Example sentences of "[conj] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked quite good with Crombies & trilbies & was sometimes lacquered . |
| 2 | Secondly , even if he did hate humanity — or was profoundly unimpressed by it , as I would prefer to say — was he wrong ? |
| 3 | Did you have to wallpaper the ceiling or was already |
| 4 | There are two provisos as follows : ( 1 ) execution will not issue against either property or persons without leave of the court where the proceedings have been brought against the firm by one of its members or by another firm having partners in common with the firm against which or against the partners of which execution is sought ; ( 2 ) execution will not issue against a partner if he is out of the jurisdiction at the date when the proceedings were commenced unless he has acknowledged service or was duly served within the jurisdiction as a partner or outside the jurisdiction after leave had been obtained to so serve him . |
| 5 | In the old popular court , the suitors declared the law and gave judgement , or else passed judgement over to God by making one of the parties submit to an ordeal : to being thrown into a pool , for instance , or made to grasp a red-hot iron ; if he sank , or was soon healed , he was innocent ; otherwise , he was guilty . |
| 6 | Either Mr. Woodford had a twinkle in his eye or was just a good salesman , but the upshot was that he supplied my grandmother over many years , in his turn his son carried on and continued serving my mother , right up to 1949 when the Salisbury round had only two customers left . |
| 7 | How could we decide whether it had free will or was just a robot , programmed to respond as if it were like us ? |
| 8 | Fabia 's heart was beating hastily beneath her ribs as she observed from the dog lead in one of the man 's hands that he either had just taken the animal for a walk or was just about to . |
| 9 | In the nineteen sixties an awful lot of er of stuff went , er or was just allowed to er to get into bad repair , and of course er B R were n't terribly interested so they just abandoned it . |
| 10 | In the event the party 's net loss of around 200 seats was , or was successfully presented as being , better than expected . |
| 11 | Indeed for a number of meetings there was an exchange of views about education , training and industry and increasing concern about whether partnership added anything to previous links , replaced them , or was simply another talking shop . |
| 12 | Whether it was that in that heightened state I had a premonition of what was to follow , or was simply recalling Dennis 's corpse-like stupor in the next room , I felt a perverted thrill , as though I were desecrating the most holy altar of all . |
| 13 | It remains a mystery whether this meant he retained hopes that some deal could be stitched up at the Conservative tables in the Members ' Dining Room , or was simply threatening to drown his sorrows . |
| 14 | It was as if he had mounted the wrong protest in the wrong place , or was simply the wrong person to do it . |
| 15 | This is all the more annoying when one person 's attack was n't valid anyway because it missed the scoring area , or was otherwise unacceptable . |
| 16 | He found an excessive weighting towards popularized science in the citations he studied , but it could be argued that his sample was too small , or was otherwise unrepresentative . |
| 17 | ‘ There is certainly little to suggest ’ , he adds , ‘ that personal cleanliness was thought a necessity , or was even a rare virtue . ’ |
| 18 | If , on the other hand , he was not genuine in writing the letters and had connived or conduced to the fraudulent behaviour of the son , or was even aware of it and consented to it , then he would not under any logical analysis have written the letters in these terms . |
| 19 | Once more , he was telling the same jokes before a show went on the air or was finally taped . |
| 20 | Accordingly , we should only interfere with his decision if we are satisfied that he applied an incorrect test , or was deprived of material which was necessary for the proper exercise of his discretion or was plainly wrong . |
| 21 | Moreover , the evaluation of reasonableness will normally be for the trial judge : an appellate court will rarely interfere unless satisfied that the original decision " proceeded on some erroneous principle or was plainly and obviously wrong " ( Geo Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 AC 803 , per Lord Bridge ) . |
| 22 | Accordingly , a first instance decision will only be reversed on appeal if it proceeded on some erroneous principle or was plainly and obviously wrong . |
| 23 | ‘ We also know he 's a churchgoer or was then . |
| 24 | No layman was expected to be more generous to the church , or was more intimately connected with it , than the head of this Christian society , the king . |
| 25 | or was more accurately a fire officer for a part of an office that I was n't aware of , so I mean I think . |
| 26 | Many village economies became more and more market orientated , but much of this increasingly commercialized production went untaxed , or was only lightly taxed . |
| 27 | He either did n't believe her , or was so unused to accepting answers unquestioningly that it was second nature for him to delve into the nitty-gritty . |
| 28 | But , as numerous critics have pointed out , that a sitter is , or was once , present in front of the camera , tells us little about the shooting situation , the relationship between sitter and photographer , the equipment and techniques used . |
| 29 | She hurtled over cliffs in flaming cars or was brutally murdered on her way to the dry cleaners . |
| 30 | No Bishop of Durham could ever forget , or was ever allowed to forget , how one of his predecessors Westcott mediated in a bitter strike ; how a vast crowd stood outside Auckland Castle , seeing the owners through the windows of one room and the miners through the windows of another , waiting for five hours as they watched the bishop go to and fro between the two rooms ; until he brought the parties to a happy agreement , and when he came out among the crowd he received an ovation . |