Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief reason I 'd always been against abortion was that it seemed like tearing up a bill instead of paying it . |
| 2 | else you 'll you 'll be like grandma was at Mrs |
| 3 | Roger Evans , MP for Monmouth , claimed ‘ spot-listing ’ of buildings believed to be under threat was a ‘ haphazard process ’ . |
| 4 | Cognitio allowed another break with tradition : the rule that all judgments must be in money was abandoned . |
| 5 | thought that half of you being in love was , was lust any way . |
| 6 | Love , she was swiftly realising , was hell — being in love was hell ! |
| 7 | I 've forgotten , about being in mud was it a ? |
| 8 | The last time that a scolds ' cage is recorded as being in use was when two Looe ladies , Hannah Wit and Bessy Niles , both being of ‘ fluent tongue ’ and having , over some dispute ‘ exerted their oratory on each other ’ , at last thought it prudent to leave the matter in dispute to be settled by the mayor . |
| 9 | He was a manager in Brooke Brothers , Men 's Outfitters — and being in trade was only admissible by the skin of his teeth and because , Mrs Gutermann being a widow , she could look to him to undertake certain practical tasks , to make himself useful . |
| 10 | That brand names were in trouble was no secret . |
| 11 | It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house . |
| 12 | Being on duty was generally acknowledged by the team to be stressful and disruptive of one 's home life , but the figures indicated that in relation to referral and investigative work at least , the amount of time in active work was not great . |
| 13 | Shaikh Hamad 's observation that borders within the Arab world should remain as they were at independence was , however , interpreted as an indication of Bahrain 's continued claim to the islands . |
| 14 | The normal causation rule of " but for " applies unless the sole reason the employer is in breach was the plaintiff 's omission to use the safety equipment ( Ginty v Belmont Building Supplies ( 1959 ) ) . |
| 15 | Bloody rubbish all over garden , Gilly 's over back was |
| 16 | There was a little shop in my home town that I had liked very much , selling old bits and pieces , books and engravings ; all that was for sale was in a jumble , and the windows had not been cleaned in years . |
| 17 | The outside was of course was facing bricks but er |
| 18 | sorry mastitis er and it would help if she had another baby and it was of course was actually cancer , it was a disaster . |
| 19 | Something that was of interest was him mentioning a discussion with his wife , where he said he tells her he intends to retire at 55 . |
| 20 | But then the other girl was like stick was n't she ? |
| 21 | What was under test was not my skills or abilities but my moral judgement . |
| 22 | What there was in Genesis was a clear statement concerning the Creator Spirit hovering over the waters , and this provided the model for Van Helmont 's conception of matter , with water as its primary form . |
| 23 | We had a good laugh , and the warmth that was there when I was in prison was still there — do you know what I mean ? |
| 24 | One sign that the marriage was in trouble was the time he spent giving after-dinner speeches recently . |
| 25 | Some of the oil companies operating in the UK disputed the British Gas view of the future suggesting that abundant reserves exist in the southern part of the North Sea and maintained that the reason a shortfall was in prospect was British Gas 's disinclination to pay suppliers the same price for UK produced gas as for imported gas . |
| 26 | That was before planning was controlled by law , and it had no conditions attached . |
| 27 | Elizabeth Stewart , post-graduate chemistry student , recalls that Sir Robert Robinson under whom she was to work was away working for a government department and his students rarely saw him : ‘ We never knew when he would do a lab round , and often it would be at the lunch hour , when I was out ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Because what was on board was too dangerous to be anywhere near land . |
| 29 | Perhaps there was a wish also to demonstrate that what was on offer was a genuinely single system , combining both of the old systems of examination . |
| 30 | Some would say it made no pretence of catering at all , but if you were n't fussy about what you ate , if your lunch was no more than a fuelling stop to enable you to work through the afternoon , then what was on offer was tolerable . |