Example sentences of "was [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | erm I was slowly sort of pulling a few ideas out of thin air . |
| 2 | Well I I was in the east end and of course where my mum and my aunt worked it was mostly sort of cleaning and scrubbing and charring and turning mangles in the back garden and all sorts of things . |
| 3 | It was mostly material like this which was being dumped in the mid-Atlantic . |
| 4 | In my view , then , it was rather defeatist from a vocational standpoint to adopt a stance like Mr Graham 's . |
| 5 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 6 | Incidentally , Tommy had a dog of 57 varieties called Sammy who was predominantly Spaniel by looks and devoted to him . |
| 7 | The second was that the UK was effectively part of an increasingly competitive world market so that the monopoly power of the merged firms , and the corresponding social cost of the dead-weight burden , would be small . |
| 8 | Although modern research has pointed out that women 's paid employment is underestimated by the available records ( in particular the census ) , since it was more irregular and less likely to be recorded than that of men , women 's choice of work was certainly in practice severely restricted , first and most crucially by what was effectively segregation by sex , secondly by local opportunities . |
| 9 | She said it like it was somewhere south-east of Sodom . |
| 10 | That Jesus was personally kind to women there is no reason to doubt . |
| 11 | He was very sure on his feet and there was enough rust on the pipe to make it gritty . |
| 12 | My mum and dad could n't understand why I was so shite at it ! ’ |
| 13 | The second half of this can be seen to coincide with the opinion of Chatterton which is expressed by Ackroyd 's Wilde : ‘ a strange , slight boy who was so prodigal of his genius that he attached the names of others to it . ’ |
| 14 | Surely it was merely suspense at the thought of the approaching task to be faced on account of Aunt Bertha — or was it apprehension ? |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps we could have lunch before you go ? ’ she forced out , as if the idea was merely spur of the moment , merely friendly , merely pleasant . |
| 16 | In the event , as we saw earlier , this did not appear ; there was merely condemnation of attacks on shipping moving to and from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait . |
| 17 | BEFORE THE ROMAN CONQUEST , the region we call Champagne was merely part of a fragmented group of Celtic kingdoms known as Gaul , an area of land roughly equivalent to present-day France . |
| 18 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although ‘ action ’ in section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 was to be construed liberally it could extend only to forms of legal process and did not embrace a statutory demand , the service of which was merely part of the statutorily prescribed procedure for obtaining remedies afforded to creditors by a bankruptcy order and did not of itself initiate legal proceedings ; that a solicitor was therefore not debarred by section 69(1) from serving a statutory demand for payment of his costs before the expiration of one month from the date of delivery of his bill of costs ; and that , accordingly , since the statutory demand and petition were valid , they would be remitted to the district judge for hearing ( post , pp. 1029E–F , G — 1030A , 1031E ) . |
| 19 | Although this is true in relation to the intellectual background from which both Sutherland and Cressey were writing , it is nevertheless the case that Cressey , in particular , was sufficiently part of the positivist tradition to be interested in a precise , quantifiable theory which did not automatically rule out such mechanistic approaches . |
| 20 | But he was sufficiently master of himself to resist , and pulled out of her , his heart thumping like some crazy locked up in the cell of his chest . |
| 21 | The medical school of St Mary 's Hospital , like the other London medical schools , was constitutionally part of the University of London , but was in fact academically isolated , and such research as might be undertaken had no facility for difficult chemical investigations . |
| 22 | So she was especially kind to Janice . |
| 23 | Once he put an incredibly hard , cold lump of what was obviously meat in my bowl and then stood there and watched while I sniffed at it . |
| 24 | Thus there was obviously scope for the propagation of nonparty unorthodoxies at the grass-roots level . |
| 25 | This was obviously anathema to Ricardou , in particular , and a fairly acrimonious exchange erupted during the conference sessions surrounding this question of referentiality . |
| 26 | The original was acquired recently by sporting-trophies specialist John Bowles , who is trying to trace its origins : ‘ It was originally made in Birmingham in 1891 and was obviously part of a very important piece of cricketing silver , ’ says Bowles . |
| 27 | In addition , there was obviously competition from non-print media for advertising revenue and from other goods and services for the money in the newspaper reader 's pocket . |
| 28 | It was obviously time for a change . |
| 29 | It was perhaps evidence of some restraint that Elena did not oblige Romanians to praise her for her own inventions , but only those expropriated from others . |
| 30 | The professionalized academic critic wanted to forget that there had been a time when criticism was part of literature ; and the belief that criticism or theory could be literature in themselves was perhaps part of the process of exorcizing other values and attitudes . |