Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not even a special building was required , for since the Master was , as required by the will , a priest in Holy Orders singing masses for his patron at an altar in the Parish Church , it is entirely conceivable that the School 's first home was somewhere in that Church . |
| 2 | The access door was somewhere in that square . |
| 3 | At the symposium , ‘ Are You Prepared for IT ? ’ , hosted by Zenith Data Systems , Gates spoke out on object programming , saying he thought the concept was just another hype that extends far beyond the reality available today — having said that , he said to look out for Microsoft 's Object Linking and Embedding 2.0 ‘ during 1993 ’ , saying he was all for any technology that will enable the economical re-use of parts of programs . |
| 4 | ‘ He was obviously in some pain . ’ |
| 5 | Fernie was obviously in some distress . |
| 6 | This idea was so firmly rooted that it was perhaps for this reason that these results from radio astronomy seem not to have been widely accepted at first . |
| 7 | But the unpublished manuscript , given to Tom Poole , was destroyed in 1931 by Gordon Wordsworth , who evidently regarded the subject of adultery and murder as too sordid even for the twentieth century.4 The effect on Coleridge of what Tom Poole had told them both was perhaps of most significance . |
| 8 | It was the human element that decided efficiency and it was perhaps in this sphere that training could play an important part . |
| 9 | She was sure it would get Edouard and his wife into trouble , and she kept saying it was only for another day or two . ’ |
| 10 | It was only for another week . |
| 11 | Interestingly , it was only with this loss that many husbands realised the importance of their spouse 's wage to the family . |
| 12 | Furthermore , it was only during this period that scientific advance identified the main links between insanitary conditions and disease . |
| 13 | And she knew she did , but it was only during this moment that it had happened , in this moment of revelation . |
| 14 | It was only at that point that we felt confident that the field-worker was being talked to by respondents as a person rather than as some novel sex object , and the veracity of what they said could be treated by us with more confidence . |
| 15 | It was only at this stage , when representatives from different professional and administrative structures began to be consulted , that official worry and concern about the scale of heroin use began to take shape . |
| 16 | It was only at this stage that the dowry of the bride , which would usually have included both jewels and the title deeds to land , was actually handed over by the bride 's parents though details of the dowry would have been settled right at the beginning at Stage 1 of the proceedings . |
| 17 | It was only at this point that CNN complied with the restraining order and ceased broadcasting excerpts from the tapes pending an appeal to the Supreme Court . |
| 18 | The fact that it is only at puberty that initiation occurs today and that it was only at this age that young males came to pose a threat to the peace and stability of early human societies seems to have had , quite apart from its evident social and psychological consequences , important physiological ones as well . |
| 19 | I was only in that post for two years , but during that period we closed a lot of works . |
| 20 | Again , in a frenzied blur of storm-driven wind , ice-cold rain , glass and splintered wood , Cardiff was suddenly at that door now , tearing it open with one gloved hand while he pushed Jimmy and the girl through into the darkness . |
| 21 | And it was apparently during that hospital visit that Ross and his brother had had a long serious talk about what would be best for the children . |
| 22 | The impact angle was very shallow and the aircraft was apparently under some control as it settled only three feet over a horizontal distance of 420 feet . |
| 23 | It was a catch-all for every kind of opinion which was literally in any way remarkable . ’ |
| 24 | Orwell 's simplicity was much like that parent-figure : it can suddenly look more complicated , and more assumed , than one had at first supposed . |
| 25 | It was thus with some caution that Labour Ministers — who stood to lose their salaries in the event of the party 's defeat — approached the question of the break-up of the coalition . |
| 26 | Zionism , too , was thus in this way a challenge to the assumptions of liberal culture . |
| 27 | In The Absoluteness of Christianity he rejected the idea that any historical phenomenon , including the Christian faith , could be absolutely and universally valid , but still tried to hold that Christianity was nevertheless in some fashion the ‘ normative ’ form of religion . |
| 28 | But his commitment was n't here ; she was away with another man … |
| 29 | One of her co-accused in the Stompie Seipei Moeketsi trial , who supported her alibi that she was away in another state at the time of the 14-year-old 's murder , now says he lied throughout the proceedings . |
| 30 | Any direction was as good as another — so long as it was away from that thing . |