Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His official title ( one used at most clubs ) was secretary-manager , and as such the administration of the club was as much a part of his job as team management . |
| 2 | Er Madam Deputy Speaker , one of the difficulties addressed during the consultation exercise was that neither the term auditor , nor the phrase in his capacity as auditor , were defined in the banking statutory instrument or in the banking act itself and the government 's mindful of the need to clarify who it is who will be placed under a duty by the statutory instruments and in which circumstances the duty will apply and while this is ultimately a question for the courts , we take the view that the duty clearly covers any auditor of a bank appointed under U K company law . |
| 3 | The most important factor was whether all the crops were housed in the barn or whether some or all were kept in ricks in the fields , being moved to the barn for threshing . |
| 4 | Or sixty two rather but his father lived until he was eighty six and his father was the District Goods and Passenger Manager at Cambridge and er later on , of course , er when he was old enough , he , he was in the same office as his father was but not the same position , you see , but he was a clerk , a railway clerk , and his brother was Stationmaster of Colchester and his grandfather was also a Stationmaster and that would be in Queen Victoria 's reign when , when railways first began and then again , you see , in those first days , you see , when there were highwaymen and that sort of thing erm signalmen , signalmen were issued with a truncheon for their own safety , you see , and I 've got one . |
| 5 | The feeling was that only a Bass Cup win would save him , despite the tremendous success of last season 's emphatic championship win . |
| 6 | The implication was that only the retailers in each destination market would be permitted to vary prices according to local conditions . |
| 7 | And the dazzling thing was that quite a few made a beeline for a lady who co , could at least give thirty years ! |
| 8 | In addition , he insists that he should listen to clerical advice , even though the new ruler was as yet a pagan , as his father had been . |
| 9 | It is little wonder then that they say that ‘ bibliometric analysis was as yet a very poor substitute for peer review ’ . |
| 10 | It is little wonder then that they say that ‘ bibliometric analysis was as yet a very poor substitute for peer review ’ . |
| 11 | I would imagine the plaster wall have to be replaced cos there 's a lot of work that needs to be done on t we 've already had to deal with the plastering once , in fact we would n't have noticed cos we had n't seen it before but what happened is that the the frame of the hall particularly shrank so that we had gaps in between where the plastering was and where the wood was and we had to have a couple of men that we used for this , erm come in with lime plaster and fill in all the cracks for a week or two . |
| 12 | The delay in diagnosis was because even the possibility of coeliac disease was not considered in these cases and this prolonged patient misery and uncertainty . |