Example sentences of "[verb] was [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand that one of the reasons why it took longer than one would have wished was that the emergency services went to the inappropriate end of the tunnel , further away from the train , and had to be redirected to the other end , which gave easier access to the two trains . |
| 2 | Whether they were missiles or bombs was not disclosed : what was disclosed was that they were hydrogen devices , each one in the monster megaton range , twelve to fifteen megatons . |
| 3 | What Baghdad now proposed was that both sides hold referendums to decide the legitimacy of their respective regimes . |
| 4 | The views of the Library Association on censorship are , on paper , sound , but what the News International ban demonstrated was that a simple reliance on policy statements and codes of professional conduct was not enough and never will be enough to confront library censorship . |
| 5 | Or the jurors could have taken the path they did in fact elect , which was to go to the very heart of the matter and conclude that these officers were only doing what they have been trained to do and that all the famous video footage demonstrated was that they had indeed gone by the book . |
| 6 | What Emerson demonstrated was that her younger children had difficulty in using the causal connective as a clue to the temporal order of the events described . |
| 7 | The only significant power of veto retained was that over bills to prolong the life of a Parliament . |
| 8 | What no one had expected was that my xenophobic father should find himself first sorry for the poor little foreigner and then gradually — but quite irreversibly — falling in love with her . |
| 9 | But the last thing she had expected was that John would take advantage of it , especially after so long an absence from her , and even more especially after the crisis they had endured and survived together these months past . |
| 10 | This was just an excuse : the real reason they wanted to come was that they very much needed food at home . |
| 11 | Dismissing the Crown 's application to strike out the summons , Mr Justice Mervyn Davies said that the question the plaintiff posed was whether the Revenue could invoke s 485 , TA 1970 in the course of the appeals . |
| 12 | What was happening was that the broomstick was swooping up into the sky , now dotted with stars , and that Carol was astride it , just like a witch in a fairy-tale . |
| 13 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 14 | Little did we know that G P T did n't actually write the software properly , and what was happening was that people writing new numbers in were knocking out the old numbers , alright ? |
| 15 | It , there , there has n't , I came here in , when I came here in February eighty nine it was meeting to , and the idea being to discuss particular things , to get particular things off the ground , but it has , I think the reason why it , it did n't continue to meet was because it was n't felt necessary basically . |
| 16 | What it did not want the public to know was that Blake had been authorised to do shady deals with Russian intelligence , including the betrayal of MI6 agents in East Germany , and the whole plan had backfired because he was a spy already . |
| 17 | All he wanted to know was if she was all right . |
| 18 | It was indeed a failure of such imagery , but it must be remembered that the very image of society , and in some cases of socialism , the council estate embodied was that imposed by academics and professionals , and never that of the residents , who have neither a place in the construction of that image , nor the means for its appropriation . |
| 19 | ‘ Not then , no , because the scheme we 'd concocted was that my ‘ husband ’ was a soldier , who 'd died abroad , and everyone would , hopefully , have continued to believe it , if Phena had n't flounced off to England to discover her roots ! |
| 20 | What she did not know was that Moran , with his good looks and military fame , had once been king of these barn dances and now that he had neither youth nor fame would not take a lesser place . |
| 21 | What she could not know was that by refusing to deal with the Protestant threat until the crown matrimonial had been obtained , she would throw away the strongest card in her anti-Protestant hand before having a chance to play it . |
| 22 | What they did not know was that their legendary luck was about to run out . |
| 23 | What she did know was that she never wanted to go away again . |
| 24 | What they did not know was that in ten years time , that beautiful picture was to be blighted by Britain 's first commercial nuclear power station . |
| 25 | What startled spectator did not know was that a chiropractor on the Olympic Staff had given him a spinal adjustment immediately after the accident . |
| 26 | What I did know was that Shadwell was involved . |
| 27 | What they did not know was that the examination of the diamonds had finished before midnight to the complete satisfaction of Zack and his accomplices . |
| 28 | What he did n't know was that the local authorities were taking a very different line . |
| 29 | What I did know was that I did n't want to grow up , and my diary records that I confessed as much — when pressed to my housemistress . |
| 30 | What she did know was that he lived with his mother and two brothers , and that after the war he would go back to work in an insurance office . |