Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably a British businessman with enough money to go romping off to America on some tax-deductible crusade — heavens you were n't anybody in the Sixties if you could n't to that twice a year . ’ |
| 2 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 3 | Caroline Fairley , wife of Lt-Commander The Honourable Charles Fairley , RN , had apparently lost control of a car that was not hers on a small country road in Oxfordshire and crashed into a tree . |
| 4 | The opposition leaders he met agreed that the question of reunification of Germany was not one for the German people alone , but was the rightful concern of their European neighbours . |
| 5 | He gained a reputation as the Buster Keaton of the cricket world , a man who rarely seemed to have any expression on his face and who was not one for the excited cavortings that greet the fall of a wicket ; yet behind the mask a good deal of thought was given to his bowling , and he was liked and respected by his fellow players . |
| 6 | He was not one for the romantic niceties , was Reg . |
| 7 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 8 | There was always someone in the next field to say ‘ Hello ’ to , and the school , which had two teachers , usually had more than thirty children in attendance . |
| 9 | After all , Luke was still something of an unknown quantity , and she had to be sure of her ground when the right moment came , otherwise he would annihilate her . |
| 10 | There was practically none of the systematic planning and oversight which so characterised Bath and many other spas : that could only come from the implementation of a single plan by a great landowner and architect , and Brighton had a few of these . |
| 11 | Now she knew that there was probably nothing on the other side . |
| 12 | Meese was also something of a hard-line conservative , ever alert to any dilution of the faith or any hint of disloyalty to the president . |
| 13 | Now Spike , apart from being an excellent navigator , was also something of an amateur Met man and would quote yards of Pick ( an authority on Met forecasting ) at anyone who would listen , and at first he could not believe that we were in an icing situation . |
| 14 | Where the bend had been there was now nothing but a piled-up , slithering mass of wet glistening rubble . |
| 15 | I du n no it was about to shut was n't it at the same time and it it was like well it 's worth gon na get them . |
| 16 | But was n't it for the best that his son be separated from Jennifer ? |
| 17 | Was n't it in the first cousin of just this sort of place that two centuries earlier another wandering fiddler , the blind poet Raftery , had composed his famous lament about ‘ playing music to empty pockets ’ ? |
| 18 | Not unti1 1937 was there anything like the industrial unrest of the 1920s and this took place mainly outside the traditional centres of militancy . |
| 19 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 20 | It was actually something of a momentous decision — and one which it seemed thirty years later was never to be repeated . |
| 21 | ‘ He was never yours in the first place . |
| 22 | It was never anything but a sporting contest , yet four players were booked — Muldoon and McGuinness of Bangor along with Linfield 's Johnstone and McCoosh . |