Example sentences of "was [det] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , given that they had little , if any , social contact with the ‘ older ’ user group , there was little street wisdom about the consequences of heroin use . |
| 2 | It was also noted that there was little family concern for Todd and since his coming to the home his parents had been divorced . |
| 3 | In the period after 1945 the Liberals were at a very low ebb and had significant support only in rural areas of Scotland , Wales and South-West England where industrial development was largely absent and so there was little trade union activity . |
| 4 | The general SVQ in technology was particularly attractive to us , as our construction section was suffering , at least temporarily , from the economic downturn , and whilst there was little training activity in the building sector , it was being predicted that this was not likely to be a long-term situation . |
| 5 | The issue which divided public opinion largely revolved around the ineffectiveness of the prison system and the ease with which convicts could bamboozle prison chaplains into believing that their characters had been reformed , thus securing their release on ‘ ticket-of-leave ’ , and there was little room fur the idea that the roots of crime might be found in social conditions . |
| 6 | There was little class consciousness in the European sense among the peasantry or urban workers in the nineteenth century , though occupational groups such as washermen , carters or fishermen could unite at the local level to protect their economic interests . |
| 7 | One of the possible reasons suggested for the relationship between risk and recall in Study 1 was that performing risk-related judgment tasks while driving had made that information particularly memorable . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The end of that talk was that Farmer Olinton said he 'd be only too pleased for the Brownies to use his loft for Pack Meetings , and if Miss Truscott would call on him they 'd arrange the whole thing . |
| 10 | The outcome in the wider area of Church organization was that while Protestantism surrendered more and more to nationalism , Erastianism and/or fragmentation , Catholicism held these forces in check through clericalism , centralization and an enhanced uniformity . |
| 11 | It is important to grasp what it was that peace activists thought they were trying to prevent . |
| 12 | The unexpected element in the result , however , was that second place went not to Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki but to Stanislaw Tyminski , an emigré businessman who had no previous political experience and was virtually unknown until the last weeks of the campaign . |
| 13 | The problem with the stock market crash was that index arbitrage and portfolio insurance had the effect of feeding off each other and driving down share prices . |
| 14 | " Their attitude was that air condition , which was more equated to comfort than health , was solely the responsibility of the employer . " |
| 15 | Among the many fictions maintained in ffeatherstonehaugh 's was that committee members were busy men . |
| 16 | The inference that was clearly to be drawn from their study was that land reform/land redistribution was the critical factor in the peasant problem : even if the peasants ' lot could be improved by less drastic means . |
| 17 | The rule-of-thumb ‘ law ’ that emerged from these tests was that road damage varied with the fourth power of the axle load . |
| 18 | THE STORY was that Breakfast News ( BBC 1 ) , the third relaunch of the cereal television which began in 1983 as Breakfast Time with Frank Bough and Selina Scott chummy in jumpers , was going serious . |
| 19 | Keeble ( 1980 ) had included this variable as a proxy for ‘ the restructuring hypothesis ’ , by which he meant the argument that the real reason for decentralization was that manufacturing industry was under pressure to cut costs and had changed location in a search for cheaper , ‘ green ’ labour . |
| 20 | An alternative phantasy to create refuge from the insoluble problem of work was that work life in a small factory would be ideal . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The incredible thing at this " halfway " stage was that crew morale was as high as it was . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | What was that noise Mummy ? |
| 25 | What was that rally car then ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Erm , and the reports that I 've had back from the governors was that Concept Catering was so , so absolutely certain that they were the only people who could do it , that when they were faced with competition , they had n't got the faintest idea how to respond to it . |
| 28 | Mr Justice Hobhouse dismissed B's claim , saying that the statutory intention behind the Regulations , stated in s 203 , TA 1988 , was that income tax should be deducted by a person making any payment of or on account of any income assessable to tax under Sch E. There was a statutory obligation to deduct tax unless either the Regulations showed that there was to be no such obligation or they failed to provide any machinery whereby the payer could make a deduction . |
| 29 | It was that Southeast Asia was ‘ the target of a co-ordinated offensive plainly directed by the Kremlin ’ . |
| 30 | And was that meat pie alright ? |