Example sentences of "[coord] [det] was [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now erm I suppose more recently coming up the present , coming away from nineteenth century Vienna into erm I suppose really I suppose the nineteen seventies , nineteen eighties , people became much more interested in the issue of child sex abuse again and this was n't really because of any great developments in clinical psychology or psychiatry . |
| 2 | And this was not simply because she wished to be above reproach : it was also because , nearing her time , she found the eight-year-old boy exhausting . |
| 3 | Examining the effects of histology , histological type , the early mortality patient with benign was point three percent and this was significantly less than the early mortality for those patients who had prostate cancer , which was two point nine percent , almost ten times greater . |
| 4 | Yet had the visitors been England or Australia he may well not have been able to resist the temptation , and this was only partly because they were the leading lights in world cricket ; there was also the racial aspect , in that he passionately wanted to prove that a team of black players led by a black captain was the equal of , if not better than , the white teams . |
| 5 | The numbers were vast and this was very largely because the movies were not just appealing to sections of the masses but to the masses in general . |
| 6 | She and Carolan had no children , but that was neither here nor there as an indication of matrimonial harmony nowadays . |
| 7 | But that was neither here nor there . |
| 8 | The cost would be borne by Grunte Accessories , but that was neither here nor there . |
| 9 | But that was not enough when it came to the Maastricht debate . |
| 10 | The princess kissed the frog and he did n't turn into a handsome prince but that was all right because she liked him as a frog . |
| 11 | Before , we were just listening to everybody else telling us to keep on playing and carry on doing this and that , but that was really just because they were afraid we were going to be a flash in the pan . |
| 12 | But this was not simply because Mary was sent to France . |
| 13 | But this was probably more because of interference than natural decay : ‘ The bones [ are ] firmly united and the flesh and skin dried up like tanned leather . |