Example sentences of "[vb base] [det] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a similar letter from Glasgow ; this time the writing was marginally more educated , and the paper of slightly heavier stock , but the letter was couched in the same guarded terms : a half-yearly profit that was a substantial increase on the same period last year . |
| 2 | Over the past two or three decades similar stories can be told of Pink Floyd 's ‘ Dark Side Of The Moon ’ , Mike Oldfield 's ‘ Tubular Bells ’ , Fleetwood Mac 's ‘ Rumours ’ and , of course , the 1985 sales blitz that was ‘ Brothers In Arms ’ , an LP which became the flagship of the burgeoning CD generation . |
| 3 | I had the odd George II and George III copper , but these were in the minority and it was the 17th century coinage that was popping up with some regularity . |
| 4 | Following this there may be discomfort on urination , and a vicious circle is started in which memory of previous discomfort combines with apprehension at the possibility of its recurring and perpetuates the nervousness or fear that was responsible in the first place . |
| 5 | She saw the tension and fear that was putting lines of stress around the other woman 's eyes and mouth and squeezing her hands into tight , pale fists . |
| 6 | It was not land that was bought but the prospect of self-employment . |
| 7 | Land that was not ‘ used ’ could be expropriated for the benefit of the industrious poor ; rents should be controlled , the needy farmer aided . |
| 8 | It was not until the European Court of Human Rights ruled in 1981 that the law in Northern Ireland was in breach of its convention that the process of reform started there , bringing change that was fifteen years behind England and Wales , and twenty-five years after the publication of the Wolfenden Report . |
| 9 | And the rip-off was well divided and a segment found its way to a bank account that was anonymous in all but its number . |
| 10 | ‘ My dear Mr Martins , I beg you to reconsider , to make no hasty decision , ’ came the headmaster 's voice , raised to a sort of wail that was anything but confidence-creating . |
| 11 | I do n't think the theatre 's ever been endowed with a great deal of fundings but one or two companies in the town that have been prepared to fund obviously the one that strikes me is Gilbey 's cos the Gilbey bar I mean that was funded and like they 've been over the years they have given money even fact as a sad note cos Gilbey 's have actually demised now erm General Portfolio have actually taken on the role in Harlow of funding many things if you actually look all most things that have sponsored until recently have been sponsored by General Portfolio so they 've been to the fore in er fundering funding . |
| 12 | And why the problems there is that any sort of loud music was actually buried under the auditorial I mean that was the problem that occurred and we had to sort of tone it down a bit . |
| 13 | oh well I mean that was red rag to the bull |
| 14 | Well I mean that was n't in for that reason . |
| 15 | In other words , I mean that was a basic kind of training you could get as a mechanical engineer . |
| 16 | I mean that was horrible police state |
| 17 | I mean that was , that was the dominant thing , was wha what you |
| 18 | Well er n no , not necessarily , I mean that was the worst way they could have victimize you by er making things damn awkward . |
| 19 | Erm I mean that was quite odd really , we had er quite a few white tenants coming in to one end of the building , erm just saying that , you know , We just ca n't cope with it any more . |
| 20 | And er I mean that was pre-war I 'm talking of even there . |
| 21 | So I mean that was a good solution . |
| 22 | No we could n't say nothing because I mean that was a time when you had a good job then , unemployment was just the same in the nineteen thirties . |
| 23 | in in Porthmadog or on taking on er the the Bishop of Bangor , I mean that was taking on |
| 24 | I thought ah , now that 's what a director sorts out , you know I mean that was that was er very useful . |
| 25 | If there 's a positive relationship okay I d I mean that was just recapping something I said before so if you got it you 've probably got it down twice now Okay , if you knew that there was a positive relationship between two variables and we said that their score on one of the variables was high then we would expect , although not necessarily , because w it 's not true in every case but it i there 's a general trend , we would expect that their score on the other variable would also be high . |
| 26 | I mean that was made abundantly clear by Mr Topham , who represented the Parish Council at the site meeting , whe when er one of the senior planning officers was present , so it 's an absolute nonsense if they 've gone and encouraged the developers to go for an even higher roof line . |
| 27 | Er , so I mean that was |
| 28 | I mean that was always a milkman used , there used to be er James was one of the milkmen down Palfrey , he used to come . |
| 29 | I mean that was fine , you did that alright . |
| 30 | And er my chum 's mother , she was a forewoman French polisher and he asked her to come and er work along with him you know , but it was I mean that was during the depression years , that was in the the twenties right through to the you know the The first bright spot was when the Queen Mary got started it gave people And then of course , just after that , things was beginning to pick up , but it was really preparing for war . |