Example sentences of "[conj] was [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was certainly not the constant locking , unlocking and clanging of doors nor was there the feeling of oppression that is so often felt when moving around most prisons . |
| 2 | Each corner contained a runner of sorts , which increased the rope drag , so that by the time I peeped round into the main central corner that was clearly the key to the route , the drag was very serious . |
| 3 | This consisted of one box with a battery connected to the thin electric cable that was also the ferret 's line . |
| 4 | A ruddiness in his face had given way to a pallor that was unmistakably the work of the cells . |
| 5 | Welfare benefits currently form a higher proportion of many individuals ' income that was formerly the case , because of the rise in unemployment to levels unheard of since the 1930s , and because of the increase in the number of old people who are dependent upon state pensions . |
| 6 | ‘ You were convinced that was where the leak was from the start . |
| 7 | The room was empty , but she could hear Mr Browning 's voice from the bedroom and was now certain that was where the cry was coming from . |
| 8 | Although all the machines had very similar hard disks , the ones that were cached ( the Sigma , the Western Systems and the Phoenix ) tower above the one that was n't the Greenfield . |
| 9 | Now it seems that was n't the case . |
| 10 | Only she had the awful feeling that was n't the end of it at all , and that was the really scary part of all this . |
| 11 | But it became clear that was not the way to hold our own against companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola , or Mars on the confectionery side . |
| 12 | Its widespread influence in architecture has linked it with a joyless form of economic and technological functionalism that was not the intent of the originators . |
| 13 | He heard a dull thunder that was not the blood in his ears . |
| 14 | In fact that was not the reason for the dispute . |
| 15 | But when Patrick found him scoffing a large tea in the Royalbion marquee that was not the reason for his jubilation . |
| 16 | This idea of a walk that was twice the length of the Pennine Way — or so Dick said — sounded horrid . |
| 17 | Last week they played a new noise that was obviously the sound of a ball dropping into a roulette wheel . |
| 18 | PWI — with COSE at its side — will attempt to claim the high moral ground over the issue of open specifications and is likely to cast Microsoft in a mantle that was once the preserve of IBM . |
| 19 | The Public Windows Initiative — with the Common Open Software Environment at its side — will attempt to claim the high moral ground over the issue of open specifications and is likely to cloak Microsoft in a mantle that was once the preserve of IBM . |
| 20 | A little lower , a white dart seared across the top of the sky , outrunning the night , overtaking the sun , crossing in a few hours an ocean that was once the edge of the world … . |
| 21 | Still dazed and confused , I wandered over the bare earth that was once the Ken Mentle Memorial Stand . |
| 22 | of an old walled garden that was once the world . |
| 23 | Yet , thankfully , his leader 's rage was not directed at him , but at the conspiracy of Nadirpur and the French and British Governments to steal the arms shipment that was rightfully the property of Iran . |
| 24 | Mrs MacDonald was a Calgarian by birth , and her husband had been moved north by his firm to run the huge refinery that was now the pride of Tollemarche . |
| 25 | She was already getting fed up with the hospital , and could n't wait to take her twin boys back to the large nursery waiting for them upstairs in the medieval castle that was now the family home . |
| 26 | Down at the one-time pavilion that was now the Venetz sisters ' lakeside restaurant , Angelica Venetz had decided that it was time for the big old mallard 's appointment in duck heaven . |
| 27 | In Pomerania the general impoverishment and the already poor Pomeranian soil meant that very few peasants could gather together enough money to buy their own farm equipment — a necessary prerequisite for purchase of their land from the estate — nor could they ever manage to garner a purchase price that was often the equivalent of over 25 years ' rent . |
| 28 | Statutory duties now cover a wider range of special needs groups than was formerly the case . |
| 29 | The textual practices of these nouveaux romanciers reveal a much greater similarity than was previously the case : under Ricardou 's stewardship , a new aesthetic programme seems to have been in operation . |
| 30 | Another reason to be grateful for all the publicity and discussion about child abuse is that former victims are seeking treatment at a far earlier age than was previously the case and therefore are able to go on and live a normal life once that treatment is complete . |