Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] be that of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basis on which the vote was given was that of property . |
| 2 | She could literally feel it , absorbed by her pores and entering her bloodstream , an alien message of warning , invader already and threatening ownership , but the acrid flavour on which she was choking was that of her own resentment . |
| 3 | The only group for which the estimated SMR was raised was that of patients aged under 20 years at diagnosis in which only one death occurred ( SMR=191 , 95% CI 5 to 1060 , χ 2 2 1 = 0.44 NS ) ( Table I ) . |
| 4 | She knew the part for which she was cast was that of the self-sacrificing heroine , encouraging the man she loved in his spiritual aspirations ; but she withheld the words of sympathy and understanding . |
| 5 | There was much hue and cry among the typesetting and printing community about the quality of this new-fangled technology but the one element that was retained was that of the compositor 's skill . |
| 6 | The specific practice of lawyers which was identified was that of translating . |
| 7 | The summons on which he made the order was merely a summons which asked for directions and the form in which his order was couched was that of an order nisi which , subject to the time limits laid down in the order , gave an unqualified liberty to apply . |