Example sentences of "was [adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bond which had drawn them so close before Angel 's birth was strong and sometimes Sarah longed to be back for a brief time in that dilapidated house in Stone Alley , free of the sanctimonious atmosphere of the rectory , until she remembered Maggie was n't there any more either . |
| 2 | Our cover was terrific and neither Scotland Yard bodyguard had a chance of spotting us . |
| 3 | Dalgliesh had a respect for Morgan as a man and a detective but was grateful that either duty , tact or a mixture of both had taken him away . |
| 4 | By the morning of Friday 10 November it was clear that neither Chamberlain nor Long would secure a majority and that some supporters of each of them would not contentedly follow the other . |
| 5 | ‘ But my strategy was clear and once Riccardo had gone out — and he was really the last chance of anybody catching me — I just had to stay calm and not worry about winning . ’ |
| 6 | and luckily that the , the song that we did was funny and so people enjoyed it , but they did n't understand it and they did n't have a visual image of the artist 's work , so I now have to take erm a couple of pictures , er prints with me if ever were going to read it and we sing those songs but not everybody does , and then they do become excessible you know , they can see , you know , that erm , yes erm if it , if I was going to publish a book of poem I , it would have to be stated that this related to this picture and presumably it 'd have to be , it would be with it , with it |
| 7 | The situation was such that even Minton could become fussed if Vaughan made first use of Ricky 's Daily Mirror . |
| 8 | The Administration 's interpretation of this proviso was such that only Britain was able to benefit from it . |
| 9 | ‘ But I was fortunate because then Stoddard took over as a professionally run and profitable company and I 've spent 11 happy years with them . ’ |
| 10 | Geography , see Michelle should have I was conscious that perhaps Michelle was gon na be a bit out of that bit , some of those |
| 11 | But from April onwards it was obvious that either Huddersfield or Cardiff would win the Championship . |
| 12 | Brighton was better but then Graf was playing . |
| 13 | Most of it was helpful and extremely kind . ’ |
| 14 | There is no doubt that dishonest or surreptitious acquisition of information is usually overwhelming evidence that information was confidential and not part of the defendant 's skill and knowledge . |
| 15 | LIKE the Royal Academy of Arts , Denis Serjeant , its Surveyor , was brilliant and mildly maverick . |
| 16 | The national insurance scheme , on the other hand , was contributory but not means tested . |
| 17 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |
| 18 | This was unexpected as previously ozone losses had tended to follow a two-year cycle , with shallower holes evident in even-numbered years . |
| 19 | It was unlikely that either men would ever walk properly again . |
| 20 | The roller-coaster cliff-top walk was tiring but both Vanessa and I were spurred on as we approached the final climb up Golden Cap . |
| 21 | That 's what I did when Ann was small But then Jerry was n't interested in shopping anyway . |
| 22 | The constitution contained a great deal that was familiar but also differences . |
| 23 | The judge had to ensure that the trial was fair and thus evidence should only be excluded if necessary to ensure that fairness , that is if its probative value was outweighed by its prejudicial effect . |
| 24 | It was nationalist and virulently anticommunist . |
| 25 | In order to get the best results from the new seeds , technology in the form of machinery , chemical products and fertilisers , was necessary and therefore capital was required to purchase these . |
| 26 | Jana contended that the Phoenician empire was Arab and therefore Venice was once part of a Pan-Arab civilisation , not to mention the other claim that many Venetians have Arab roots from ninth-century traders . |
| 27 | But he added that the county 's tourism and leisure industries would grow in importance because the local economic base was wider than simply manufacturing . |
| 28 | I was surprised cos yesterday Claire came in and she said , ooh , it 's really foggy tonight mum ! |