Example sentences of "[pron] was [det] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I occasionally got ten shillings , which was more than a week 's as much a week 's wages . |
| 2 | Now within the national settlements at that time , there was always provision left that if our members erm were in receipt of pay which was more than the national minimum time rate , then that would satisfy the terms of the agreement . |
| 3 | she had erm , e , Sean bought it round there and I picked that one cos the other one was same as the one he already had . |
| 4 | There was much that the United States could do to counter communism in the Cold War . |
| 5 | The LBS report was uncompromising ; it showed that even with full trains , there was little or no money at the bottom end of the market , whereas with first-class and full-dining trains , there was considerable profit potential . |
| 6 | With this limited view of ‘ overseas operations ’ there was little or no need to become trapped in a semantic jungle . |
| 7 | There was little or no attempt to denationalize the giant state monopolies thereafter . |
| 8 | Since there was little or no lending to the Government during the year 1967/68 , it follows that that billion and a half of expenditure was financed from one of two sources . |
| 9 | Even though industrial sectors where there was little or no potential for technological innovation were not included in the study , one-quarter of firms had not bought any kind of new technology in the five previous years . |
| 10 | For another , there was little or no chance that the National government , working with a very large Conservative majority , would be in danger of political defeat even on the matter of ‘ appeasement ’ . |
| 11 | The detailed examination of the organisation of these references confirmed the view that there was little or no commonality between the systems used , and within each system , reference fields were utilised for any combination of alphanumeric codes that suited the purpose of the prime users . |
| 12 | A cheque for £400 had been received from the Radcliffe Trustees , Mr Park had collected £389 of the £521 from ratepayers , but on 18 December 1896 , it was reported that a further debit of £21 6s 6d had been received from the Locomotive Department , increasing the total to £2,935 10s 7d , and none of the ratepayers who owed the uncollected £132 were property owners , so there was little or no hope of collecting it ; that was written off . |
| 13 | There was little or no talking within the group as most were engrossed with making the boxes stick . |
| 14 | There was little or no sabotage behind the lines . |
| 15 | Amitha : I was appointed in September 1984 under the Race Relations Act and there was little or no idea why they wanted an ‘ Asian ’ worker . |
| 16 | When I first began designing for double jacquard , which was quite a long time ago , there was little or no information available and not many knitters used the technique , so over the years I learnt the hard way by trial and error . |
| 17 | To name a child with an English word was thought particularly propitious , though there was little or no consideration given to what the word actually meant . |
| 18 | There was little or no evidence of ‘ home comforts ’ in the cells , the walls of which were plain concrete , with cot-type beds and what really amounted to a hole in the wall to house each occupant 's personal effects . |
| 19 | At the search stage a child sex murder produced considerable coverage , but there was little or no sexual titillation employed during such trials . |
| 20 | They found that ‘ there was little or no accumulation of long-stay patients ’ during the period . |
| 21 | They repeatedly stated that the situation was ‘ hopeless ’ in that there was little or no chance of employment at the end of training . |
| 22 | There was little or no oxygen . |
| 23 | Reports from the constituencies in May showed 259 local parties against the Bill and only thirty-two in favour ; eighty-three suggested no change in wartime ; twice as many local parties supported votes for women as opposed the idea , by ninety-eight to forty-four , and there was little or no support for proportional representation . |
| 24 | Pseudoboekella poppei , Parabroteas sarsi and Branchinecta gaini were present in the water column , but there was little or no benthic vegetation or associated microfauna . |
| 25 | Control of public expenditure until the 1960s was highly fragmented and largely revolved around the consideration of annual estimates : there was little or no attempt to plan expenditure programmes for the medium or long term . |
| 26 | There was little or no provision for the " gutter " women ; the heavy drinkers who slept rough . |
| 27 | Group welfare officer Sheila Redmond , pictured left , said : ‘ Dr High advised that there was little or no medical evidence contained in the article and that the uniform pressure exerted during examinations is necessary in order to take a clear x-ray which covers as much of the breast as possible . ’ |
| 28 | There was little or no difference in technical quality between the systems , and as far as we are concerned the matter can be decided on price . |
| 29 | On March 8 Labour Minister Norbert Blüm announced the government 's intention to extend by six months ( to end-1991 ) its " short-time " policy , whereby employees for whom there was little or no work nevertheless received 70 per cent of their salary rather than be made redundant . |
| 30 | Masulis studied the effect of changes in corporate structure effected by debt equity swaps and vice versa in which there was little or no net cash inflows or outflows from the firm . |