Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] was [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But unfortunately what that review meant was that what the review brought about was a near privatization of the Health Service through the government 's N H S White Paper and subsequently the N H S and Community Care Act . |
| 2 | What the exercise revealed was that ageism is a phenomenon shared and indulged by older people themselves . |
| 3 | Another allegation the scum made was that certain Leeds pubs have a happy hour on the date of the Munich crash ( Feb 4th ? ) . |
| 4 | The problem which the Chancellor faced was that failure to tackle the fiscal deficit could not only leave him having to borrow nearly £1 billion a week in the coming year . |
| 5 | The problem which the Chancellor faced was that failure to tackle the fiscal deficit could not only leave him having to borrow nearly £1 billion a week in the coming year . |
| 6 | The news that ICL Plc is to acquire Warrington , Cheshire-based Technology Holdings Plc for a maximum of £40m seems to set the seal on the success of the management buyout team at what used to be the distribution arm of MBS Plc — a business that MBS top management felt was such a drain on its corporate resources that it could n't wait to let the company go . |
| 7 | Things remained thus for nearly 80 years , and although it became generally recognised that the genus needed to be split-up into several smaller ones , the amount of work required was such as to make the task an almost-impossible proposition , at least for a single revision . |
| 8 | Judge John Curran QC said the weapon used was some form of cap-firing pistol . |
| 9 | What the Aplysia group needed was some process in their favoured animal which could be unequivocally recognized as long-term memory and whose circuitry could be studied in a similar manner to that they had so effectively employed with the short-term processes ; hence the attention paid in the early 1980s to finding an analogue of classical conditioning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex . |
| 10 | What this difference meant was that , according to the earlier works , the same complex relation between ideas , institutions , relations of productions , and technology applied to all societies , while , according to The Origin , a different theory applied to primitive societies . |
| 11 | In one extraordinary case in July 1988 , the reason the officer gave for doubting the name and address of the person arrested was that ‘ suspects usually gave false names and addresses ’ . |
| 12 | An elementary problem which the Commissioner encountered was that of publicity . |
| 13 | Whatever the miller and his wife did was all wasted labour . |
| 14 | The only comment made was that , in Reg. v. Lawrence , the House did not have to consider the precise meaning of ‘ appropriation ’ in section 3(1) of the Act of 1968 . |
| 15 | The only comment made was that , in Reg. v. Lawrence , the House did not have to consider the precise meaning of ‘ appropriation ’ in section 3(1) of the Act of 1968 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The main method used was that of interval harmony , which is adaptable enough to fit in with most serial situations . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The method used was that of Burke and Axon as adapted from that of Lindahl et al . |
| 20 | The belief expressed was that wage rates were held at a depressed level in the provinces of England compared to London . |
| 21 | One theory advanced was that Gouzenko had misunderstood his colleague and the other Elli was really an acronym for Guy Liddell who had run MI5 's ‘ B ’ Division in World War II and some people believed had also been a spy for the GRU . |
| 22 | ‘ I am disappointed for the crowd because generally they have been treated to some good football here and all our performance lacked was some goals . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | She was pretty sure the only address listed was that of his college . |
| 25 | The only address shown was that of the college . |
| 26 | Each day the Applecross café was completely full , each person whether fat or thin , ordered a three course meal , breakfast , lunch or tea , and each pill swallowed was another cake sold . |
| 27 | The next wicket to fall was that of Ravi Shastri : Gooch caught him . |
| 28 | The reason given was that approval had not been granted by the Engineering department . |
| 29 | Another difficulty Glass faced was that Western notation , bar lines are used to divide the music , thus encouraging the emphasis of some notes at the expense of others . |
| 30 | The risk addressed was that former employees might take advantage of contacts and influence over clients acquired during their employment , and divert business to themselves . |