Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This connection between economic performance , marriage , and fertility , perhaps the best known empirical association in social science , then worked through the ‘ valve ’ of marriage : delaying marriage or avoiding it was the only practical way of controlling births . |
| 2 | During his waking hours the thought that haunted him was the Renault 18 and its two occupants . |
| 3 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 4 | Plato argued that to know yourself was the very essence of knowledge . |
| 5 | The next climb that attracted us was The Magic Line on El Gorro Frigio — a large dome higher up the massif . |
| 6 | The only thing that linked them was the embarrassing albatross of a marriage in whose death both of them had been guilty . |
| 7 | Another thing that surprised me was the manager 's quotes after the defeat at Spurs . |
| 8 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 9 | The only thing that spoilt it was the absence of Robert . |
| 10 | All that betrayed her was the slight tremor in the hand holding her wineglass . |
| 11 | One thing that frightened him was the thought that , for some reason or other , Busby might prevent them from leaving . |
| 12 | The constituency that chose you was the Conservative party . |
| 13 | Another flower that astonished me was the bloom of the Golden Abutilon . |
| 14 | The first thing that struck her was the cold . |
| 15 | One thing that struck me was the great need to bear children . |
| 16 | It was the furthest north I had ever travelled and the first thing that struck me was the strangeness of the dialect . |
| 17 | Another thing that struck me was the difference in sexual attitudes between Germany and Britain . |
| 18 | The first thing that struck me was the weight of everything . |
| 19 | And in the middle there was an area open to space , just a circle of bare surface with a window all the way round it , and a sign on the window that said it was the site of the Capellan arrival in the solar system . |
| 20 | ‘ And all this from the party that said it was the party of low taxation . |
| 21 | One of soccer 's great trouble-shooters clocked in at the Cadbury 's chocolate factory where Rovers train but the last thing that greeted him was the sweet smell of success . |
| 22 | Not only , therefore , was William party to the decision to request continuation of the supervision order , but he now looks back and agrees it was the right decision . |
| 23 | He smelt the scent of the roses , and realised it was the first time he had walked here , the first time he had looked at them , in four years . |
| 24 | She regarded him suspiciously , and realised it was the best he was going to do for her . |
| 25 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 26 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
| 27 | I just turned round and says mine was the cheapest price anyway ! |
| 28 | ‘ The chairman of the bench denies falling asleep and says it was the way he was sitting in his chair , ’ he said . |
| 29 | While the scrubbing was done Mrs Morey found an occupation which would involve the children , and going there was the highlight of their lives . |
| 30 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |