Example sentences of "was [adv] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That was rather the impression that I gathered , sir , ’ the lawyer said with a lift of one ironic eyebrow . |
| 2 | In the front line Vlasov was noted for wearing the plainest of khaki uniforms without decorations or insignia ; this was presumably the gymnastiorka and sharovari . |
| 3 | Pat saw just how true that was so the night that Ken was due to go out with one of his current close friends . |
| 4 | The Profumo affair was merely the focus and catalyst for the coming to a head of that revolution in the mood and character of English life which had begun to show itself in the late summer of 1955 . |
| 5 | ‘ It was basically the novel that made it necessary for me to look into the Bible . |
| 6 | This was especially the case when the relationship between lord and vassal was somewhat remote , either because the vassal was virtually independent of his lord , as were most of the vassals of the king of France , or because the vassal had many different lords . |
| 7 | This was especially the case when pragmatism was conjoined to a legal positivist outlook . |
| 8 | This was especially the case if it appeared that government legislation was being flouted . |
| 9 | The removal of Franca from the upper storey was perhaps the sign that her arrival was imminent . |
| 10 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 11 | The enormity of ‘ one roof ’ had taken her by surprise , and it was perhaps the way that had stiffened her which made her now feel so free , so beyond obligation . |
| 12 | The 1959 decree did not fundamentally change the existing situation — argue Missika and Woltons — but it was perhaps the text that , more than any other , showed that ‘ public service broadcasting ’ would not develop on lines akin to Britain 's BBC . |
| 13 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 14 | It was perhaps the argument that this imposition of middle-class morality was holding back the British cinema which led to the matter becoming an issue of public concern . |
| 15 | This was perhaps the final and clinching element of a strenuous programme of persuasion on the part of Gordon Thomas , for shortly after came the committee 's decision to go ahead at Foxton . |
| 16 | As a corollary to this , there was perhaps the suspicion that some of the opposition to the Bill came from politicians who wanted an alternative press in order to enhance their own political future . |
| 17 | When I saw your hair — ’ touching it lovingly , fingering the fiery strands ‘ — it was perhaps the trigger that sprang the flame . |
| 18 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |
| 19 | Yes , there was only the sea and the sky light carnival . |
| 20 | To most people it was only the text that could be found lacking . |
| 21 | ‘ I knew there were only seconds to go and could feel my strength failing with each moment , and a drifting kind of sleep coming on me which whispered , ‘ Give up , Minch , give up … ’ and it was only the knowledge that I was of Callanish , the greatest of the sites , that kept me fighting those few more seconds . |
| 22 | The High Street had been left to the pimps and the down-and-outs , and in the ancient College grounds where once the Black Friars had taught and studied in a universe made of crystal spheres , there was only the clang and clatter of brake couplings and buffers . |
| 23 | It was only the breeze when the car was moving that made the warm air breathable . |
| 24 | Yet when I came to think about it , it was only the slang that I did n't quite understand . |
| 25 | But Danjit was only the hand that held the vibroblade . |
| 26 | For a moment there was only the stillness and the boy watching , the soft soughing of the wind in the trees across the water and the faint , lulling call of pigeons in the wood . |
| 27 | It was only the killing that was hard . |
| 28 | The German soldiers — who had learned their fighting on the Russian Front , at Monte Cassino and through the hedgerows of Normandy — had proved a match for the guerrillas , and it was only the indifference and boredom of the French public to a war which proved astronomically expensive in financial and human terms which led the French government to seek a political settlement . |
| 29 | And there was only the maidservant and me . |
| 30 | Erm and that how that but through land reform it meant that how that you had erm credit difficulties and that how that landlords who prev previously provided the credit were no longer there and so that meant that how that erm that exasperated problems of increasing productivity and also there was a severe shortage of farm implements and animals cos they were n't redistributed , there was only the surplus that was taken away from the rich peasants and landlords , it meant that how that the , the rich peasants erm you know , got back er they sort of were a self-perpetuating elite in that how the poor peasants just did n't have the means to improving their production . |