Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [pron] [was/were] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catt accepts that it was only a minor detail in her boyfriend 's sacking but feels it has a relevance . |
| 2 | It Rings if there was n't a will there would n't be a bill perhaps ? |
| 3 | Now Councillor thinks that it was just an accident and people will understand . |
| 4 | The mother says that it was not a wrongful removal and that , even if it was , she has a defence under article 13 in that there is a grave risk that the return of the child would expose him to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place him in an intolerable situation . |
| 5 | The couple have now left Ross on wye , Jonathans girfriend says that it was only a small minority who were involved in racial abuse but it was so unpleasant they now feel they ca n't live there any longer . |
| 6 | It echoes many other tributes to his industry ; and it shows that he was indeed a good family man . |
| 7 | The northern manor house was formerly thought to be secondary to the Norman one , but it now seems that they were originally a pair . |
| 8 | Nothing is known of Freeth 's education or his early years , although it seems that he was once an itinerant street ballad-singer . |
| 9 | That means that they were not a good fit in the first place . ’ |
| 10 | Some scholars have claimed that the fact that Ambrose did not give an exact site for the church — indeed , it seems he was actually careful not to — means that it was not a real church at all , merely a metaphor . |
| 11 | This fact alone implies that it was not an exhausting activity but was used for relaxation and entertainment . |
| 12 | There is no serious challenge to this account and the impression remains that he was not a ‘ madman ’ but a normal man who had met a hitch-hiker who unusually ‘ spurned sex ’ . |
| 13 | Carl N. Degler , using evidence from women of the urban middle class in America ( the class to which Acton 's work was directed ) , together with a survey of married women 's sexual attitudes begun in the 1890s by Dr C. D. Mosher , argues that it was more an ideology seeking to be established than the prevalent view or practice of even middle-class women . |
| 14 | This suggests that there was not a close link between the growth of broad money and the rate of inflation for most of the 1980s . |
| 15 | Anderson ( 1971 ) , for example , suggests that there was actually an increase in extended households in this period . |
| 16 | The timber trade argues if there was n't a demand by British customers for mahogany products they would n't sell it . |