Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [det] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He concluded that , albeit the discretion he had under section 78 of the Act of 1984 might be wider than the discretion at common law , the criteria of unfairness were the same whether the discretion was being exercised at common law or under the statute , that paragraph C10.1 had no application to the situation , and that admission of the challenged evidence would not have an adverse effect on the fairness of the trial within section 78 . |
| 2 | Held , dismissing the appeals , ( 1 ) that , in considering the discretion to exclude evidence on the ground of unfairness , it could not sensibly be judged by different standards depending on the source of the discretion , for the criteria of unfairness were the same whether the discretion arose at common law or under section 78 of the Act of 1984 ; and that , since the judge had considered the operation including obtaining the fingerprints as a whole , the exercise of his discretion was not only not unreasonable but was correct ( post , pp. 234H — 235A , 236A ) . |
| 3 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 4 | A race lost , a father murdered , a career on the skids — they were no more than the opening scenes of a nightmare which was engulfing her . |
| 5 | Nor would the view serve any purpose , including the purpose for which it was devised , if it were no more than the idea that particular episodes of consciousness-say desiring-can be identified by their causal roles , where such identification does not give us their nature , or all of their nature . |
| 6 | They were no more than the truth , but now his mother would ring Victoria and Emma and they would ring him and it would be one question after another until he went completely mad and started calling for humming-bird sandwiches or something . |
| 7 | Mr Johnston said this week 's reform talks were no more than the overture to a long debate that would run into the winter and become embroiled in GATT negotiations . |
| 8 | By now few proposals could be judged on their merits , only according to which national group put them forward ( or rather , each proposal was identified as if it were no more than the product of a national group ) . |
| 9 | The only real characteristic of each day was that it was the same as the day before and to give any account of such days in strict sequence would make as tedious reading as it made tedious living . |
| 10 | It was the same as the monogram on the handkerchief . |
| 11 | No , no , I , I wa I was actually referring to the , the nature of , and the , whether if Shropshire was the same as the national . |
| 12 | The order of genes in these transfer vectors was the same as the order of cloning sites from left to right in pAcAB3 and pAcAB4 ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ They just assumed my house was the same as the rest around here — big and worth a lot of money . |
| 14 | In Ancient Egypt , where the term for wife was the same as the term for sister , and men frequently married sisters who were full siblings , the distinction seems to have disappeared altogether . |
| 15 | Production-wise , The Quatermass Experiment was the same as The Time Machine , save for two small , but significant additions . |
| 16 | The apex of military command was the same as the apex of the civilian structure . |
| 17 | The hon. Member for Dagenham — greatly to his political peril — refuses to acknowledge the resentment that was felt by those living alone because their liability under the rating system was the same as the family living in a similar property next door . |
| 18 | On the one hand there have been those who have claimed that , at least in the early days , the campaign was no more than the minority group Moral Re-Armament ( MRA ) by a different name ; on the other there is Mrs Whitehouse herself , who clearly believes that the organisation represents the ‘ silent majority ’ in the country . |
| 19 | Later , I asked myself whether in my extremity I , the helpless , had been seeking , as the hymn said , the help of God , and that in the act of seeking it , I had been granted it ( he who seeks God , said Pascal , has already found him ) ; or whether this spontaneous welling-up of emotion from the depths of my being was no more than the expression of a statement to myself . |
| 20 | He says the real Shakespeare was no more than the man who looked after the horses and the costumes . |
| 21 | Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him . |
| 22 | But this was no more than the beginning ; for by now they knew very well that there were French knights fighting with the Scottish companies , and in fair numbers , too , and the south of England had been warned to look to its defences in case of a direct assault from across the channel . |
| 23 | The views of the local parties were less clearcut — although the National Union itself was no more than the sum of the local party leaders . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , she believed , it was no more than the gesture of a tired and grateful man . |
| 25 | In retrospect I think it was no more than the truth . |
| 26 | It was no more than the truth . |
| 27 | It was no more than the truth but showed , surely that her sister was not forgetting the fact . |
| 28 | But it was no more than the truth . |