Example sentences of "[was/were] a [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for the CPSU Politburo in 1968 , these measures were a casus belli , and it is not unlikely that a future Politburo will take a similar view of such transgressions . |
| 2 | Since Lewis was to go on to become a faithful and devoted Christian , he writes rather as if the ‘ conversion ’ were a fait accompli , after which nothing could be the same . |
| 3 | He was apparently told in June that there was nothing to report , and in September , he was told that the proposals were a fait accompli . |
| 4 | So that was a na er that was a naked eye examination ? |
| 5 | so you know it was just flowing along smoothly , you could n't see that there was a wi er weir there |
| 6 | Mammy Crystal was a bona fide crone ; a colourful local character . |
| 7 | Another Gothic design did win a prize , although it failed to satisfy The Saturday Review that it was a bona fide Gothic scheme . |
| 8 | This argument was accepted by the court and GFT 's petition dismissed given there was a bona fide dispute as to the balance owing of £750 . |
| 9 | ‘ What I did was a bona fide act solely in her interests , ’ he said . |
| 10 | He also reminded the Association that the registration procedure would take time and invited it to nominate three north country shipowners to visit the London head office of the union , inspect all books and documents relating to membership and funds in order to satisfy themselves that it was a bona fide organisation . |
| 11 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
| 12 | However , there is no exclusion from the application of Part XV similar to that contained in TA 1988 , s741 , ie it applies whether or not the taxpayer set up the trust to avoid tax and whether or not the transaction was a bona fide commercial transaction . |
| 13 | Mr Richardson claimed that , using a BBC microcomputer , the defendant was able to trick computer security systems into believing he was a bona fide systems analyst . |
| 14 | I remember a cook of my childhood whose great dish was a crème brulée in which the layer of glass-like caramel concealed , not the usual egg-thickened cream , but a delicate and softly frozen gooseberry fool . |
| 15 | There was a se er a little seat situated in the great long ribs there was across , and then there was the side that . |
| 16 | THERE WAS a fin de siecle air in London 's clubland last night — flames danced in the rarely used gas lanterns along Pall Mall as elegantly dressed members of the Institute of Directors , the Athenaeum , Reform and Travellers ’ Clubs digested the implications of early poll results . |
| 17 | It was a coup d'etat . |
| 18 | There was a bon mot current : one Foreign Office wit to another — ‘ I spent a month in Bletchley last Sunday ’ . |
| 19 | He was a bon viveur , savouring his food and especially his wine . |
| 20 | Oh yes , he was a d gra the grave-digger . |
| 21 | It was a sine qua non of French participation in the EEC , and thus of the very formation of an EEC . |
| 22 | And she made her exit , to the kitchen , where her real worry was not so much the butlers as the cook , Deirdre Kavanagh , ex-girlfriend of her eldest stepson Jonathan , a mad and dreadful girl with a talent for puff pastry and a conviction that she was a femme fatale , a conviction alas supported by her authentic Irish beauty and her seductive Irish brogue . |
| 23 | This is not the place to conduct a survey of Karajan 's Berlin recordings but it must be said that the 1962 Beethoven cycle was a tour de force , the finest of its kind since the Toscanini to which it paid partial homage . |
| 24 | I thought it was a tour de force , but he seemed far more concerned about getting one wrong ( ‘ It could have been the studio lights ’ ) than pleased at getting five right . |
| 25 | And er there was a er er one of the prominent factories was at . |
| 26 | How was a er er er y y y y you 're a cadre and you receive this how do you take it ? |
| 27 | If an African language was used , it was a lingua franca , one not necessarily employed in traditional oral communication . |
| 28 | According to the IDB annual report published on April 7 , there was a O.8 per cent fall in gross domestic product in Latin America and the Caribbean in 1990 , compared with growth of 0.9 per cent in 1989 . |
| 29 | ‘ The mere fact that more than a thousand police officers know that their conduct is under investigation can , it seems to us , in no sense diminish the prejudice suffered by a particular officer against whom there was a prima facie case of the commission of a criminal offence at a very early stage of that investigation . ’ |
| 30 | The Commissioners still believed that the Act applied and referred the statutory declaration , a certificate and counter-statement setting out their views on the taxpayer 's statutory declaration , to a tribunal which would decide whether there was a prima facie case for proceeding . |