Example sentences of "[conj] was [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could we decide whether it had free will or was just a robot , programmed to respond as if it were like us ? |
| 2 | Following this , a single probe letter was presented to one or other visual half-field and the subject 's task was to respond , using the left hand , as fast as possible to indicate whether the visually presented letter was or was not a member of the auditorily presented memory set . |
| 3 | But , having said that , it is not or was not an issue at the forefront of British politics and in a sense you can say the whole nation was guilty in that way . |
| 4 | I do n't believe that this city of ours was preordained , or was entirely a function of the recent past . |
| 5 | Did you do it in the cabin or was there a bed made up in the back ? |
| 6 | Did Could everybody afford to have their own horse and gig or or was there a bus that came in or ? |
| 7 | There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance , impaired gall bladder contraction , and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes . |
| 8 | He made a rough shape that was neither a cube nor a sphere , but a wet and hollow lump . |
| 9 | Even so , she had meekly done as they wished and taken on a responsibility that was clearly a bit of a burden . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd already stretched my credit to the maximum when the bank gave me a cheque guarantee card that was also a credit card . |
| 11 | She looked down with a fear that was also a pleasure at his stained , scarred hand . |
| 12 | And now here was a pleasure that was also an irritant . |
| 13 | The depth of Nizan 's commitment to the Soviet Union was similarly visible a few months later when he described the great steps made by the mass of the Soviet people in terms of cultural development : When you have seen young workers in Moscow or Tashkent … speaking passionately of Gogol or Gorky , you realise that the Soviet people have gained admission to the high culture that was previously a privilege of the bourgeoisie … |
| 14 | tying them up but when they went out to the end of the estuary that was just a case of get there first to get the job ? |
| 15 | She resented having to run out to the telephone , in the middle of this useful busyness , wasting time over something that was just a routine . |
| 16 | ‘ No , no , there 's no difficulty at all , ’ the other man said in a voice that was just a shade too affable . |
| 17 | He strolled into the only other room that was n't a bedroom . |
| 18 | or they came by something where somebody turned up in a little van that was n't a Post Office van and I had to sign . |
| 19 | Yes it is , er I mean , what we tried to do was to write er a comedy on a big scale that was n't a marshmallow , er in fact it er the , the comedy deepens and it gets pretty sour , and I think some of the criticism of the play has been that ‘ is it a comedy , or is it a serious play ’ . |
| 20 | Unita says that was not a condition . |
| 21 | Furthermore , we previously showed that asthmatics , when compared with normal subjects , had diminished LOS pressures and significantly greater acid reflux that was not a result of the bronchodilator therapy . |
| 22 | Grown-ups have things to do , you know , an' they ca n't always explain them … well — ' She put her arm around the narrow shoulders and pulled the child into her side , and when again the arm came around her waist and the head was pressed between her breasts there arose in her that pain that was both an ache and a pleasure : a pleasure that had no future that she could see ; a pleasure that she had been deprived of all during her womanhood . |
| 23 | That it had made contact was evident , for Sister Mary let out a cry , a weird sound that was rather a yell not a scream . |
| 24 | ‘ But they have n't got time to look for something that was probably a mouse , ’ said Masklin . |
| 25 | He had just provided some polish for a machine that was already a miracle of design . |
| 26 | He was standing on the exposed rocks at the highest point of the headland ; the ground fell away steeply from here , mostly bare rock and scrub , with just a narrow shelf of land that was almost a beach down at the water 's edge . |
| 27 | With a bobbing movement that was almost a curtsey , Madame Delon hurried away . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't know it was a matter of taking sides , Joe , ’ Ashdown said with a gentleness that was almost a reprimand . |
| 29 | He unclipped a plastic water-bottle from his belt and held it out with a smile that was almost a grin . |
| 30 | Only stood staring , unaware of the mix of emotions in his face : double fire in his eyes — anger and desire both ; the sneer on his lips that was almost a smile ; and the still-present evidence of his recent excesses — a pallid complexion and the darker skin beneath his eyes , the deeper carved lines down to his mouth . |