Example sentences of "[conj] was [pos pn] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As affectionate — loving — or was your relationship with her , say , less intimate ? ’ |
| 2 | It seems that Carroll 's obsession with time in this chapter is not completely dreamt up , or was his infatuation with continually waking up the dormouse . |
| 3 | The membership of this minority was never defined , nor was its need for a fundamentally different kind of teaching explained or justified . |
| 4 | Nor was my father in any way unusual in his opinions , though he was unusually fierce in the vehemence with which he expressed them . |
| 5 | He was never a typical military dictator , nor was his Panama to be compared with Pinochet 's Chile . |
| 6 | The Thing made the little clicking noise that was its equivalent of clearing its throat . |
| 7 | It did not start the cauldron brewing but its members reacted to the simmering unrest that was their inheritance with an honest attempt to apply minds to what had always been the province of bigotry and emotion . |
| 8 | Now when my mother flies in from Vancouver she barely recognizes the city that was her home for nearly 40 years . |
| 9 | He washed his face in the perfume that was her love for him . |
| 10 | She wanted to stay here , the place that was her idea of heaven — Fen 's arms . |
| 11 | As though he could see beneath her skin with those piercing dark eyes of his to the anguished pulsing ball that was her heart at this moment . |
| 12 | ‘ Come on , ’ he said and they both left Steed parked there and made their way to the twisted and bent railing that was his door to the family . |
| 13 | Mountfield , prising himself away momentarily from the Tipton Terror , met the ball at the far post to score the kind of goal that was his trademark at Everton . |
| 14 | He wanted to wood sculpture that was his idea in |
| 15 | From its lofty position one can see the parish of his birth , the route by which his mother took him to Ayr , the town of Ayr in which he ran errands as a boy , the harbour from which he went off to sea , and all of the land that was his estate of Orangefield . |
| 16 | ‘ I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize , ’ Van Gogh had written , groping to define for his brother the human essence that was his aim in pictures such as this . ’ |
| 17 | The batch approach to information-giving that was our experience of the NHS contrasted markedly with the sympathetic sharing of advice and counsel from the NCT . |
| 18 | My uncle Fred , whom we had stayed with as Viceroy of India , was a Fellow of All Souls , the only college without undergraduates , and was its Warden for two terms before he died in 1933 . |
| 19 | Hope was an ardent supporter of the Society , and was its President from June 1859 until its dissolution after 1878 . |
| 20 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |
| 21 | At cricket I played in the second eleven , and was its captain in my third year . |
| 22 | He began his career as clerk to the influential local builder , Thomas Warr Atwood , and was his spokesman in a long dispute with rival builders over the design for a new guildhall . |
| 23 | Admittedly , Lewis Namier was reactionary by temperament , but was his influence on historiography also reactionary ? |
| 24 | He accepted that those of English descent were decreasing as a percentage of the population but their cultural loyalty was as strong as ever , as was their influence in shaping American thought , especially through literature . |
| 25 | We may also assume that thereafter the police officers abstained , as was their duty under Code C , from conducting any further interviews with the applicant in relation to the offence with which he had been charged , save perhaps in the very limited respects permitted by Code C , to which I shall later refer . |
| 26 | The cornflower-blue dress she had brought to wear at the finals had been slept on by Ethel and was impossibly creased , as was her face after two nights sleeping in the car . |
| 27 | A study of the Atchee hunter gatherers in Paraguay show that a woman 's body weight was erm directly related to her reproductive success as was her age of menarche in other words the younger the younger menarche and the heavier the woman , the greater her lifetime reproductive success and this again er should n't surprise us . |
| 28 | The role of Australia in all this is particularly important , as was its role in the successful campaign eventually to get a moratorium . |
| 29 | ‘ Watching actors work as an assistant director has been helpful , as was my experience in Eastern Europe . |
| 30 | Cuvier 's rigid distinction between the four types was intended to discredit this interpretation , as was his theory of catastrophic extinction ( chapter 6 ) . |