Example sentences of "[was/were] [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had scrumpled it up and tossed it into the wastepaper basket with an insouciant laugh … well , more of a furious scowl , actually , and then had had to put up with Helena asking whether Matthew Prescott was that rather super chap who had been featured in GQ a short while ago . |
| 2 | Our overriding conclusion was that racially discriminatory behaviour was not an obvious or noticeable feature of court-room interactions . |
| 3 | Johnson declared himself in favour of such prescribed succession : ‘ His opinion was that so much land should be entailed as that families should never fall into contempt , and as much left free as to give them all the advantages in case of any emergency . ’ |
| 4 | By my first weekend at the Centre I was that very dangerous creature , one worse than a missionary , a convert . |
| 5 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 6 | The other major lesson was that as much information as it is possible to validate should be validated . |
| 7 | An example in the past was that too much butter had been produced . |
| 8 | Saw ‘ Utton git ‘ is 364 , did'n ’ I ? 300 overnight ‘ e was and then next day ‘ e swep ’ past ‘ Ammond and Bradman 's records ! |
| 9 | It was but lately that realty had been made liable for the debts of its deceased owner . |
| 10 | This was because once economic stability had been regained it was doubtful whether Europe would ever become the significant world power it had once been . |
| 11 | The only possible way your ‘ burning ’ could have been used was as yet another tool of control . |
| 12 | In the Olympic Village , built south of the Han River , there was as yet little life stirring inside the concrete apartments . |