Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allen thought that if they were delayed long enough the Friar would return and then something might be done … unless it was the Friar who had betrayed them . |
| 2 | Twiddling any one of them makes the colour worse ; but if all three , or perhaps just two , were adjusted simultaneously then the colour of the picture would improve . |
| 3 | Had it not been his solicitors the Inland Revenue would have got him yesterday for unpaid tax bills , but its petition was dismissed automatically once the High Court heard that a bankruptcy order had already been made . |
| 4 | It was the target of an IRA bomb in December 1991 , just before the pantomime and was reopened yet again the following spring . |
| 5 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc was told pretty much the same thing ( UX No 434 ) . |
| 6 | Microsoft senior vice-president Paul Maritz told Compaq Computer Corp he was expecting NT to ship by the end of June and Sequent Computer Systems Inc was told pretty much the same . |
| 7 | how old he was , Nicodemus was born physically just the same as you and I were born physically . |
| 8 | In 1989 the WCFBA was renamed more simply the Catholic Biblical Federation ( CBF ) . |
| 9 | If the namecode was entered then either the Personnel Data screen would be displayed , if only one employee matched the namecode , or a selection screen showing the name , department , date of joining and staff number of those employees with that particular namecode . |