Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [art] [noun prp] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She added with more assurance that Beuno would also soon return from his walk to the waterfall , and then wondered aloud where the Molesworths were , because in a minute they would be late . |
| 2 | After some initial encouraging noises from Jim Callaghan , the Labour Party turned this request down and the NILP was allowed to go to the wall in the near-war situation that the province had become by the early '70s . |
| 3 | The eastern trade never disappeared , but trading posts were being closed down and the Indies were losing their hold on people 's attention . |
| 4 | Our connection for the prison camp did not leave until 11 o'clock and the Feldwebel was wondering what to do for the next two hours when the air raid siren blew . |
| 5 | The CDU and SPD had seemed close enough since 1960 on domestic and international issues to work together and the CDU were keen to rebuild themselves after a troubled period since 1961 . |
| 6 | At that time , the continents of North America and Europe were still close together and the Atlantic was no more than a narrow strip of sea between the two . |
| 7 | Perhaps because the Galapagos was bound to be an explosive issue , and he was still unsure of his findings , Darwin decided to publish a more general Zoology of the Beagle 's voyage on some uniform plan . |
| 8 | That was some comfort , but not much because the Trunchbull was totally unpredictable . |
| 9 | So when the Sasperella was brought down , that was at the end of it . |
| 10 | The first ceasefire to be brokered by the UN rather than the EC was negotiated in Geneva and came into force on Nov. 23 , after Vance had spent a week monitoring the situation in Yugoslavia . |
| 11 | The evidence suggested rather that the USSR was a defensive and sometimes opportunist power , responding to changing circumstances in much the same way that any other government ( or its tsarist predecessor ) might have done . |
| 12 | The delegation left and we continued waiting until 6 p.m. when the news came through that the TUC were holding a press conference . |
| 13 | For example the Select Committee on Overseas Development has recommended the establishment of a Cabinet Committee to coordinate political , trade and aid policies towards the developing world largely because the ODM were not able to disclose that such a Committee ( RD ) already exists . |
| 14 | Homer referred to the ‘ wine-dark sea ’ not because the Mediterranean was the colour of wine , but because it intoxicated with its obscurity . |
| 15 | She was willing to give evidence about his Mob links in 1970 ; today , she says he was an enthusiastic bisexual who involved J Edgar Hoover in sexual orgies just as the Kennedys were trying to make him take action against the Mob . |
| 16 | You remember — it was just as the Newleys were leaving . ’ |
| 17 | This meeting took place just when the AFO was passing a series of resolutions which demanded the ‘ right of self-determination … forthwith ’ and the organisation of a national army . |
| 18 | She worried too , as soon as The Towers was behind them , about Hal . |
| 19 | As soon as The Lizard was rounded , more than an hour later , power was eased back and the two continued towards Falmouth . |
| 20 | As soon as the Campbells were away , he could have both . |
| 21 | Military experts suggested yesterday that the US was hoping its troops would be attacked by the pro-Noriega forces , allowing Washington to claim that it was attacked first and forced to intervene . |
| 22 | But news filtered back yesterday that the WBC were adamant about Tucker , the former IBF champion , being Lewis 's first opponent in a mandatory defence . |
| 23 | However , there were no dramatic confessions of faulty flight practices for the same reason as in the USA , namely that the CAA was the organisation to whom incident reports were ( and are ) to be addressed and also the authority responsible for enforcement of aviation legislation , i.e. the prosecutor of wrong-doers . |
| 24 | Vested interests in Germany saw only what they wanted to see : namely that the Junkers were the traditional political and military leaders of German society , that they had brought about German unification and that this would make Germany into an industrial power of the first order . |
| 25 | A distinction drawn the previous day by Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok , who pointed out that the UDF was subject to restrictions but not formally banned , was dismissed by the UDF on Jan. 18 as a " play on semantics " ; moreover , the UDF had decided simply to disregard the restrictions , rather than apply to the authorities to have them lifted . |
| 26 | Later in the election campaign , he was driven to comment again : ‘ I wish to point out that the SDLP were only admitted to the Socialist International by my credentials . |
| 27 | Truman was reminded that it was an agreed military estimate that if Indo-China falls , ‘ very likely all of South-East Asia may come under communist domination ’ and , although it might not have seemed a very credible danger , it was pointed out that the Philippines were less than 800 miles from Indo-China . |
| 28 | It was only a matter of months before she was forced to withdraw even with the support of Alfonso ( who now that the Cid was dead finally recognized the worth of his finest knight ) . |
| 29 | In rejecting the MLF he pointedly challenged the reliability of the American nuclear umbrella for Europe , now that the US was vulnerable to Soviet retaliation . |
| 30 | But now that the GLC was about to be abolished and GLEB was in trouble , the paper , with Horsley 's enthusiastic support , decided to move to Manchester . |