Example sentences of "was the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The launch conference was successful in many ways , one of which was the opportunity it gave for students and staff to display the already high quality of work across many areas of the curriculum . |
| 2 | What was the film one ? |
| 3 | It was the Press which led the battle to cut the Civil List and persuade the Queen to pay tax . |
| 4 | It was the Press which took up the Andrew Morton book on Princess Diana and the state of her marriage . |
| 5 | It was the Press which took up the cause of the miners when British Coal wanted to sack 30,000 of them . |
| 6 | So , decided Pascoe , if it was the window he was after , he was trying to get in . |
| 7 | I think I have to make the point to you that we are planning to roughly double the size of the er airforce equipment programme er between now and the end of the century , a very substantial chunk of that is E F two thousand and its er associated weapon systems and , you know , one has to frankly , take er a view on priorities er in the light of the strategic requirement and given the er extent of the threat as we see it , the possibility of using er of taking part in out of area operations in coalitions , that kind of thing , that was the judgement we took er the medium term priorities were such that we could n't afford the first er stage of A M S A M. |
| 8 | Now tell me what is your name and where are you from , and who was the eagle you wanted to help ? ’ |
| 9 | The people of Scotland would remember it was the SNP who voted with Mrs Thatcher to bring a Labour government down . |
| 10 | And who was the bruiser who gave Kirk the big headache ? |
| 11 | Her head felt muzzy ; her tongue had been used as a mop for an unspeakable floor ; a headache was hovering , waiting to pounce ; this room was n't hers and neither was the shirt she was wearing . |
| 12 | Perhaps this vexing quest was the proof he needed that Valiance existed . |
| 13 | Maybe Mademoiselle Rabier was the Claudine who had phoned when they were in Paris ? |
| 14 | It was the orbit you were both going in . |
| 15 | For Lukács it was the proletariat who were to achieve this praxis . |
| 16 | Indeed , Master Corbett , I am sure it was the Frenchman who informed me . ’ |
| 17 | Oh yeah these maintenance contracts are the lowest , I mean I took one out on my mum 's C D player because they 'd , they 'd had trouble with it , er multi play , turns out it was the stack one they had trouble with not that one , but it was only thirty quid for four years I mean |
| 18 | Happy was the proprietor whose cinema was described as a ‘ parlour-like place under cooling fans ’ . |
| 19 | Who was the demonstrator you had last night then ? |
| 20 | There was the portrait she had been so frightened by when she was little . |
| 21 | Yet another court case would loom from this situation although , for once , it was The Smiths who found themselves in the receiving end . |
| 22 | One of the problems which Lloyd and Beveridge ( 1981 ) identified as giving rise to poor performance on the part of young receivers of messages was the phenomenon they referred to as ‘ premature selection ’ . |
| 23 | After all , he writes , ‘ it was the revolution itself … that first exempted the individual from moral responsibility . ’ |
| 24 | As last year , though , it was the crews who made the story , in the most wholesome of ways this time . |
| 25 | In countries like Spain and Italy , where coal was imported in bulk , it was the railways which transported it and distributed it . |
| 26 | It was the Physics which led him to Engineering , and the Engineering which took him as a National Serviceman to Germany and the experimental air fields . |
| 27 | It was Diana who was held responsible for the steady stream of royal staff who had left their service during the last eighteen months and it was the Princess who was accused of forcing Charles to abandon his friends , change his eating habits and his wardrobe . |
| 28 | Al was the Yank she had during the war . |
| 29 | Nonetheless , the government became increasingly divided in 1947 on a range of issues , and it was the Communists who were usually at odds with their coalition partners . |
| 30 | A better balance than elsewhere between industry and agriculture was the advantage she derived from slower industrial growth ; she also owed to it some of her resilience and powers of recovery after two world wars . |