Example sentences of "was [art] [noun] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or was the metal never applied in the first place ? |
| 2 | Though the six counties initially refused an offer of separation from the rest of Ireland , that was the compromise eventually agreed on , although it led to civil war in the new Irish Free State , and remains the root cause of later violence . |
| 3 | At the head of the administration of each royal forest , or group of forests , was the officer usually styled ‘ Warden ’ , or , less frequently , ‘ Steward ’ or ‘ Bailiff of his bailiwick . |
| 4 | Bank Assistants can feel aggrieved and betrayed that the Bank declared in the Labour Court that their claim was debarred by the National Pay Agreement , the P.E.S.P. At no time during the previous two years was the P.E.S.P. ever mentioned by the Bank . |
| 5 | He believed that the only explanation for these results was the chimpanzees suddenly saw new relationships that were never learned in the past . |
| 6 | So — was the novel then written ? |
| 7 | In neither case , it was submitted , was the society contractually bound to provide a report prepared with due skill and care . |
| 8 | The crucial question under s3(2) ( b ) is what was the performance reasonably expected of the proferens ? |
| 9 | ( March 10 was the date already set for the dissolution of Parliament in advance of the general election . ) |
| 10 | His boat never returned from its trip , nor was the Hooper ever seen again . |
| 11 | That 'll do , that 'll do and , and , and , and , and who was the bloke well dressed ? |
| 12 | Was the mo was the motion formally seconded before it was withdrawn ? |
| 13 | This was the theme ingeniously exploited by Poe in his tale , The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar , in which a semblance of life was related as having been preserved in a man mesmerised when at the point of death . |
| 14 | She said , er er no , I think it was the doctor actually mentioned hospital . |
| 15 | ( Shipton was the leader eventually replaced by Colonel John Hunt ) . |
| 16 | In Australia , Canada , and the Americas , killing native peoples was the method usually favoured by settlers . |
| 17 | Lesson content : was the lesson well prepared ? |
| 18 | Was the lesson well prepared ? |
| 19 | With public order close to disintegrating , the DP had emphasized during its campaign that it was the party best placed to secure further foreign food aid and investment . |
| 20 | The new , uniform business rate generated similar outrage : nowhere was the anger better illustrated than in Bath , a city epitomising Thatcherite entrepreneurial success , where there was a shopkeepers ' strike in protest at the damage it was wreaking on their livelihoods . |
| 21 | Nor was the Charolais greatly influenced by the British breeds . |
| 22 | He was to have many fine one-day knocks over the years and now he hit 88 ; only when he was ninth out was the match definitely lost , West Indies eventually winning by 36 runs . |
| 23 | Two years was the period finally agreed upon . |
| 24 | This was the line already adopted by Binchy ( 1984 ) who interpreted world-wide statistics in this direction . |
| 25 | ‘ Why was the house only emptied then ? ’ |
| 26 | Was the Empire rudely torn by the war from its ‘ natural ’ evolution towards a capitalist and constitutional order comparable to that of the West ? |
| 27 | The sums granted for this last purpose in 1993–94 will not be as closely earmarked as was the £15m specifically designated for books in 1991–92 and 1992–93 . |
| 28 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 29 | ‘ Was the meeting well chaired ? ’ |
| 30 | This was the explanation later given by the monks of Canterbury . |