Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the other things about those two that were wrong was that they rambled , they were all over the place , there was no conciseness , no clarity to them . |
| 2 | Final evidence that rhynchosaurs were herbivorous is that they occurred in large numbers ; in general we expect the herbivores to outnumber carnivores . |
| 3 | Perhaps the best proof that the previous figures were flawed is that they suggested that Asia 's weight in world output had fallen from 7.9% in 1985 to 7.2% in 1990 , although it was by far the fastest growing region . |
| 4 | And the only reason that they were undamaged was because he had n't made up his mind whether simply to destroy them , his original intention , or whether to try to sell the designs to someone else . |
| 5 | Medical science was not yet equipped for investigation into near-death experiences , to which we shall refer in the final chapter ; almost the only form of resuscitation with which doctors were familiar was that following near-fatal immersion in water , accompanied , as it often is , by a rapid replay of the victim 's life . |
| 6 | One of the reasons why the better shipyards and coachbuilders were expensive was that they kept large stocks of valuable timber seasoned and seasoning . |
| 7 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 8 | What was odd was that the wizard was obviously struggling with it , and it appeared to be singing to itself . |
| 9 | But what was interesting was that after I began modding my gear , a lot of big-name guitar players — Brian May , for instance — if they saw our show , would come up afterwards and say , ‘ What is that you 're using ? |
| 10 | What I thought was interesting was that the vital points at the end of the day were supplied by some of the unheralded members of the team . |
| 11 | But what was clear is that editors , believing that the play was about the intrinsically moral Brutus , could not accept a feigning Brutus and so explained away , or repressed , the scene where that role playing is most formally represented . |
| 12 | The allegations were unverifiable , but what was clear was that the mixed population was not around to enjoy day one of its newly-bestowed freedom . |
| 13 | What was clear was that the new department was intent on circumscribing medical influence within the state . |
| 14 | He said that one thing which was clear was that when management addressed the problem , improvements usually flowed . |
| 15 | What was different was that there had been something else mixed in with the raw hunger blazing in his eyes . |
| 16 | One of the things that was popular was that the smaller things like rabbit clubs when people could then get food for them officially if they did that . |
| 17 | What was intriguing was that after the gentleman in question had filled in his first , second and third name there was room on the form , if he felt so inclined , to tell us the ‘ forename or nickname by which you are popularly known ’ . |
| 18 | But what finally convinced me that the emission was real was that the spectrum of the emitted particles was exactly that which would be emitted by a hot body , and that the black hole was emitting particles at exactly the correct rate to prevent violations of the second law . |
| 19 | What was unforgivable was that he had systematically lied to me — and I had let him do it . |
| 20 | What was frightening was that this new mass entertainment seemed altogether outside the established auspices of middle-class culture and seemed unconstrained by any of the sanctions of proper society . |
| 21 | What was incredible was that during an eight-year period , Keaton shot a short film every month and two feature films every year . ’ |
| 22 | What was evident was that they had all expected Comrade Andrew to join them , even Alice , who knew he disapproved . |
| 23 | Oh yeah , he told me afterwards right , that he , the only reason he was angry was because Friday night reminded him of the time in his past or something ! |
| 24 | What was crucial here as far as Chicago was concerned was that it could now boast a movie theatre as good as anything in New York and that the movies had been decisively disassociated from ‘ immoral ’ ragtime music by now being coupled with the Symphony . |
| 25 | The general social and political advantages of the newly enlarged audiences were obvious but in cultural terms what was really significant as far as the subsequent history of the movies was concerned was that the showmen who made and presented the movies were no longer thinking in terms of a homogeneous or class audience . |
| 26 | What was important was that in the event of a START treaty marking the end of the START process — the discussion on nuclear disarmament between the main nuclear powers — the secondary nuclear powers , such as ourselves , France and China , should try to retain , maintain or , indeed , establish a dialogue with the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , what was important was that it occurred because Leeds were caught out ( again ) at the back and Jones was thundering in . |
| 28 | All that was important was that she leave here immediately , as soon as Kirsty had gone to Carol 's , and start working on driving him out of her heart . |
| 29 | What was impressive was that each group had something different in the way of experience to contribute , whether about uranium mining or leukaemia clusters or the advantages of energy saving . |
| 30 | It is idle to speculate on the source of leaks — that I did learn in my years in Government — but what was certain was that the Telegraph story could not have appeared at a worse time . |