Example sentences of "was [adv] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't remember all I The last man I can remember working one was Mr , Joe , and he was down he The last one I can remember , as I say , was being operated in in the yard just down Street . |
| 2 | This , of course , was exactly what the heroines of women 's magazine stories felt in those years when they decided to chuck New York and go home to marry Henry . |
| 3 | That was exactly what the Russians intended . |
| 4 | And that was exactly what the radiologist was doing as he slowly ran his sensor over my stomach . |
| 5 | ''' That was exactly what the average person called on to make self-criticism thought : all that mattered was getting through the ritual humiliation , and then going for a drink . |
| 6 | People were very angry when Admiral Byng failed to attack the French at Minorca , and the decision to execute him for cowardice was exactly what the public wanted . |
| 7 | And that was exactly what the doctor thought ; that was precisely what helped kill her . |
| 8 | Their estimate of 7.8 per cent was exactly what the teachers were eventually awarded . |
| 9 | What I was getting was just what the salesman adviser had in his bag that would earn him commission . ’ |
| 10 | He was one of cricket 's precious characters , whose skill was rare and whose attitude was just what the game has always needed . |
| 11 | What he produced was a volume for which he really should have kept his title The Conduct of the Kitchen — a title borrowed incidentally from Meredith — because that was just what the book of menus was about : the logical and orderly conduct of a kitchen as related to daily life and seen not through the medium of a few isolated menus for special occasions , but as part of the natural order of everyday living . |
| 12 | It was just what the child needed . |
| 13 | The British press , yellow and lily-white , thrives upon competition , and a striptease at an otherwise dullish Tory Conference was just what the newsdesk ordered . |
| 14 | Six tries was just what the doctor ordered for a Gloucester team that 's been under the weather for too long this season … and this win was even more rewarding when you think that six first teamers were missing … |
| 15 | After all their financial problems and sackings a semi final was just what the accountant ordered for Derbyshire . |
| 16 | For instance a pancake race in Stockton was just what the doctor ordered . |
| 17 | Legislation has shifted more and more into the federal domain , which was not what the authors of the constitution intended . |
| 18 | This was not what the president promised . |
| 19 | By their diligent eating of carcases they had probably spared the garrison an epidemic or a pestilence , but that was not what the Collector liked about them … though clumsy on the ground , their flight was extraordinarily graceful . |
| 20 | This , however , was not what the Security Council had charged them to do and their attention was focused on the liberation of Kuwait . |
| 21 | Parliament decided that this was not what the parties to arbitration agreements either expected or wanted and abolished the case stated procedure by s1(1) of the Arbitration Act 1979 : see further 15.8.3 . |
| 22 | They would first have inspected judicial practice to see whether almost all other judges were agreed either that the words of a statute must be given their " literal " meaning , even when that was not what the legislators intended , or the opposite , that the words must not be given their literal meaning in these circumstances . |
| 23 | And Summers conceded : ‘ His style of play at times was not what the fans wanted . ’ |
| 24 | The data we have examined suggest that the poll tax was not itself the prime cause of the variation in results either between types of local authority or individual councils . |
| 25 | He often told himself he was stupid to feel like this but the sensation was real none the less . |
| 26 | Opening it up Charles found a telephone inside , but was still none the wiser . |
| 27 | Let's face it , all she 'd have to do would be to sit and let him sleep it off for a while , it was probably what the kid needed most , and he 'd never remember anything different . |
| 28 | Does , does it call into question the fact that that was really what the peasants did think and believe , or were the peasants opportunists , and if they felt they could get away with anything they would get away with anything ? |
| 29 | Now I would be the first to admit that I I 'm not a judge as accountant , I 'm an insurance broker er and erm I do n't understand er and I 'm not aware of all of the rules and regulations that affect accountants er and affect the way audits are carried out , b but I must say I was a bit surprised t to hear during the debate , er that that was really what the problem was , the problem with B C C I was this conflict of interest , that fraud was known and it was not declared er and er I think that these er these regulations should now make that considerably er more clear . |
| 30 | Was n't she the nightclub singer , Rosalli ? ’ |