Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] was [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably that was why the kitchen door been left open — to get enough light from the kitchen . |
| 2 | Well apparently that was n't the end of the garden you see cos that came across like this and when you went through a gap in the hedge about another twenty yards further on in the far distance it seemed there was the hut . |
| 3 | Perhaps that was why every cell of her normally controlled body seemed to be on red alert in Rune Christensen 's presence . |
| 4 | Perhaps that was partly the trouble . |
| 5 | Perhaps that was just a case where , in the early stages of the life-cycle , corporate managers acted more like private consumers than industrial purchasers of large-scale equipment . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps that was n't an accident either . |
| 7 | So that was why the police-sergeant had been so pleased ! |
| 8 | erm I believe , in fact , that the Oxfordshire County Council provides an excellent quality of education erm so that was n't the argument . |
| 9 | Lowell 's brain was ticking over figures like a demented computer — so that was where the money was going — a mink jacket , or a mink coat — whichever , it was good-bye to a thousand plus . |
| 10 | So that was quite an experience and quite a contrast from er life in good old England . |
| 11 | So that was indeed an location . |
| 12 | Perhaps this was merely a ruse to trick them into a crossing at Forteviot . |
| 13 | Strangely enough this was also the period when the Elves came to realise they were a dying race . |
| 14 | So this was not the equivalent of a father wanting to pass on the passionate love of his hobby to his children . |
| 15 | So this was how a submarine came back from a successful patrol ! |
| 16 | So this was quite a mission which I believe has not been adequately covered in the history and was a forerunner of things to come and like I say we got through that mission without any damage , our gunners got to shoot at the first German fighters and we were an experienced crew with one mission under our belt . |
| 17 | The belief that mid-nineteenth-century bourgeois were unusually full-blooded and therefore obliged to build unusually impenetrable defences against physical temptation is unconvincing : what made the temptations so great was precisely the extremism of the accepted moral standards , which also made the fall correspondingly more dramatic , as in the case of the Catholic-puritan Count Muffat in Emile Zola 's Nana , the novel of prostitution in the Paris of the 1860s . |
| 18 | Of the seven wars with France that can be counted between 1690 and 1815 , only one was indisputably a war about colonies , but of course all of them affected the colonies and their inhabitants . |
| 19 | ‘ Gradually he got to drinking with his Bohemian friends , ’ she said , ‘ and soon this was n't a home . |
| 20 | And still that was n't the end of it . |
| 21 | The new arrangements were supposed to ensure that true fans got a fair chance , but a Sunderland Supporters Association spokeswoman said yesterday that was not the case . |
| 22 | The mere fact that he was still alive was surely a sign that he was destined to succeed was n't it ? |
| 23 | Possibly this was not the intention of Parliament for " restored " seems inappropriate to describe the situation where goods have come into the police 's possession . |
| 24 | but but possibly this was n't the majority case . |
| 25 | Pretending to be deeply interested was rather a strain . |
| 26 | More puzzling was why the Justice Police had not been informed . |
| 27 | Another example is the West London Institute of Higher Education formed out of two former colleges of education , Borough Road and Maria Grey , and Chiswick Polytechnic , which to make confusion more confounded was not a polytechnic as we would understand it but , in effect , a college of technology . |
| 28 | Clearly this was not the case . |
| 29 | Now that was not the way for a modern police officer to speak , Lane felt . |
| 30 | Now this was not a phrase I had ever used , but I hoped with all my heart that it was true . |