Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half the force had been at the match , of course , although that was hardly an excuse . |
| 2 | The thought patterns like Joanne and others the the concept of putting a little circle down and one word in it and expanding that out and being able to stand around and talk erm for three minutes or ten minutes or whatever for a significant amount of time erm that that was also a revelation to me . |
| 3 | In fact I cried when I got to the top , but I think that that was just a release of emotion . |
| 4 | Right that that was just a letter for reference anyway |
| 5 | Ironic that that was originally the reason she 'd hesitated to invite Carolyn : fear of her Mum hovering round the house all the time . |
| 6 | He did n't believe in the idea of people possessed by devils , because it seemed to him that that was only a way of trying to tidy up the world by pigeon-holing everything . |
| 7 | I did n't , I was n't aware that that was still a part of , of the Guild work today . |
| 8 | The reduced deficit was to be achieved by ( i ) a 13.2 per cent reduction in investment spending ( although unused investment allocations for 1988 were to be carried over into 1989 ; and ( ii ) the raising of direct and indirect taxes by 29.7 per cent and 23.3 per cent respectively ( although this was largely a reflection of the fact that actual tax yields in 1988 exceeded 1988 budget projections by some 20 per cent ) . |
| 9 | The average number of quarrels per hour was three to four , although this was probably an underestimation . |
| 10 | Earlier , Dave McCullouch stated that , although this was always the case , it did n't have to be . |
| 11 | The received wisdom about reform came to be that ‘ research shows that nothing works ’ , that ‘ whatever you do to offenders makes no difference ’ , although this was always an exaggeration . |
| 12 | The late Hans Keller , the most peppery and venerable writer on music since George Bernard Shaw , dearly wished that this were still the case . |
| 13 | Staff agreed that this was probably an area which needed improvement and discussion with parents . |
| 14 | Martin thinks that this was probably an oversight on my part and suggests that a simple s.p.s.t. toggle switch should be incorporated in the positive supply from the 9V battery . |
| 15 | Snizort thought that this was probably the time of day that the Beastline enjoyed best ; supping at the long oak table , making plans to regain Tara , drinking spiced wine or mead . |
| 16 | Figures 2.1 and 2.2 remind us that this was also an era of sporadic , but vicious , feuds between whites and what they saw as the invading blacks . |
| 17 | It was subsequently shown that this was also the case for intestinal secretion caused by the heat stable enterotoxin from Escherichia coli , certain bile salts , ricinoleic acid , serotonin , and prostaglandin E 2 ( for reviews consult Lundgren et al and Jodal ) . |
| 18 | The whole story is complicated by the fact that this was also the time of break-up of the supercontinent Pangaea . |
| 19 | It happened that this was also the form advocated by Vuk Karadžić in Serbia , and for a time Ljudevit Gaj ( 1809–72 ) , the leader of the Illyrian Movement in Croatia , warmed to the idea that Serbs and Croats shared a common language and culture . |
| 20 | In Madrid , the new government of General Prim was equally aware that their actions would need to avoid giving offence to France and that this was particularly the case when it came to choosing a new monarch to replace the dethroned Isabella . |
| 21 | Richard was still not allowed to speak — he was not recovering quite so fast as had been expected — and he could make little reply when Laura told him that this was exactly the kind of thing she had expected all along , and that she would see about disposing of Lord Jim immediately . |
| 22 | Diane told herself that this was just a kind of paranoia on her part , an over-apprehension that came from reading too many doctor articles in women 's magazines , but it did n't make her any less uneasy . |
| 23 | ‘ In case you were thinking , ’ he concluded , ‘ that this was just a quarrel among blacks , a spot of faction-fighting . |
| 24 | But this was just a game , and before some one points out that the stock market is itself just a game ( for somewhat privileged people ) , I should add that this was just a family game being marketed in Sheffield for Christmas . |
| 25 | Then I realized that this was just the beginning . |
| 26 | ‘ Little did I know that this was just the tip of an Iceberg , frozen on chat shows , enlarged on British Telecom commercials and now floating treacherously towards me . |
| 27 | The report acknowledged , however , that this was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 28 | Earlier that morning Wexford had quoted Justice Shallow and now , as he contemplated Jolyon Vigo 's house , he thought that this was just the sort of place Shallow might have lived in . |
| 29 | Considering that this was just the period when women were making history , Thompson has got it very wrong indeed . |
| 30 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |