Example sentences of "[conj] was [adv] [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 9 | He made a rough shape that was neither a cube nor a sphere , but a wet and hollow lump . |
| 10 | Even so , she had meekly done as they wished and taken on a responsibility that was clearly a bit of a burden . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd already stretched my credit to the maximum when the bank gave me a cheque guarantee card that was also a credit card . |
| 13 | She looked down with a fear that was also a pleasure at his stained , scarred hand . |
| 14 | And now here was a pleasure that was also an irritant . |
| 15 | This consisted of one box with a battery connected to the thin electric cable that was also the ferret 's line . |
| 16 | A ruddiness in his face had given way to a pallor that was unmistakably the work of the cells . |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ No , no , there 's no difficulty at all , ’ the other man said in a voice that was just a shade too affable . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ You were convinced that was where the leak was from the start . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He strolled into the only other room that was n't a bedroom . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | Now it seems that was n't the case . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Unita says that was not a condition . |
| 30 | 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 . |