Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was odd how the scar had remained all these years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yes , you you 've got to extend the route , well of course you 've got to put up , trolley poles every for about forty yards and then of course there was two lengths of trolley wire that had to go because as you know trolley buses used to have two arms , positive and negative supply and er , of course the bus had to come back er alongside the premiu the outward route , it come on , so you had four wires up there and the cost of copper wire was terrific so the motor buses were developed and we expenim experimented with the buses on , on extensions mainly but when the extensions were finished we then begradged because trolley wires were then beginning to wear out , rather than replace them they would convert a trolley route into a bus route , and erm because the erm , there was a lot of people hated to see the demise of the trolley buses because they were so clean and silent and the buses came , you got the deal sloke and lumbering of the old engines , that a lot of people hated to see the trolley buses go but cos that was the , the reason that they went . |
| 5 | ‘ Was that not a bit risky ? ’ |
| 6 | But was that not the stable where little Tom … ? |
| 7 | Was that not the reason behind Kronweiser 's enquiry at Olivera 's ? |
| 8 | Miss Logan , embarrassed by Our Lord 's words to Nicodemus , was instead thinking about bitumen : was that not the material used by artists to blacken the shadows in their paintings ? |
| 9 | Was that just a shadow by the house , or was someone hiding there , watching her ? |
| 10 | Was that even a tear in his eye ? |
| 11 | Was that why a handful of Cork 's Jews had decided to emigrate to Palestine ? |
| 12 | How often did she get that , was that once a week ? |
| 13 | Was that quite a kind of regular thing ? |
| 14 | Rather it suggests that intercourse was normal once a couple began to " keep company " and considered each other " promised " . |
| 15 | Now , now you were saying before your father er was unemployed quite a lot of the time during your childhood erm did he actually get any Unemployment Benefit while he was on the dole ? |
| 16 | Mellor was 30 when the voters of Putney in West London elected him their Tory MP in 1979 — the election that swept Margaret Thatcher to power . |
| 17 | the movement which , at the close of the colonial era , led it to be asked of the West what entitles its culture , its science , its social organization , and finally its rationality itself , to be able to claim universal validity : was this not a mirage associated with economic domination and political hegemony ? |
| 18 | Was this then the moment to come clean , he wondered ? |
| 19 | Grandfather , the youngest son of Count Nikolai Denknetzeyan , was nineteen when the revolution broke out . |
| 20 | It was nearly four in the morning by now , and Boy was ready to sleep ; not exhausted , but content , knowing that the night was perfect just the way it was . |
| 21 | If the actor was real then the film was real and it worked . |
| 22 | Club member Harry Porter ( born 1902 ) was six when the course opened and he remembers dimly walking the first hole with the crowd . |
| 23 | The same principle applies to the highest key on any track ; as the highest key on track 06 was 298 when the file was created , a record with the key 299 belongs logically to track 07 , whether it is stored on that track already or has not yet been added . |
| 24 | About three months before the actual event took place all leave was cancelled , even 24 hour passes , and Bomber Command was operational nearly every night , bad weather or good . |
| 25 | His voice was hearty yet the answer did not convince her . |
| 26 | It was well over a year since his sister had married Dunbar and gone off to the West Indies , where , according to her spasmodic letters , she was having ‘ an utterly marvellous ’ time . |
| 27 | It was well over a year before Communist policy changed radically " though it had undergone substantial modification . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | Ruth was beginning to feel it was all just a dream ; part of her mind felt detached , quite separate from her body . |
| 30 | 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 . |