Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue . |
| 2 | Her two sons had watched the scene from a distance and were soon to report it to the authorities . |
| 3 | The BBC were thus putting themselves in a very difficult journalistic and legal position . |
| 4 | According to a report in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 19 , Mahathir 's position was not being directly challenged , but many senior UMNO leaders were nevertheless positioning themselves for a future succession battle . |
| 5 | Bourdieu wonders how structural anthropologists could be seduced into positing the existence of the rule when informants were just using it as a strategy . |
| 6 | We were already congratulating ourselves on a smooth and successful ascent , but you must beware . |
| 7 | Improvements in firms ' procedures were deemed necessary in many of the firms the Joint Monitoring Unit ( JMU ) visited , but in many cases firms were already implementing them by the time of our visits . |
| 8 | We were once promised something of the sort from Anna Ford back at ITN , but it never happened . |
| 9 | Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 . |
| 10 | The emergent divisions of labour in industrialised society were also a prime means by which modern societies were still sustaining themselves in a relatively conflict-free way . |
| 11 | The Communists were busily isolating themselves from the labour movement ; the Independent Labour Party was about to do the same . |
| 12 | The key words , which were later to become something of a catch-phrase , were ‘ fresh start ’ . |
| 13 | He had to — they were doubtless watching him on the closed-circuit television . |
| 14 | A pipe feeding the power steering system came adrift on the climb oil to pump out of the hydraulic system , and Fisher seized the opportunity to start building a lead that was eventually to carry him to a record fourth successive Lakes victory . |
| 15 | In adopting this chic mode of expression , the nouveau riche was effectively distinguishing itself from the traditional middle classes while at the same time flaunting the fact that it had connoisseurship and taste . |
| 16 | ‘ Naturally , but I could see that he was merely dismissing them as the ravings of an hysterical woman . |
| 17 | It was all to save me from the Fiery Pit . |
| 18 | A Gothic mahogany bookcase ( lot 478 , est. $6,000–9,000 ) was a beautiful piece of transitional classical/Gothic Revival furniture , though it was obviously missing something at the top , either an additional moulding or added tracery . |
| 19 | The fact that such an occupation was un-likely to provide him with a living did nothing to deter him . |
| 20 | Before very long , Wilson was constantly consulting me on a number of matters and even seeking my opinion on political issues — which he wisely always rejected . |
| 21 | Now Sixsmith was gently frisking himself with a deepening frown . |
| 22 | A speechreader was naturally anticipating something about the price of leather , the usefulness of gumboots — possibly how one hops round the room on one leg pulling them off and so on . |
| 23 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 24 | He smiled tenderly , and the knowledge that he was only doing it for the benefit of anyone who might be watching sliced deep into the very heart of her . |
| 25 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 26 | And , like the romantic fool I was , I thought Mathilda was only offering herself in an act of desperation . |
| 27 | She was only saying it as a balance . |
| 28 | She was suddenly seeing herself as a desirable young woman — a woman the famous Maître of the Maison de Verveine might have wanted to marry had he been free . |
| 29 | The garnet-work on the sword , however , may indicate Gothic influence , although the use of garnets was soon to become something of a speciality of the Franks . |
| 30 | But Keith was already pushing her into the living-room , bubbling with what he had to say . |