Example sentences of "[was/were] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in March 1955 at the time of Ashby 's Will Harvey Lecture , there were only five tutor-organisers employed by the Eastern District , those in Essex , Fenland , Norfolk , Northamptonshire and Suffolk : the posts in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire were vacant and there were as yet no tutor-organisers with special responsibilities over several counties . |
| 2 | In general , it illustrates the amateurish state of government at this time : there were as yet no doctors of Canon Law , no schools in which the subject was studied , no lectures , no centres of expert knowledge . |
| 3 | His own proposal , accepted some months later , was that both the Board and District should become Responsible Bodies for Cambridgeshire and that mutually negotiated and harmonious arrangements for local provision be agreed between them , with financial deficits being met from the LEA grant . |
| 4 | Thus it was that both the sun and our faces were shining when we took the telecabin to the top of the nearest mountain and developed a habit which was to stick like glühwein : rösti — a Swiss potato cake , fried , with two eggs on top . |
| 5 | My understanding of what what the panel said and what the what the Secretary of State agreed was that neither the panel nor the Secretary of State disagreed with the erm the general sense of the policy but felt that that sense was er embodied and and was able to be applied through the erm provisions of other policies in the plan at that time . |
| 6 | Er Madam Deputy Speaker , one of the difficulties addressed during the consultation exercise was that neither the term auditor , nor the phrase in his capacity as auditor , were defined in the banking statutory instrument or in the banking act itself and the government 's mindful of the need to clarify who it is who will be placed under a duty by the statutory instruments and in which circumstances the duty will apply and while this is ultimately a question for the courts , we take the view that the duty clearly covers any auditor of a bank appointed under U K company law . |
| 7 | The feeling was that only a Bass Cup win would save him , despite the tremendous success of last season 's emphatic championship win . |
| 8 | The implication was that only the retailers in each destination market would be permitted to vary prices according to local conditions . |
| 9 | And the dazzling thing was that quite a few made a beeline for a lady who co , could at least give thirty years ! |
| 10 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |
| 11 | It was rather a loveless heart , the guts were dagging , and the cunt was the driest coldest and most shrivelled of cunts , if indeed cunt it was and not an asshole in disguise . |
| 12 | He smiles at his wife lovingly and she reaches across and pats his hand , loving him for what he was and not the stranger he has become . |
| 13 | The Ben is quite a different place in winter , equally as magnificent , but free from Pac-o-macs , folding aluminium chairs , and people who want to know who Benjamin Nevis was and why the mountain is named after him . |
| 14 | I would imagine the plaster wall have to be replaced cos there 's a lot of work that needs to be done on t we 've already had to deal with the plastering once , in fact we would n't have noticed cos we had n't seen it before but what happened is that the the frame of the hall particularly shrank so that we had gaps in between where the plastering was and where the wood was and we had to have a couple of men that we used for this , erm come in with lime plaster and fill in all the cracks for a week or two . |
| 15 | I assume that what it was and then the next day we all gathered at Crystal Palace , rehearsed ready for their Royal Highnesses to er listen to everybody . |
| 16 | I told him that I was and suddenly the ice was broken . |
| 17 | Or sixty two rather but his father lived until he was eighty six and his father was the District Goods and Passenger Manager at Cambridge and er later on , of course , er when he was old enough , he , he was in the same office as his father was but not the same position , you see , but he was a clerk , a railway clerk , and his brother was Stationmaster of Colchester and his grandfather was also a Stationmaster and that would be in Queen Victoria 's reign when , when railways first began and then again , you see , in those first days , you see , when there were highwaymen and that sort of thing erm signalmen , signalmen were issued with a truncheon for their own safety , you see , and I 've got one . |
| 18 | Finally , we have discovered who Dionysius was but not the real secret left with him . ’ |
| 19 | Then , his head bent forward , he noticed that the shadows were long on the grass ; in fact , there was but merely a streak of sunshine bordering the flower garden now . |
| 20 | The delay in diagnosis was because even the possibility of coeliac disease was not considered in these cases and this prolonged patient misery and uncertainty . |
| 21 | They suggest that this was because virtually no oil tankers frequented the northern Gulf during the seven months between the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the end of the war , when Iraqi and Kuwaiti oil production was subjected to a worldwide embargo . |
| 22 | The most important factor was whether all the crops were housed in the barn or whether some or all were kept in ricks in the fields , being moved to the barn for threshing . |
| 23 | Although there was as yet no sign that the IRA was capable of mounting the sort of offensive which followed four years later , Paisley had no doubt where O'Neill 's reforming policy would lead : |
| 24 | In disputed territory plebiscites were held in which both Germans and Poles brought proceedings into disrepute by menaces , abduction , blackmail and by outright thuggery on such a massive scale that the term border warfare would be appropriate — even if there was as yet no actual border . |
| 25 | With regard to homage , it will suffice to say that there was as yet no papal decree against the homage of ecclesiastics to laymen ; and Anselm certainly thought that there was no objection in principle . |
| 26 | There was as yet no consensus on how best to overcome the Autarch 's tyranny . |
| 27 | There was as yet no separate building ( other than St. Mary 's ) and much must have depended on the enthusiasm — and ability — of the priest . |
| 28 | There was as yet no uniformity of practice among local authorities , who continued to rely on a wide variety of examining methods , though more had turned to external test agencies — organisations or examiners — than in the past . |
| 29 | It is little wonder then that they say that ‘ bibliometric analysis was as yet a very poor substitute for peer review ’ . |
| 30 | It is little wonder then that they say that ‘ bibliometric analysis was as yet a very poor substitute for peer review ’ . |