Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [noun] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only police vigilance which prevented more than the four casualties . |
| 2 | I 'm sure I seen it , or was it , less it was only club book I seen it in . |
| 3 | But it was not Resenence Jeopardy who danced . |
| 4 | The Russian nobility were much less formidable than their counterparts elsewhere , they had not yet begun to export grain , and for the great landowners serfdom was not an unmitigated blessing : as long as there was still peasant mobility they were in a position to attract labour away from the estates of their weaker rivals . |
| 5 | But yesterday Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ It was n't Darlington Council who imposed the poll tax on the town or who kept it for a year longer than necessary . |
| 6 | Anyway , that was n't Frensham earth I saw , not local . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Well , let's say that I 've heard of married blokes who always had to go to the office on Saturdays , and it usually was n't office work they were doing . |
| 8 | The fact that nobody wrote and said that he was brilliant and was a genius convinced him that it was n't Robert Bolt who was at fault or the director Noel Willman , but himself as an actor . |