Example sentences of "[conj] was [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or was that just based on you being there whenever you had to be there . |
| 2 | But erm did that have a message , or was that just a fun thing for you to do ? |
| 3 | The Connection , or was that on I T V ? |
| 4 | In one case in the community homes it says staff absence , and I 'm not clear what there is for training purposes , but I would hope that we are checking , or was this simply before Christmas , or what ? |
| 5 | Nor was Bayezid alone held up to reproach . |
| 6 | Then he fiddled with the controls until he had produced a clear sound that was audible even over the wind . |
| 7 | We went to see one that was twelve only . |
| 8 | He was sure that the girl had something to hide , something that was embarrassing rather than incriminating , but he could not imagine what it was . |
| 9 | That 's the one that was due today . |
| 10 | While Kāli fumbled , striking the flint against the steel , trying to produce a spark that was strong enough to light the little piece of cotton , they told me how pleased they were to see me working just like them . |
| 11 | so and I thought I could just leave him sort of like a message that was subtle enough |
| 12 | What was required was a fine line that was supple enough and strong enough to do both tasks . |
| 13 | The best we could do was to arrange for some of our experienced investigators to spend a few days explaining how we worked , and then to attach our visitors to a particular investigation that was current so that they could experience the practical application of our methods . |
| 14 | ‘ I was utterly miserable , ’ she recalls , ‘ I was in the position where I could actually get work to a standard that was good enough to attract support but there were n't any funds . ’ |
| 15 | But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System-and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate . |
| 16 | Yeah well we we thought we would erm erm try and get the Asian community involved and we included some sequences with Asian clothes with Asian music an tha that was all very impressing for for the white people as well as the Asian people in the audience . |
| 17 | ‘ I was extraordinarily lucky in starting off in a post that was small enough and compact enough to enable me to meet quite a sizeable proportion of the population . ’ |
| 18 | She chose a slightly flared skirt of fawn flannel , plain white silk shirt with a demurely high neckline , a jacket in soft pastel-brown tweed with a standing collar , absolutely plain but very expensive Italian court shoes and a matching handbag that was small enough to be ladylike but not so small as to seem frivolous . |
| 19 | It was not an order that was available simply by way of agreement . |
| 20 | But dancing made her remember a cold Candlemas Eve , and every sentimentally crooned love song reminded her of something that was best not remembered , and she was n't ready , yet , to stick out her chin and smile . |
| 21 | The sea washed over her , swirling the headscarf into foam that was crimson already . |
| 22 | Walpole , who had kept his hands almost clean , began the task of rebuilding , a task that was possible only with the cooperation of the Bank of England and the East India Company in taking up some of the over-issued stock . |
| 23 | Attlee 's arguments pointed clearly to the foreign policy eventually pursued by the post-war Labour Government — attempting to manipulate the emerging US superpower in a way that was compatible both with the maintenance of Britain 's overseas Empire and with her traditionally limited commitment to entanglement in European affairs . |
| 24 | Again the rate of RNA replication dropped , but after another 10 or so test-tube transfers a strain of RNA had evolved that was immune even to the higher concentration of poison . |
| 25 | At Mallia , the foundation course projected far enough from the rest of the wall to make a ledge that was wide enough to sit on . |
| 26 | The testimony that was appropriate here was not about my conversion but to tell briefly of my own son who died in a cot death . |
| 27 | One recent theory says that the common ancestor of all living things was a bacteria that consumed sulphur compounds , and lived in a volcanically hot environment that was hot enough to boil water . |
| 28 | We always strove to get a solution that was acceptable all round . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't annoy me any more tonight , Shannon , ’ he said in a voice that was soft yet laden with threat . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't think I need to spell it out to you , my frightened little virgin , ’ he said in a voice that was soft yet laden with scorn . |