Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this was but they put a D in it |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | The reason for this was that he followed the methods of the scholastics ( medieval theologians ) whom he admired very much . |
| 5 | The justification for this was that it saved the skyline of the Granite City . |
| 6 | This was before they became a popular thing you know . |
| 7 | All this was before he became a jazz legend , writing such hits as ‘ Flat Foot Floogie ’ and appearing in films like Hellzapoppin . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Possibly this was because he distrusted the enthusiasm , sometimes pushed to excessive lengths , which some agnostics felt for the church ( for example their defence of Cranmer 's Prayer Book ) , and Hardy 's enthusiasm amounted almost to love . |
| 11 | Philip Holland ( 1979 ) produced a list of 3,068 quangos but this was because he defined a quango as an official body to which ministers appoint directly members other than civil servants . |
| 12 | I think what went wrong was that they took a lot of their ideas from western countries and they sort of felt because this was in all the other countries , we should bring it to Ireland as well . |
| 13 | As already noted , the attraction of monetarism for the new Conservative leadership by 1979 was that it promised a method of controlling inflation by means , as it were , of an automatic pilot ; there would be no need for government to compromise its authority with producer groups . |
| 14 | Where Musgrove and John Hopkins , who put it all together , got lucky was that they chronicled a period of success that may never have been equalled , let alone exceeded , by any British golfer . |
| 15 | Why she always sounded hoarse was because she had a masculine voice and to cover it up she pretended to have a cold . |
| 16 | What was equally obvious was that he had no intention of compouding his error with any further mistakes . |
| 17 | What made the result so glorious was that it epitomized the essence of steeplechasing : at its most prestigious moment the sport had returned to its rural roots and shown that the humblest contestants can win the biggest prizes . |
| 18 | What made it worse was that he had a terrible cold at the time . |
| 19 | Hardly a rally was over two strokes and what was more disappointing was that it followed the brilliant final at Brighton . |
| 20 | What was more surprising was that he brought a wife with him . |
| 21 | That was before they found the patches of damp on their own kitchen and bathroom ceilings , which , when touched with a finger , smelled unmistakably of cat-piss . |
| 22 | That was before we installed the eight thousand gallon water storage tank , which Health and Safety thought could drown a child . |
| 23 | and that was before we bought the petrol this morning . |
| 24 | ‘ I know I did , but that was before I knew the labels were typed on Dick Tavett 's typewriter and that the bags matched those in the Post 's stationery stockroom . ’ |
| 25 | That was before he saw the apple . |
| 26 | That was before he became an MP . |
| 27 | I mean the foyer when you come in to the building when the place was refurbished that was that we got the consultant 's to look at the into the foyer and what you see as you come into the building is the recommendations of those consultants were talking about having a red foyer making it inviting and friendly that was their recommendation which was adopted . |
| 28 | he said in spite of the fact that I 've been in parliament for longer than he has , which surprised me cos I would n't have thought so this is the young Winston Churchill of course so the Chinese man said to him erm oh well the reason for that was that he had a famous grandfather |
| 29 | Lindsey used Bravo Golf from the time of its purchase in 1967 until 1973 as the family transport , that was until he had a visit from the Airshow Coordinator at RAF Finningley in 1973 who asked him if he would like to be shot down by a Spitfire and Hurricane at the Battle of Britain airshow that year ! |
| 30 | I thought I was a serious fan , that was until I met the fans at this game . |