Example sentences of "was [conj] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it was that both the sun and our faces were shining when we took the telecabin to the top of the nearest mountain and developed a habit which was to stick like glühwein : rösti — a Swiss potato cake , fried , with two eggs on top . |
| 2 | His own proposal , accepted some months later , was that both the Board and District should become Responsible Bodies for Cambridgeshire and that mutually negotiated and harmonious arrangements for local provision be agreed between them , with financial deficits being met from the LEA grant . |
| 3 | My understanding of what what the panel said and what the what the Secretary of State agreed was that neither the panel nor the Secretary of State disagreed with the erm the general sense of the policy but felt that that sense was er embodied and and was able to be applied through the erm provisions of other policies in the plan at that time . |
| 4 | Er Madam Deputy Speaker , one of the difficulties addressed during the consultation exercise was that neither the term auditor , nor the phrase in his capacity as auditor , were defined in the banking statutory instrument or in the banking act itself and the government 's mindful of the need to clarify who it is who will be placed under a duty by the statutory instruments and in which circumstances the duty will apply and while this is ultimately a question for the courts , we take the view that the duty clearly covers any auditor of a bank appointed under U K company law . |
| 5 | The implication was that only the retailers in each destination market would be permitted to vary prices according to local conditions . |
| 6 | It was rather a loveless heart , the guts were dagging , and the cunt was the driest coldest and most shrivelled of cunts , if indeed cunt it was and not an asshole in disguise . |
| 7 | He smiles at his wife lovingly and she reaches across and pats his hand , loving him for what he was and not the stranger he has become . |
| 8 | The Ben is quite a different place in winter , equally as magnificent , but free from Pac-o-macs , folding aluminium chairs , and people who want to know who Benjamin Nevis was and why the mountain is named after him . |
| 9 | I would imagine the plaster wall have to be replaced cos there 's a lot of work that needs to be done on t we 've already had to deal with the plastering once , in fact we would n't have noticed cos we had n't seen it before but what happened is that the the frame of the hall particularly shrank so that we had gaps in between where the plastering was and where the wood was and we had to have a couple of men that we used for this , erm come in with lime plaster and fill in all the cracks for a week or two . |
| 10 | I told him that I was and suddenly the ice was broken . |
| 11 | Then , his head bent forward , he noticed that the shadows were long on the grass ; in fact , there was but merely a streak of sunshine bordering the flower garden now . |
| 12 | The delay in diagnosis was because even the possibility of coeliac disease was not considered in these cases and this prolonged patient misery and uncertainty . |
| 13 | They suggest that this was because virtually no oil tankers frequented the northern Gulf during the seven months between the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the end of the war , when Iraqi and Kuwaiti oil production was subjected to a worldwide embargo . |
| 14 | The most important factor was whether all the crops were housed in the barn or whether some or all were kept in ricks in the fields , being moved to the barn for threshing . |
| 15 | There was as yet no consensus on how best to overcome the Autarch 's tyranny . |
| 16 | Although there was as yet no sign that the IRA was capable of mounting the sort of offensive which followed four years later , Paisley had no doubt where O'Neill 's reforming policy would lead : |
| 17 | There was as yet no uniformity of practice among local authorities , who continued to rely on a wide variety of examining methods , though more had turned to external test agencies — organisations or examiners — than in the past . |
| 18 | In addition , he insists that he should listen to clerical advice , even though the new ruler was as yet a pagan , as his father had been . |
| 19 | His official title ( one used at most clubs ) was secretary-manager , and as such the administration of the club was as much a part of his job as team management . |