Example sentences of "[conj] was [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever had happened before or was to happen after , it is clear that the population of western Europe at large was growing between the tenth century and the thirteenth . |
| 2 | Their lordships did , however , state that a different result might apply to a telex message which was not a direct communication in office hours between the acceptor and the offeror , e.g. if it was sent at night or was sent or received through telex machines operated by third persons . |
| 3 | If , for example , the arbitrator was bribed , or was drunk while considering the case , or if new evidence of great importance unexpectedly turns up , each party may ignore the decision . |
| 4 | From its inception , traditional medicine came to form an integral part of the popular health system , while in the ‘ official ’ system it was either ignored and ridiculed or was incorporated and exploited for profit . |
| 5 | I do not suppose that the ultimate mental component of the universe is some spooky , all-embracing mind that is more real than flesh-and-blood people , nor that we should treat the state or community as a real person with a distinct interest or point of view or even welfare of its own , nor that we can ask the range of questions about a state 's principles — for example whether it accepted them freely or was misled or misunderstands them — that we can ask about aspects of a real person 's moral life . |
| 6 | Regarded by everybody in that line as the world 's leading expert — he chaired , or was chairing until I so rudely interrupted him , an international conference in seismology in Rome . |
| 7 | It was not a decision that was understood or desired by all Germans . |
| 8 | The progressive loss of the Chiefs of Staff Committee 's influence in the Defence commodity market led to a failure to formulate a military strategy that was understood and accepted in the main market-place of Whitehall . |
| 9 | It has gone very sweetly ever since but that was a good deal of production time that was lost that cost me a lost more money than I had anticipated . |
| 10 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 11 | Perversely , she felt nearer to tears than at any other moment in the conversation — a great anguishing flood of tears , as if for something that was lost and would never come again . |
| 12 | But his features were carved from stronger stuff , the mouth wider beneath a nose that was broken though still straight . |
| 13 | It was a shame about the er the door opener not working correctly subsequently er I discovered the incident with the the other team going into the other bedroom and er a young girl being in the bed that was missed and erm . |
| 14 | I have said it before and will say again that I am one such beneficiary , and probably not the sort of beneficiary that was intended when it was decided that a discount would be required . |
| 15 | If the will had been there and secure accommodation and prison accommodation had been available , I suggest that magistrates would have applied the law in the way that was intended when that legislation was passed . |
| 16 | She wished she did n't feel quite so aware of him , aware of the bleached denims , tight against his thighs , of his cool cotton shirt , open at the neck , revealing dark curly hair on a chest that was tanned and golden , of the ice-blue eyes that were hostile and not about to make her task any easier . |
| 17 | In some cases these features were associated with an atmosphere that was unwelcoming and on occasions " oppressive and unstimulating " . |
| 18 | But it was a history that was now informed by the lengthy experience of partition , Polenpolitik and Kulturkampf As such it was a history that was perceived and shaped in terms of feelings , legacies , fears and foes . |
| 19 | Unlike his brothers he did not seem able to get himself together ; wasted his time at university , married very young , came to London , did this job and that ; wrote a book that was noticed but made no money , then another , a jaunty and irreverent account of a journalist 's career in the provinces . |
| 20 | The data on the proportion infecund are based on self-reported infecundity ( i.e. the female respondent stated that she is infecund ) and on behavioural infecundity that was indicated if a woman who was continuously married for five years prior to the survey and did not use contraception had no birth during that interval . |
| 21 | Where you aw aw aw a a aware of that you were in a a b business that was succeeding when you were working for him ? |
| 22 | I endorse everything that was said and everything that said . |
| 23 | Oh no no no , there was no such , there was there was distemper as it was called , er not like emulsion is today , there was this distemper that was called but er oh no that was that was for the pigsty the distemper was , whitewash . |
| 24 | ‘ Fifty Years Ago ’ on page 19 reports the joy that was felt when the first three African bishops of modern times were appointed . |
| 25 | So it 's appropriate that he 's been chosen to make new gates for the North porch of Hereford cathedral , to replace wrought ironwork that was made and then removed centuries ago . |
| 26 | But any economy that was made or in the early days of Hector 's er business , I know , was always saving material rather than time . |
| 27 | The idea was to give them food that was nourishing but not particularly appetizing . |
| 28 | It is the only genre that was born and nourished in a new era of world history and therefore it is deeply akin to that era , whereas the other major genres entered that era as already fixed forms , as an inheritance , and only now are they adapting themselves — some better , some worse — to the new conditions of their existence . |
| 29 | As we have seen , one of the main intentions of interactionism was to get away from the conservative , causal-corrective stance that was seen as resulting from the determinism and absolutism of positivist criminology . |
| 30 | This idea of a connection between the capitalist economy and a democratic political system appeared in various forms in accounts of the transition that was seen as occurring in the nineteenth-century European societies ( for example , as a movement from status to contract , or from authority to citizenship ) , and it has continued to have an important influence in political theory to the present day . |