Example sentences of "[vb past] this [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What complicated this debate was the question of whether there were enough houses of the right kind in the right places . |
| 2 | What changed this situation was the defeat of the poles in July , and the Red Army 's counter-thrust into Poland . |
| 3 | Wycliffe spoke to the scenes-of-crime officer : ‘ When you arrived this morning was the yard door bolted ? ’ |
| 4 | What surprised this observer was the extent to which Dickson — admittedly an aloof and irascible young man — has become unpopular with the New Zealand yachting community . |
| 5 | The most memorable thing about the complex power struggle that had this result was the fate of the losers . |
| 6 | Tradition , with her thousand tongues , said this barrow was the tomb of a Cornish King or Roman General , the Arch Druids of the day , an Irish Saint etc ; and , moreover , that vast treasures lay burried with the body and that in the early part of the century a golden boat had been found concealed below its surface . |
| 7 | We might infer simply that Nietzsche supposed this aspect was the most likely to interest the general public . |