Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was odd how the scar had remained all these years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But was that not the stable where little Tom … ? |
| 4 | Was that not the reason behind Kronweiser 's enquiry at Olivera 's ? |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Was this then the moment to come clean , he wondered ? |
| 7 | Grandfather , the youngest son of Count Nikolai Denknetzeyan , was nineteen when the revolution broke out . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If the actor was real then the film was real and it worked . |
| 10 | Club member Harry Porter ( born 1902 ) was six when the course opened and he remembers dimly walking the first hole with the crowd . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His voice was hearty yet the answer did not convince her . |
| 13 | I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see . |
| 14 | I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see . |
| 15 | Excitement had been steadily rising in the crowded chamber during the closing stages of the debate on a new clause to be added to the Criminal Justice Bill , but jubilation found vent in a roar of cheering when it was evident how the vote had gone … |
| 16 | er I thought your chain was loose there the way it was hanging |
| 17 | When Botham was eighth out the score was 114 and there were more than five overs left . |
| 18 | Viktor was twelve when the war ended and by that time he had forgotten how to cry . |
| 19 | It was twelve o'clock the funeral was a usually at . |
| 20 | If everything was uniform then the beam diameter would go on decreasing . |
| 21 | It is to say that there was available neither the will nor the means to drive through the revolution which would have established Owen 's new order . |
| 22 | If the market was efficient then the model could not produce above normal profits for the user . |
| 23 | ‘ I was 20 when the change came , ’ he recalls . |
| 24 | She was thirty-three when the baby was born . |
| 25 | It was disconcerting how the desire not to appear a fool followed one into captivity . |