Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [det] [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time it was a kind of derelict brick structure , part of which er over there , the bit that 's at right angles to where we are now , was in a was a plumber 's showroom or had been and this part was actually derelict and had a demolition order on it . |
| 2 | Mr Lambert said : ‘ It may be that this man was hitch-hiking or waiting for a lift . ’ |
| 3 | It may well be that this building was the Quartermasters Stores originally . |
| 4 | It might be that this girl was a con woman and he and Camb the first victims of a colossal deception . |
| 5 | It may be that this goddess was worshipped at the peak sanctuaries , where it is known that pyres were lit ; the later Artemis cult also involved mountain-top bonfires . |
| 6 | 4 Entry The right for the Tenant and all persons expressly or by implication authorised by the Tenant to enter upon other parts of the Centre and ( if any ) the Adjoining Property to carry out works to the Premises where such works would otherwise not be possible , or may be possible but rendered more expensive than they would otherwise be if this right was available The problem of access over a neighbour 's land has been greatly alleviated by the passage of the Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992 which sets out a procedure whereby a person may obtain a court order permitting access to a neighbour 's property in order to carry out works to protect , repair or maintain their property in circumstances where the neighbour refuses consent to such access . |
| 7 | This may be because more land was brought into agricultural use as a result of remembrement ( see p. 46 ) and re-use of the communal high pastures — the estives — in the mountain areas . |
| 8 | Similarly , in Engineers ' and Managers ' Association v. ACAS ( 1980 ) the House of Lords by a majority held that ACAS had not acted unreasonably in postponing its statutory enquiries for the time being because another union was also seeking recognition and the plaintiff Association was also suing the Trades Union Congress . |
| 9 | But the only thing I know is that that ship was sunk by the Germans in Cardigan Bay . |
| 10 | When it is said that the continuation of the sterling area was an ‘ implicit ’ decision ( in sharp contrast to the debates on overseas expenditure ) the point being made is that this continuation was not the result , it would seem , of any debate within the Attlee government . |
| 11 | ‘ The difficulty is that this poison was added in crystal form ; to dissolve it you need hot water or alcohol . |
| 12 | The second is that this form was not served on him , although it was undoubtedly served on the governor of the prison where he was detained on 3 July and should have been given to Mr. Butler . |
| 13 | But the irony is that this perception was not clearly shared by the Conservative high command , at least until quite late in the campaign . |
| 14 | Thirdly , the copy-writer tells us that the flats overlook the open ground where the Scots army mustered in the English wars , whereas the fact is that any mustering was at , or over , the distant sky line at Bruntsfield or Morningside . |
| 15 | That 's cos this horse was lovely ! |
| 16 | What is not clear , even now , is whether another fort was established in the vicinity before the construction of nearby Stanwix on Hadrian 's Wall or whether the Carlisle position was left unguarded for a time . |
| 17 | In the ancient world , the belief was that each person was represented by a star . |
| 18 | All the information they got should be pooled , the only condition was that each paper was sent to every other paper , and that all could pick up anything they wanted . |
| 19 | The thing that worried many people about task allocation was that each client was descended upon for a succession of tasks by a succession of nurses . |
| 20 | The only constraint on writer input was that some care was taken over legibility . |
| 21 | The other thing that I remember was that this session was very quick . |
| 22 | Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him . |
| 23 | The problem for capitalism was that this rule was always problematic because of the pressure from the working class and non-monopoly capital for policies which would question the interests of monopoly capital . |
| 24 | On the Sunday the anticipation was that this train was to be a double-headed and that a six-coach rake would be provided . |
| 25 | Erlich 's first impression was that this place was closed to outsiders . |
| 26 | The great difference between the events of the 1540s and earlier periods of hostility between England and Scotland was that this episode was far more than a particularly dramatic example of the eternal political and military triangle of England , Scotland and France , or even just the revival by Henry VIII and Somerset of that old English dream , the unification of England and Scotland . |
| 27 | The chief argument for putting the Callovian in the Upper Jurassic was that this stage was markedly transgressive Over a large part of the Soviet Union and that , therefore , this was a natural break such as one might expect at a major stratigraphical boundary . |
| 28 | And just as it was that the woman was instrumental in the fall of the human race , so it was that another woman was instrumental in its restoration . |
| 29 | It was because this undertaking was the equivalent of a court order and was fully enforceable by the court that he was convicted of the offence . |
| 30 | One question that arose in the Court of Appeal was whether this decision was subject to judicial review . |