Example sentences of "was [adj] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know exactly what it was , but er er it was potted meat sandwiches er and tea . |
| 2 | It was strange seeing nuns outside . |
| 3 | Someone was balancing precariously on a ladder , inserting four-foot candles into gilt sockets on the wall while his partner was hanging gold balloons and purple streamers below . |
| 4 | Them was used college puddings . |
| 5 | The result was combined schools workshops ( Ruddock , 1981 ) , speakers on topics of mutual interest to teachers , and some attempts to encourage teachers to consider basic curriculum planning through group activity ( Small , 1982 ; Oldroyd et al , 1984 ; Easen 1985 ) . |
| 6 | The reason why they maintained these holdings in dollars , rather than selling them for some other currency , was that dollar investments in New York remained attractive despite the decline in the relative value of the dollar in the early seventies . |
| 7 | It is important to grasp what it was that peace activists thought they were trying to prevent . |
| 8 | Among the many fictions maintained in ffeatherstonehaugh 's was that committee members were busy men . |
| 9 | But the eventual consensus was that runner beans , which of course rely on insects for pollination , simply were n't getting enough attention from them . |
| 10 | The conclusion of a deep and extensive report on day-care surgery published a year ago by the Audit Commission was that waiting lists for day-care surgery could be cut by a third through the more efficient use of such surgery . |
| 11 | The direct result of this was that government institutions , especially the bureaucratic side of government , were comparatively undeveloped ; and to those precociously centralized kingdoms , England and France — and therefore , of course , to those who influenced Mary — Scotland appeared backward and less controlled . |
| 12 | The effect of the Court 's judgment was that insurance companies from other member states were free to choose whether to do business in France through an agency or branch on the one hand , or through a subsidiary registered in France on the other , without suffering any tax disadvantages as a result . |
| 13 | What the psychologists showed was that stimulus elements in groups had properties not present in the individual elements . |
| 14 | A response was that member States would be unlikely to give organisations such far-reaching powers and to empower them to implement such an agreement , unless the intention was to create a supra-national organisation . |
| 15 | The book represents an attempt to explain the series of unexpected corporate failures over the past few years and why it was that company accounts do not appear to have given adequate warning of what was to happen . |
| 16 | One member of the Lindop committee , Paul Sieghart , a lawyer , told New Scientist last week that the chief officers feeling in 1978 ‘ was that intelligence systems — with unverified non-factual information — should not find their way into factual systems , and therefore [ the data ] should not be retrieved by people looking for factual information . ’ |
| 17 | The excuse that filtered through to the press was that jury members did n't consider the film sufficiently ‘ German ’ . |
| 18 | The difficulty was that capital schemes often required current funding if they were to operate . |
| 19 | Broadly , the distinguishing principle was that capital gains tax was charged on increases in the current use value of land only , while betterment levy was charged on increases in development value . |
| 20 | Another objection was that parking spaces at the home are inadequate , visitors can be seen using our parking spaces or parking in Tower Close , another narrow road . |
| 21 | The first moves towards dating involved the ordering of finds according to an assumed technological development : the theory was that stone tools preceded copper tools , copper tools preceded bronze tools , bronze tools preceded iron tools , and that iron tools continued in use into the historical period when dates could be obtained from written records . |
| 22 | The era of sealing wax and string was beginning to come to its end , although the end was far off ; in the Cavendish Laboratory under Rutherford in the 1930s the story was that research workers asking for string were made to say how many inches of it they needed . |
| 23 | The first condition for South Africa 's return to the Olympics was that apartheid laws should be eradicated ; it looks as though that will be met . |
| 24 | This was that pension funds , like life insurance companies , were too willing to invest in overseas companies , by implication ‘ starving ’ British industry of capital . |
| 25 | What had to be done was that motion pictures had to be made respectable . |
| 26 | The main complaint from psychiatrists was that referral letters were too brief , with key information ( particularly the attitude of the family to the referral and to involvement of other agencies ) often absent . |
| 27 | What was found was that referral types were spread fairly equally across both time periods except in the case of sexual abuse referrals where 9 out of 12 referrals were received in hours . |
| 28 | Now that meant that there was massively increasing pressure on China 's land , and there was growing parcelization of the land and what was happening was that peasant families would of very often er produce two or three sons |
| 29 | In the study area what actually happened was that food crops were displaced from the head to the end of the fertilizer rotation in more than half the cases . |
| 30 | The only modification offered by Law in response to the outcry from Unionist free-traders was that food taxes would be imposed only if requested by the Dominions ; after his talks with Borden , there was no doubt about this anyway . |