Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this was but they put a D in it |
| 2 | He did explain what this was but I did n't catch all he said and I wonder if you could give me a little more detail ? |
| 3 | And this was after they tried to victimize you ? |
| 4 | Anyway , a few of us had a drink in the hotel that night , and apparently there was a fight ; this was after I got drunk and got put to bed . |
| 5 | This was after you became pregnant you mean ? |
| 6 | One slight advantage of all this was that nobody had time to consider the fate of L Detachment . |
| 7 | The reason for this was that they had a different view of tradition from the locals and this caused them to turn to ‘ progressivist ’ ideas and to new ventures put forward by planners in order to effect an entry upon the local political scene . |
| 8 | We now know that the reason for this was that they did not dwell or traffic within the walls ; that Lundenwic like Hamwih lay outside , along the Strand or foreshore of the Thames . |
| 9 | Erm asking for permission to put their names forward and from the , the few letters we had the , this was that we thought was the whitest knights in terms of Geography in terms of sex in terms of I would n't say intelligence , perhaps I should try to impress them ! |
| 10 | The reason she gave for this was that she felt that experiencing repeated failure was bad for pupils . |
| 11 | The reason for this was that she did n't like Mr. Gordon . |
| 12 | Of course , the effect of all this was that she did n't like my children very much , and she had some justification for this . |
| 13 | She later achieved her Financial Planning Certificate — the incentive for this was that she needed a new tumble drier , so the bonus for completing the qualification was perfectly timed ! |
| 14 | Berkeley 's reason for thinking this was that he believed mental contents to be mental images , and there can not be a general image . |
| 15 | This was that he cared . |
| 16 | The reason for this was that he followed the methods of the scholastics ( medieval theologians ) whom he admired very much . |
| 17 | The result of all this was that I returned to Europe and settled in Paris with her . |
| 18 | Her interpretation of this was that I did n't like him because I was jealous of their relationship . |
| 19 | The danger with this was that it caused believers to look to their own faith rather than to Christ alone for the assurance of their salvation . |
| 20 | The justification for this was that it saved the skyline of the Granite City . |
| 21 | This was before they became a popular thing you know . |
| 22 | Before I left the Lock and I was on nights the sirens went one night and this was before they stopped going down the shelter we went down the air raid shelter that is , now , is the cellar to the club at Bloxwich Lock 's club ! |
| 23 | All this was before he became a jazz legend , writing such hits as ‘ Flat Foot Floogie ’ and appearing in films like Hellzapoppin . |
| 24 | This was before I did my Leaving . |
| 25 | What I 'd like to say is I think erm certainly in Scotland and in Strathclyde area that four years ago , erm the first women in transport survey was actually carried out , erm and it was carried out elsewhere in Britain and er this was as I say the first study that had been done and the results were very surprising . |
| 26 | But this was when you moved to was n't it ? |
| 27 | And additional cross-tabulations not included in Appendix I showed that two per cent of those buying for cash said that this was because they thought they probably would n't be able to get credit . |
| 28 | They had faith in him , and I believe that this was because they knew he had faith in them . |
| 29 | This was because they purchased in bulk , often for delivery to a central depot and placed large orders well in advance of the delivery date , thus enabling the manufacturer to organise production more efficiently . |
| 30 | In both cases this was because they exceeded the 5 per cent minimum threshold in terms of votes won in what was formerly East Germany , albeit not in Germany as a whole . |