Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [no cls] " in BNC.

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1 As far as I know , the all the people who voted er for the amendment , will continue to do so and a great many of of those who voted against it and were quite unaw were not at the time a fully aware of what is proposed , er may well change their mind .
2 I did , you 'll have to forgive me , I mean I think for the sake of those who were not at the meeting erm what we should really say is that actually said that he wanted to hear what kind of a parish we are so that he could attempt to match the , the incoming priest with you know the need of the parish .
3 If , if the barriers were down er and you were still on the railway er th ah there 's only way you can escape .
4 No , you were out in the kitchen erm he went and I thought oh do n't you dare
5 Two hours later we were back at the Aiguille du Midi .
6 The Swedes at one time , they designed er a stabilizer which was er a type hydraulic rather than a mechanical hydraulic er er stabilizer , and subsequently all the materials that I was talking about , the levers and you know , all the rest of it , were not required , and it shrunk the size of the thing er so low you know , that er the British manufacturers had to look , because the Swedes were then in the market er in a competitive way to take on Brothers or anybody else who were prepared to er produce them under licence .
7 Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets .
8 Er , once the , the man was down on the floor er he placed his hands into the small of his back .
9 And that was only after the war er in
10 No actually it was just , it was just like a question erm find X. That
11 Even here , as the fact of policing came to be established , opposition was not to the police per se , but to specific operations or tactics .
12 But Gregory , he came down to the er to the base , and then I went out , you see and er er he he was back at the base whil whil whilst this was going on .
13 And secondly the fact that it was n't in the budget erm and the fact that they 're late means that we 're not also realizing the productivity in other areas that we had anticipated so we 're gon na be some six months late coming in .
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