Example sentences of "was [adj] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Was that just a shadow by the house , or was someone hiding there , watching her ? |
| 5 | Was that even a tear in his eye ? |
| 6 | How often did she get that , was that once a week ? |
| 7 | Was that quite a kind of regular thing ? |
| 8 | Rather it suggests that intercourse was normal once a couple began to " keep company " and considered each other " promised " . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Was this then the moment to come clean , he wondered ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If the actor was real then the film was real and it worked . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His voice was hearty yet the answer did not convince her . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was well over a year before Communist policy changed radically " though it had undergone substantial modification . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | Ruth was beginning to feel it was all just a dream ; part of her mind felt detached , quite separate from her body . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Helen replied enigmatically that it was all just a question of experience . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Maybe it was all just a game to him , these stirring pulses and loaded glances , and chemical reactions . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was all just a moment 's mental aberration ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was all rather a relief . |
| 27 | For an unpretentious suburban Gasthof it was all rather a surprise . |
| 28 | At the end he asked me about myself , curtly , as if it was all rather a bore . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was all only an excuse . |