Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She expected arguments , but there were none as the group obeyed David instantly , the more able-bodied standing quietly by the poolside while David , the woman , who she found out was called Sybil , and the pool attendant helped the more severely disabled out of the water and into wheelchairs . |
| 2 | When you last called in the professionals to repair your washing machine or fix the car , how confident were you that the mechanic was up to the job ? |
| 3 | ‘ How old were you when the wood took you ? ’ |
| 4 | erm and there was nothing that a Member of Parliament could do , this is the trouble I mean it , it with everybody was saying you should of contacted us before it went |
| 5 | think what I 'd like , but I could n't prove anything and erm , so there was nothing that the ombudsman could do at that stage , at , as the stage complete |
| 6 | There was nothing that the parish council could do , as at the time much of the area was within Old Alresford . |
| 7 | Still , it was them or a book . |
| 8 | Where was she when the Wildlife Mammals ( Protection ) Bill was read in the House of Commons ? |
| 9 | A world where style was everything and the wearing of white shoes in a blue suede shoe zone was a capital offence . |
| 10 | But here , for the first time , she realised something essential , something that had never occurred to her when composing those letters ; that a performance was something that a person did , and not something that they were . |
| 11 | So I think that er to put parental investment theory centre stage is more reliable and better than the rather old-fashioned biological approach which in talking about sex emphasise things like sex chromosomes and hormones , so that a sex chromosome in a mammal for instance was something that a male had but a female did n't and this gave rise to hormonal effects like those of testosterone erm which are thought to be very important . |
| 12 | And heavy rain , at this period of the siege , was something that the garrison could have well done without . |
| 13 | ‘ Another scene cut was one where a man 's brains are splattered over a window . ’ |
| 14 | The reason offered for this was that , by definition , a public place was one where the public were likely to be . |
| 15 | ‘ It was one where the inquiry team had got to have an understanding of medical matters . ’ |
| 16 | Finally , she was herself and the crocodile at the same time . |
| 17 | With no reason to suppose he was anybody but a Greek-Cypriot , they would go on talking business in Arabic , and Taxi George would time their cab ride according to the intelligence value of their conversation . |
| 18 | When human life was so short and had been so cheap , what was there but the living , the greed of the moment ? |
| 19 | Bodie said , ‘ It was him or a lot of other people . ’ |
| 20 | I mean , my husband has even at one point had to come into the bathroom , when I got my mother stuck in the bath er , could n't get her out , it was , it was him or the fire brigade , tha that was the choice , basically ! |
| 21 | Nicholas wore himself out seeking to keep control over every conceivable decision in his own hands , so convinced was he that the sovereign alone could perceive the common good . |
| 22 | So hungry was he for the role that , instead of going for treatment , he went home to bed . |
| 23 | The auctioneer 's smile was naught but a memory . |
| 24 | Did it come as a sudden revelation and a flash of light to Brigadier Crawley , or was it that the development corporation , with its vast capital expenditure , needed a prestige project to give it credence in the eyes of the commercial world ? |
| 25 | Or was it that the kitchen reminded Dalgliesh of that rectory kitchen where the lonely only child had found warmth and undemanding , uncensorious companionship , been given hot dripping toast and small forbidden treats ? |
| 26 | So enormous was it that the behemoth was believed to drink whole rivers and consume one-thousand mountains a day . |
| 27 | Was it that the child was too refined and showing up her own shortcomings ? |
| 28 | How was it that the Colonel 's assumptions were so unimaginative ? |
| 29 | As Mr Hart himself asked in a letter to The Times : ‘ In the face of so pellucid a Parliamentary intention , how was it that the Revenue not only thought it worth while to try it on , but actually found two courts to agree with it ? ’ |
| 30 | In other words , did the religious belief stimulate the precise astronomical observation , or was it that the study of the skies gave rise to beliefs about the gods ? |