Example sentences of "was [verb] be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I looked in the mirror and told myself , first , ‘ that ca n't be me ’ , and later , ‘ that wo n't be me ’ , what I was seeing was a woman . |
| 2 | One task the SD was given was a comprehensive survey of London . |
| 3 | In a letter to the court , Barwick said he was told that the part of the Esk where he was caught was a free stretch and that there were some good catches to be had there . |
| 4 | Derry 's quote was taken out of context — the interview from which that quote was lifted was a very light-hearted affair . ’ |
| 5 | The young man who was hanged was a special friend of Claudia . |
| 6 | To the outside world what was happening was a tightening-up of some matters , a clearing out of unexamined clutter and the creation of a sense of accountability . |
| 7 | However , even in Hirschi 's formulation , the social context that was considered was a fairly narrow one and , in subsequent developments , became narrower still . |
| 8 | Gooch has two close friends with him in India — cricket manager Keith Fletcher , who was has been a father figure throughout his career in Essex , and John Emburey , a soulmate since they played schoolboy cricket together in East London in the early 70s . |
| 9 | I Tried to get some cleaning help but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 10 | ‘ At that time I tried to get some cleaning help , but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 11 | What was needed was a lead not a lecture . |
| 12 | What was needed was a much improved rail link to Southampton , backed by a tax policy that would penalize motor vehicles and favour the railways . |
| 13 | All that was needed was a positive reply from Mr Hussein . |
| 14 | Now he proclaimed that inflation was a much more serious threat to national wellbeing than unemployment , which anyway was a greatly overestimated danger , and that what was needed was a much tighter control of the money supply and the budget deficit . |
| 15 | What was needed was a small bomb capable of blowing a hole through the wing of an aircraft and igniting the fuel in the tanks inside . |
| 16 | Eventually I decided that what was needed was a little organisation — a systematic approach to make my busy life a little less fraught . |
| 17 | What was needed was a foraging inside-forward who could pick up passes from defence and create scoring chances for the other forwards . |
| 18 | What was needed was a simpler more speedy procedure and so Parliament intervened with the first Public Health Act in 1848 , the forerunner of modern public health legislation . |
| 19 | What was needed was a continual flow of information regarding IBM 's product and marketing plans , which is readily available from a legion of professional IBM watchers who demand , and receive , hefty sums for analyses of future IBM strategies . |
| 20 | ‘ What was needed was a new look at the problems and the ways in which they might be solved , both in the UK and elsewhere . |
| 21 | What was needed was a new system of dégorgement , able to cope with far greater capacity levels at a significantly higher speed than the traditional à la volèe process . |
| 22 | However , even the smallest cylinder stocked by plumbers ' merchants was far too big for this application — what was needed was a small , neat cylinder , that would fit snugly under the wash basin unit . |
| 23 | No , she said , the damage had already been done and what was needed was a heart and lung transplant . |
| 24 | All that was needed was a little encouragement , a sign that the employer was committed to good employment policies and practices for people with disabilities . |
| 25 | What was needed was a theory of the material conditions , including social and political relations , that inhibit the emancipation of human beings through their own actions . |
| 26 | Their newspapers existed solely to point this out , and were designed to lead readers to the inescapable conclusion that what was needed was a new political party , free from the sell-outs of the Labour Party and the trade-union leaders . |
| 27 | What was needed was a dispassionate focus on the root of the problem , and this meant that the subject had to lose its normative character . |
| 28 | What was needed was a wider distribution of the profits of industry , especially through higher wages . |
| 29 | All that was needed was a computer at each end of a dedicated phone line , and software to allow computer to computer communications . |
| 30 | Berwicke like many leading women repealers , found the work disturbing and felt that what was needed was a revival of the repealers ' message of anti-statism and personal liberty . |