Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was called to the administration block of the hospital and later went to register the death , and to make an appointment with an undertaker — this was for ten o'clock the next morning . |
| 2 | In other words , he endeavoured to introduce into Siberia something which was after all only a rudimentary concept at that time in metropolitan Russia , that is , the ‘ rule of law ’ . |
| 3 | Yeah , erm , we , we thought we 'd got him calmed down at one point and he started up again and he was like that right the way up till I went to fetch Emily |
| 4 | Whatever the official view of police work , to those on the ground , it was above all else a job . |
| 5 | It was above all else a moral philosophy , the means by which the oppressed members of society came to understand the source of their oppression and worked towards its overthrow . |
| 6 | For Nizan , it was above all else the year of the Spanish experience . |
| 7 | when I was in that nearly a fortnight . |
| 8 | In general one might say that Law has become marginally less distinct from other subjects than it was in that quite a few people are doing cross disciplinary research , e.g. in law and economics and law and society . |
| 9 | Workhouse building , despite the permitting of parishes to combine for the purpose in 1723 , was until 1750 largely an urban phenomenon , for in the countryside out-relief was proving itself a more flexible and still not frighteningly expensive option . |
| 10 | Since the lift as constructed used virtually no water , there was from 1900 onwards no flow northward from Foxton . |
| 11 | Okay and erm when Dennis was on okay about a week ago |