Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [ex0] was [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Results would be more reliable where there was only a small drift into or out of the area . |
| 2 | The revenue investment proposals , the area of biggest concern for commentators , were dropped from FRED 1 when it became clear that there was virtually no support for them — a watered-down version of the proposals subsequently appeared in a discussion draft , putting forward the ASB 's suggestions for an Operating and Financial Review . |
| 3 | Erm , and it was interesting that there was always a tendency to stand up , was n't there . |
| 4 | Though the landing was empty and there was n't a sound all around , she had the strangest sensation that someone was there . |
| 5 | But is this because there was then no machinery for collecting and distributing the money or because there was no authority-imposed duty to pay it ? |
| 6 | It was never clear whether there was actually a Fifth or whether the whole array was simply devised in order to confuse Tehran . |
| 7 | But now , her pregnancy and his ever-increasing work-load meant that at the end of the day they were both so exhausted that there was only the desire for an early night and a brief conversation about all their plans or what Brian called , ‘ the state of play ’ . |
| 8 | Joe Ashton are you saying that really there was no plot as such that there was n't a sort of campaign that er some of the women MPs have claimed there was ? |
| 9 | Well I do n't think , I , they did n't have much in the window , I could n't see very much cos there was n't a light on . |
| 10 | He knew he was clever but there was just a slim chance Mr Crangle had found a way to get him , and he did n't want him caught , not for anything in the world . |
| 11 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 12 | The aims and objectives of all experiments were not always formulated as clearly as possible and there was sometimes a tendency for instrumentation to be set up in the hope that a specific problem would arise once measurements were obtained . |
| 13 | But I chose the wrong time when prices were depressed and there was n't a great deal to come after all the expenses were paid . |
| 14 | And there was a satisfaction about it although I always think in those days we had to work so fast that there was n't the time to do what you 'd really like to have done for the patients . |
| 15 | It is likely that there was also a sense that higher education on a wider basis could be provided more cheaply outside the universities , though it is likely that at the time any such view would have been based on guesswork rather than hard information . |
| 16 | Well you could do your own bands , but you were awful lucky if there was only the bairns about , and they did your band for you . |
| 17 | We got very good but there was hardly a week when some of us was n't killed . |
| 18 | Surprisingly , few art teachers were concerned that there was still an examination at the end of the course , or that the weighting of it in relation to the coursework was higher than in many previous CSEs . |
| 19 | Staff got frazzled , speakers got angry and there was almost a fist fight between some of my colleagues and the lighting technicians . |
| 20 | But despite the spirit of communal research which had begun to characterize their work , it had already become apparent that there was still a fundamental difference of approach between them . |
| 21 | For the early Free Presbyterians , who had joined the Church when it was still small and there was still a great deal of personal contact between Paisley and his followers , there was a strong personal commitment to Paisley 's political analyses because they had come to trust and respect his judgement and ability as a spiritual leader . |
| 22 | She was being so ghastly and there was probably a very good reason for those locked rooms , if only he would tell her what they were . |
| 23 | It sailed a sea painted sky-blue and there was even a figure with eyes and a mouth in a crow's-nest smaller than an acorn . |
| 24 | Maybe it lasted half an hour , that sleep , it could n't have been longer because there was still no daylight when I was woken , although he did n't mean to wake me . |
| 25 | He thought about destroying his lovely tracksuit , but that would be a bit difficult when there was only a radiator in his room . |
| 26 | The Committee was disappointed that there was not an evening round-up of each day 's business ; it found the morning programme a less than adequate substitute . |
| 27 | A spokesman for Virgin said : ‘ We are disappointed that there was not an opportunity to save more jobs . ’ |
| 28 | An acute shortage of cotton had already reduced the civil hospitals to using bandages made of paper , and it was hardly surprising that there was also a human shortage in the country , so that soon after the Somme conscription of labour was decreed for the ages of seventeen to sixty . |
| 29 | But one fine day in early summer when the sky was blue and there was not a cloud in the sky , Maxine found herself cancelling an arrangement to meet a friend in town . |
| 30 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |