Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Truman administration was widely condemned for allowing the " fall " of China , although , as Secretary of State Dean Acheson pointed out , there was little more the US could do for Chiang — short of direct intervention by US forces in the civil war . |
| 2 | DURING the months of March , April and May , while at Verdun the Germans were painfully inching forward towards the summits of Le Mort Homme and Côte 304 , in the world outside there was little enough the belligerents could find of positive comfort . |
| 3 | Was that just a shadow by the house , or was someone hiding there , watching her ? |
| 4 | Was that even a tear in his eye ? |
| 5 | How often did she get that , was that once a week ? |
| 6 | Was that quite a kind of regular thing ? |
| 7 | Was this then the moment to come clean , he wondered ? |
| 8 | No , no , no , wait a minute , wait a minute , let me think , this was somewhere , do n't forget they come from all over the bloody country the South of England Show erm , this scrumpy was all somewhere a bit farther north , Cotswolds or |
| 9 | Ruth was beginning to feel it was all just a dream ; part of her mind felt detached , quite separate from her body . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , a self-declared ring-leader , Paul Taylor , shouting from the roof tops , has claimed that it was all just a sit-in protest that got out of control . |
| 11 | Helen replied enigmatically that it was all just a question of experience . |
| 12 | But he was n't frightened , because he knew that it was all just a joke , a little comedy of the kind fathers like to play with their sons . |
| 13 | Maybe it was all just a game to him , these stirring pulses and loaded glances , and chemical reactions . |
| 14 | It was all just a sort of angry joke because the rest of the gang , and Ashton in particular , would n't agree with him about the best way to fill holes in . |
| 15 | It was all just a moment 's mental aberration ! |
| 16 | The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else . |
| 17 | It was all rather a relief . |
| 18 | For an unpretentious suburban Gasthof it was all rather a surprise . |
| 19 | At the end he asked me about myself , curtly , as if it was all rather a bore . |
| 20 | He started to smile , teasing me , and for the second time I was convinced that someone would flourish it back to existence , that it was all only a game . |
| 21 | It was all only an excuse . |