdown , who used to be a man . |
| 12 | I had been trying to get a membership list for the Cicero Club , but the only other name I could come up with was George Macready , a scarfaced iceman who had a profitable share of the City 's gambling and was best known for his sword-extruding walking stick . |
| 13 | One young soldier I trained with was Tony Rees , from Whitchurch , Bristol . |
| 14 | Whatever happened , the last person he wanted to have anything more to do with was Eleanor Fuller . |
| 15 | The one tourist trap we fell into was St Tropez . |
| 16 | Among the various routes that were agreed upon were US routes via London to the Middle East and South Asia , and through Hong Kong . |
| 17 | Given that its hero 's fatal handicap was the size of his nose , it seemed to me most tactless that there should be a ‘ pneumological ’ institute named after him in Cambo , when the last thing he can have suffered from was breathing problems . |
| 18 | My ward is Braintree East and the only person who came round or dropped any literature in was Mr Elwyn Bishop for the Labour Party . |
| 19 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
| 20 | Selmer used a well-known paint specialist called Derek Adams , who put finishes on much of the British guitar output of the time — Watkins , etc. — and the ‘ pink ’ Fenders you refer to were Derek Adams ' attempt at Fiesta Red . |
| 21 | ‘ Groups like King Crimson were around when I was about 17 , and I suppose the earliest progressive British groups I would have listened to were Procol Harum , The Nice , et cetera . |
| 22 | The beebop era was just fading , Presley had not quite arrived and the advance guard of popular Fifties music that the kids in Neptune listened to were Johnnie Ray , Ray Charles and Chuck Berry . |
| 23 | To her dismay , as she pushed open the door of the treatment-room the first person she set eyes on was David Markham . |
| 24 | Among the collection of outlandish ingredients called for were anisette liqueur and soy sauce . |
| 25 | The Lord Mayor who saved the king and all that he stood for was William Walworth . |
| 26 | One of the things we did n't mention , deliberately , which I , I know Richard said they had a long debate about was child labour . |
| 27 | Now , the topic that Sheila asked me to talk about was skin care . |
| 28 | ‘ What I was thinking about was Mrs Ramsay . ’ |