Example sentences of "[vb past] was [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The measure used was simply the total number of accidents reported at a junction in this period . |
| 2 | His gingerish stubble I imagined was not a natural growth but a product of choleric distemper . |
| 3 | The ending of wartime controls over the economy when peace came was not a popular cry , whatever the Conservative Party and business interests may have thought . |
| 4 | The first that Tarmac knew that the union disapproved was when the present proceedings were commenced . |
| 5 | Gothic he stated was not the national style its exponents claimed , but a foreign importation and as if to counter his own question to Scott , he recited a long list of classical public buildings in Britain and Ireland . |
| 6 | The existence of an ether in space had been a highly controversial issue with scientists until 1951 , when Nobel Laureate , Paul Dirac , affirmed that the ether he thought existed was essentially an all-pervading sea of electrons in random motion . |
| 7 | As I discussed the history of changes in prisons with officials or ex-officials of TDC , or colleagues at the Criminal Justice Center , I came to think that the most logical order in which to look at the contemporary response to the questions that Howard raised was not the same as that which he followed in those chapters . |
| 8 | What Anselm needed was not an intimate friendship , but an understanding of an external aim which he was bound to support . |
| 9 | Edith arrived one evening at a local hotel for what she thought was just a companiable dinner party amongst friends in very pleasant surroundings . |
| 10 | Well that was another thing , one of the new first-aiders we 've got , erm did n't know where the accident book was and I thought was quite an important thing that would probably have been brought up |
| 11 | What mattered was not the territorial integrity of the empire , but the just rights of each member of the family . |
| 12 | The awe I felt was probably the first phase of hero-worship — the sort of thing some people call a crush . |
| 13 | In the 19th century an anthology was made of all the surviving T'ang poetry and someone complained that what he saw was only a meagre yield from the vast harvest of its origin . |
| 14 | This I knew was not a sexual invitation but a protection against the evil eye . |
| 15 | ‘ So Dr Iverson is a successful doctor , ’ murmured Henry Tyler ( which he knew was not the same as being a good one . ) |
| 16 | The last bit we did was only the small numbers . |
| 17 | She poked my shoulder for what I gradually comprehended was n't the first time . |
| 18 | Especially because mine was crying — I think the one I bathed was only a day-and-a-half old , so it was a bit scary . |
| 19 | Yet in essence what she said was always the same . |
| 20 | Despite this it was found that in all three areas of Wales the amount of land owned was almost the same . |
| 21 | His father was an ex-general who had retired long before the war , and the life he and his wife led was essentially an upper-class thirties one . |
| 22 | And then the girl had giggled , in what Folly now realised was probably a nervous reaction . |
| 23 | This is probably a good idea , but it means that you may never know if the food you avoided was indeed the guilty party , because the child is likely to have outgrown the sensitivity by the time the food is eaten again . |
| 24 | The last thing she wanted was even the smallest degree of intimacy in this relationship . |