Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pers pn] was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bed itself had an old , lumpy mattress which gave off a faint odour of damp or rotting fabric — or perhaps it was the lingering smell of sheep . |
| 2 | Normally she 'd have shampooed his hair twice , but his compliment had rattled her badly , or perhaps it was the deep and husky voice he 'd said it in , and she quickly rinsed the lather off , pulling the towel up over his head to blot excess water . |
| 3 | Harry nodded , or perhaps it was the threatening clatter of his teeth which caused his head to simulate assent . |
| 4 | Or perhaps it was the white light shining through the milky angel that erased all the lines from her face . |
| 5 | Where once it was the main streets of the decaying inner city which hosted the most fearsome encounter between Britons and their most improbable and intimidating other — black youth — now it is the classrooms and staff rooms of the inner-city school which frame the same conflict and provide the most potent terms with which to make sense of racial difference . |
| 6 | ‘ But you can remember it all ? ’ said Fenella , anxiously , and Pumlumon pushed his hat well back and scratched his head and said once he got it going , it would follow as the night the day , or maybe it was the other way round . |
| 7 | Perhaps it was the way his eyes flicked about as if hoping for an attacker to appear , or maybe it was the slight inclination of his head . |
| 8 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
| 9 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 10 | But , as she gazed around at the chintz sofas , and the French-provincial-style velvet-upholstered dining-room chairs — which she could see through a far open doorway — it occurred to Laura that maybe it was the only way to preserve such sumptuous furnishings on a shoreline likely to be damp and salty in the latter part of the year , while , outside the large windows , she could see automatic sprinklers drenching the fine green lawns that ran down to the beach . |
| 11 | Bunny threatened to chainsaw the flat in Muswell Hill and torch the goldfish , although maybe it was the other way round . |
| 12 | Dickinson was the last to empty his tins , and so he was the top plane when bits of wood began spitting in all directions . |
| 13 | My father took one side , perhaps it was the right side and perhaps it was the wrong side . |
| 14 | Our rugby action today comes not from Gloucester … they had the weekend off … but from Swindon … and its rugby league … yes believe it or not we do play the game here in the south … and yesterday it was the local derby … |
| 15 | And partly it was the final report that you . |
| 16 | Charles , the bridegroom , was in some ways set apart from his three brothers ; for a start he appears to have been illiterate , whereas they were not , and also he was the only one who was not a cardmaker — or if he had learned the trade , he chose not to practise it . |
| 17 | It had been on loud all evening , and now it was the early hours of the morning . |
| 18 | That was why he had walked everywhere on his early journeys ; and now it was the main reason why he was so happy to eat the food which men prepared for him either before or after they had sex , to sit at their dining room tables . |
| 19 | At that time , it stood a little way out of the village of Wellingham , surrounded by fields , but the village had caught up with it and now it was the last house in the high street , painted white , double-fronted with an imposing pillared porch and pedimented doorway ; Its big black front door was decorated with a lion 's head knocker and a brass letter-box . |
| 20 | And here it was the same again . |
| 21 | She used to play really voluptuous ones in the earlier ones and then she was the old tramp was n't she ? |
| 22 | And er and then he was the only one who did it . |
| 23 | First , Waddell notched his second try after an incisive break by Little who also converted ; and then it was the right winger Manning who latched on to another break by Murray Wallace and made the score 32-0 . |
| 24 | In fact my own wife , she came of a big family and and she had to look after most of the the younger children until they started work you see and then it was the next one that had to look after them again you see and so on , and that 's how it went on . |
| 25 | And then it was the charming picture of her Gardening Boots that I saw . |
| 26 | He had not paid enough attention to Anna , he had not even seen the girl , and yet she was the only one to benefit obviously and directly from her father dying when he did . |
| 27 | And yet it was the second National Government , not the first , which really determined the politics of the 1930s . |
| 28 | The intensity of her response to him a minute ago filled her with self-loathing , but she was afraid too , because suddenly it seemed as if hatred was no longer enough to counter the threat he presented , and yet it was the only answer she possessed . |
| 29 | The constitution contained federal and unitary elements and yet it was the centralising elements which won out in the end . |
| 30 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |