Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [was/were] [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to say that there was available neither the will nor the means to drive through the revolution which would have established Owen 's new order . |
| 2 | Helen replied enigmatically that it was all just a question of experience . |
| 3 | But he was n't frightened , because he knew that it was all just a joke , a little comedy of the kind fathers like to play with their sons . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , a self-declared ring-leader , Paul Taylor , shouting from the roof tops , has claimed that it was all just a sit-in protest that got out of control . |
| 5 | He started to smile , teasing me , and for the second time I was convinced that someone would flourish it back to existence , that it was all only a game . |
| 6 | If everything was uniform then the beam diameter would go on decreasing . |
| 7 | At the end he asked me about myself , curtly , as if it was all rather a bore . |
| 8 | When he was angry then the Yorkshire surfaced again in his voice , the grate of the harsh streets of Leeds . |