Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What soon became clear was that he had also acquired a modern-day glamorous superstar . |
| 2 | What also became clear was that computers were much better used with generic programs than with specific software designed to teach , say , mathematics , history or geography . |
| 3 | The drawbacks of this style used alone are that it can be slow and you have less control over your objective . |
| 4 | The soil classification used here is that adopted in Scotland ( Soil Survey of Scotland , 1984 ) for the 1:250 000 scale soil survey of the whole country during which the soils of the Outer Hebrides were mapped and described ( Hudson et al , 1982 ) . |
| 5 | Suppose we require to solve unc The square matrix used here is that employed for the Examples of 2.2 ; we choose diagonal pivoting without row interchange . |
| 6 | But there was nothing furtive or guilty about this customer , who radiated well being and contentment . |
| 7 | ‘ Michael , the reason we all moved here was that Howard was here already ! ’ |
| 8 | The pleasant surprise I mentioned earlier was that the tank carried a recommended price tag of only £26 — and that 's less than the price of buying the glass cut to size from the glass merchant . |
| 9 | I think one of the reason why you have n't heard it mentioned specifically is because it is integral to a lot of the bits of work that we 're doing . |
| 10 | The assumption made above was that it would be useful for subjective risk in driving to promote accurate memory and thus aid the driver in avoiding such situations in the future . |
| 11 | The protestors turned up in force to confront the man , but he 'd already been and gone . |
| 12 | The first thing I noted favourably was that tutors were now called by their first names . |
| 13 | The only reason I came here was because the Madam gave me your name and said that with your underworld connections you might be able to help me find someone . " |
| 14 | Wensley ( 1981 ) says that management must decide how much effort should be exerted on CAPM compared to the strategic analysis of competitive advantage , but the position adopted here is that the two concepts are related and that effort on one ought to improve understanding of the other , even if little research on such matters has yet been performed . |
| 15 | One of the things that came across was that the average sixteen year old leaving school this year in the U K will spend a million pounds in their lifetime . |
| 16 | Leave behind the places you only visit once , wish you 'd never been and vow never to return . |
| 17 | But the thing I hated most was that there was nobody there . |
| 18 | So I mean I think what we envisaged though was that the local publicity group erm would meet and see if the well first of all I suppose was there a , a necessity having seen what we 've got from national level er necessity to produce a kind of newsletter , a joint unison newsletter specific to Northumberland , that 's what the group was going to have a look at was n't it ? |
| 19 | The scenario envisaged here is that a buyer of a car will have a contract not only with the supplier , but also a collateral contract with the manufacturer on the basis of the terms contained in a precise advertisement , the consideration for which being the entry into the main contract of supply ( see Shanklin Pier Ltd v Detel Products Ltd [ 1951 ] 2 KB 854 ; Andrews v Hopkinson [ 1957 ] 1 QB 229 ) . |
| 20 | One good thing which happened immediately was that Universities offered shortened degree courses to suitably qualified ex-service men . |
| 21 | What happened however was that Eliot caught a cold , and on the 2 November we received a telegram from him : |
| 22 | What happened instead was that after a while Filmer and Daffodil appeared in my view , making a diagonal course towards the station buildings , and pretty soon afterwards , accompanied by a lot of bell-ringing and warning hooters , a huge bright yellow diesel engine came grinding and groaning past my window followed by long corrugated silver coaches as the whole of the regular Canadian rolled up the track next to the race train and stopped precisely alongside . |
| 23 | What happened instead was that Milton got caught up in politics and when the Civil War began he devoted his energy to pamphleteering . |
| 24 | My choice for the new look team as I posted before is as follows |
| 25 | The argument made here is that already applied to Halgren 's ( 1974 ) results . |
| 26 | Er the impression I got when I talked to the locals who lived here was that it was n't gon na be that mixed . |
| 27 | The main criticism levelled here was that users found it difficult to come off while still living in an environment ‘ full of junkies ’ . |
| 28 | The point argued here is that characteristically German bourgeois identity was fundamentally bound up with statist ideology . |
| 29 | But from my point of view what mattered most was that it bordered Abyssinia , where I hoped one day to be posted . |
| 30 | But Coun David Lyonette ( Lab ) said the reason the company went elsewhere was because Government legislation meant Darlington can not compete on equal terms with other parts of Britain . |