Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or eleven was n't it ? |
| 2 | George knew very well there was not a household in Oldfield , Nether Oldfield or Oldfield St Benet where that was not the case . |
| 3 | Where that was so and the workforce was invited , or itself proposed , to set up an industrial co-operative , but understood the preservation of every job to be the prime objective , the necessary conditions for effective management were absent from the start . |
| 4 | ‘ I could n't find a mirror I liked or that was even the right size , so I decided to have one handmade that would incorporate the colours and the theme of the living room , ’ said Geoff . |
| 5 | Or that was how it had looked on the final report . |
| 6 | Some teachers will , of course , say when asked , " it did n't work " , but in a surprising number of cases this turns out to mean , not that the students ' learning or involvement was less than had been predicted or hoped for , but that the exercise for one reason or another was too difficult to set up . |
| 7 | ( In a secondary school where this was regularly used in morning prayers it had to be abandoned because the pupils exploited the rhythm created by the parallelism to make it sound like a football chant ! ) |
| 8 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 9 | Even where this was not the case , Rusche and Kirchheimer argued that the choice of methods of punishment is largely influenced by fiscal interests , such as how much a punishment costs to administer . |
| 10 | It was agreed that where possible a system of barter would operate , with for example Estonia bartering electricity for Latvian gas ; where this was not possible accounting would be based on the deutschmark . |
| 11 | Signatures were mostly readable , but where this was not possible , it was noted as ‘ Indecipherable ’ . |
| 12 | Both engagements illustrate Franco 's obsession with retaking lost territory , even where this was strategically unnecessary , regardless of the cost in terms of matériel , time and human suffering . |
| 13 | A clear intention of the changes was to enable care managers to buy domiciliary support , rather than residential care , where this was both more appropriate and inexpensive . |
| 14 | Where this was so it will be discussed , together with other comments , in the brief ‘ case descriptions ’ attached at the end of each of the chapters that follow . |
| 15 | Mitzi , who was Brown Owl 's assistant , told them when asked that there was no limit to the number of bridesmaids a bride could have , but that two or three was most usual , for various reasons that she explained . |
| 16 | His eyes indicated the room above where all was now silent , the sounds of hunting having subsided . |
| 17 | Still , the differentiation of the peasantry into rich and poor or landless was also marked in the advanced Czech lands , as is indicated by the fact that the number of goats — the typical poor man 's animal — almost doubled between 1846 and 1869 . |
| 18 | In retrospect it may seem that the trend was already irresistible — the First World War certainly made it so — but who is to say that a positive imperial policy pursued energetically in 1902 or 1912 was inevitably doomed to failure ? |
| 19 | Eleven or twelve was n't he ? |
| 20 | Losing a lamb or two was not unusual , but a dead calf was a serious matter . |
| 21 | I joined them and the going for a week or two was very hard . |
| 22 | The slaying of Osred in 716 at the age of 19 or 20 was certainly an event of some significance for it broke the monopoly of royal power which the descendants of Aethelfrith had maintained since the accession of Oswald . |
| 23 | The nature of matters which would be characterised as collateral or preliminary was still difficult to determine and it was admitted that there could be errors of law within jurisdiction which , if they appeared on the face of the record , would be quashed . |
| 24 | The Caucasian peoples — Georgians , Armenians and Azerbaijanis are also very different in their history , religion , language and culture than the Slavic majority , and they have historically been no less conscious of those differences than the Baltic peoples ( there were mass riots in the Georgian capital Tbilisi in 1978 , for instance , when it appeared that Georgian was about to be dropped as one of the republic 's official languages ) . |
| 25 | The remainder — Va'aiga Tuigamala and Walter Little in the backs , Paul Henderson and Graham Purvis in the pack — have largely been back-up strength in recent times , although Little was busily occupied at first five-eighths in four of the tests this season . |
| 26 | Its clientele was drawn from every part of the world , and the owner was a tiny German whom everyone called Fritz , although that was n't his real name . |
| 27 | But that 's how cash was counted in those days and erm , the waybill was marked to agree with a man 's statement of what his cash added up to and then the cash next day was counted up bolt because there was Priory Heath to take care of , although that was n't a media when I first went down there , that opened later on , but there was the two got to be married together and then conveyed to the bank the next day , or , on the Monday if it was a Saturday or Sunday . |
| 28 | The three parties fought the elections for the Constitutional Convention as a coalition with a joint manifesto which-emphasised that Northern Ireland should remain indefinitely as an integral part of the United Kingdom and that power would not be shared with Republicans although that was not an objection to Catholics as such . |
| 29 | Sally-Anne McAllister — although that was not her real name — walked along Vetch Street in London 's East End late on a hot afternoon in the early summer of 1903 . |
| 30 | Forne of Skirpenbeck took away the bowl , although that was not his business , and came back with a leg of pork , the burnt seaweed still sticking to it . |