Example sentences of "[adj] was [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | And this was out of a you know er I mean they were only what Oh could n't be more than about six eight people working in the Well not actually fitters but er you know , they were involved within the shop sort of thing . |
2 | For whilst other industries could relatively easily dispose of their waste materials , this was out of the question for most of the nuclear industry 's leftovers . |
3 | This was out of the 850 000 or so collisions the UA1 apparatus recorded towards the end of last year from a total of about one thousand million actual collisions . |
4 | This was out of the question . |
5 | Well they 've got the depot at Rochdale which services up to Blackpool and this was out on a limb . |
6 | This was out in the street afterwards . ’ |
7 | Of the seats , 5% deviated from the electoral quota by 20% ( though this was down from the 39% of seats that had deviated by that much on the 1982 register . ) |
8 | There was just because there was n't enough money within all unions , not forget that there was n't such a thing as a T U C then , this was in at the infancy when the unions first started , there was n't such as a T U C , Trades Unions Congress . |
9 | ‘ As I was saying , ’ Patrick Milligan continued , once his youngest was out of the house , ‘ if the best came to the best , and your sister married the old codger , we could be in clover . |
10 | Wimpey made a loss in 1991 of £16.1m but has restructured by selling off businesses and said earlier this year that it believed the worst was over in the construction industry . |
11 | We arrived here yesterday from Flinders at which place I was especially gratified to [ word not clear ] my acquaintance with the Natives and other things , and I should have left the island with a light heart and proceeded to Kings had [ not ] a fatal accident happened to one of the men who shot himself dead by incautiously pulling the gun from the boat with the muzzle toward his chest , the cock of the gun caught the seat of the boat and all was over with the poor fellow in half a minute . |
12 | But while levels of so-called special wastes outside chemical sites for 1992 was down on the 1990 total , the 231,800 tonnes figure for 1992 was higher than the 213,700 tonnes figure in 1991 , because company closures had led to high waste disposals . |
13 | Most of her work would be over by now ; Dizzy was out of the way , and the party was running under its own momentum . |
14 | Production in 1974 was down from the immediately post-war total of 600 000 tons to just over one sixth that figure . |
15 | Yes , we saw a white one , that was round near the leisure centre . |
16 | That was through to the end of September . |
17 | Er in the morning he would be in before any of them , sort of thing , getting a fire lit getting the rivets heat up before they come on the job and ah the the quicker he could the the rivets heat up and passed on to the the squad , then okay the more they could put in so , if he were a good rivet boy you could maybe get a good wage , but again that was up to the squad up to the riveter . |
18 | That was up near the Arsenal football ground . |
19 | That was back in the early 1600s and things had been improving gradually ever since . |
20 | That was back in the early sixties . |
21 | That was back in the days when there were too many manufacturers and too few customers . |
22 | Whether that was down to the powers that be I do n't know ; perhaps they were teaching me a lesson for daring to complain about where I was put . |
23 | That was down at the the little wooden . |
24 | Oh yes , oh yes much as they are now and the big horse we used to call them the big horses you know and er shows and that , all , they used to , Willenhall Wakes used to be fine really good , and er that was down in the Lane somewhere there . |
25 | Sir Gregory knew that was out of the question , but it was also essential that she should not see the entrance to the tunnel . |
26 | Julia was relieved that that was out of the way and that David 's announcement had been so definite . |
27 | That was out of the question now ; concentration would be impossible . |
28 | No , she thought , that was out of the question . |
29 | It would have been a particular thrill to have met the man who could pen such material , she mused as she closed the lid on her suitcase for the last time on Tuesday morning , but she knew that that was out of the question . |
30 | Yeah , that was out of the cash money I had ! |