Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] was [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is likely to be , even , that two mental events are not of the same type on two occasions when I give a more explicit description of my experience , perhaps that I was thinking that my daughter is a quick thinker . |
| 2 | This morning the sky was blue with powder-puff clouds and the sea sparkled so that he was dazzled when he looked at it . |
| 3 | Mhm yeah and erm that kind of thing comes into it so that I was wondering if there 's any way of er kind of y'know and what y'know where 's that something about changing changing changing changing rooms somewhere ? |
| 4 | They should have known all along that she was lying but everyone was in a hurry to get away from her embarrassing tears and her insistence on their testifying to this and that . |
| 5 | According to section 15 of the 1982 Act , if the union is sued for inducing breach of or interfering with contract , or for intimidation by threats to interfere with contract , or for conspiracy to commit these torts , then the act in question shall be taken to have been done by the union only if it was authorised or endorsed by a ‘ responsible person , ’ which means the principal executive committee , any person authorised by the rules to endorse acts of the kind in question , the president or general secretary , any other employed official , or any committee to which an employed official reports , but an act by an official or a committee to which he reports shall not be taken as authorised or endorsed if the official or committee was prevented from authorising or endorsing the act by union rules or if the act has been repudiated by the president or general secretary . |
| 6 | The request for a pelican crossing on Lanark Road between Foulis Crescent and Baberton Crescent has been turned down but it was considered that a pedestrian island could be justified . |
| 7 | He said it was the first time he 'd done so but he was damned if he was going to be wheeled into a restaurant like a blasted mental patient out with his nurse . ’ |
| 8 | Priority was to be given to walking , not only because it was felt that this would give disproportionate environmental benefits and would aid access to public transport , but it would recognise the dominance of local movement by foot transport . |
| 9 | In keeping with this principle , systems and procedures were deliberately kept old-fashioned , especially since it was found that many guests favoured this . |
| 10 | The achievements of Raymond IV St Gilles in consolidating his authority within Toulouse were threatened by his departure in 1095 , especially since it was known that he had no intention of returning home . |
| 11 | His appointment is thought to herald a tougher security policy particularly so since it was announced that the back bench |
| 12 | Here is a curious case of a foreigner already being hailed as an England batting hero long before he was qualified and thrust into the side as soon as he appeared to be . |
| 13 | Mortified , all the other political leaders voted to change the rules to exclude the far-right MEPs from their new posts , especially after it was discovered that Mr Le Pen 's man for Israel was likely to be from West Germany 's Republicans , led by an ex-SS officer , Franz Schonhuber . |
| 14 | We spent a day together when it was finished because I knew there was going to be a fuss . |
| 15 | In other words , FTC would be quite happy to share coverage of the game with the BBC and ITV , so long as there was give and take . |
| 16 | Their frequent meetings gradually heaped oblivion on Tina 's remark and if Cecilia never entirely forgot it , it surfaced only when something was said that dug into that particular muddy accumulation . |
| 17 | As Professor Elton has argued , it was not regarded as a constitutional force which deserved notice only when it was opposing or restricting the Crown . |
| 18 | The benefit conferred upon the taxpayers was one which logically followed only when it was determined that there were surplus places and the authorities of the college in their discretion agreed to admit the taxpayers ' children to these places . |
| 19 | She thought of taking off her overall — ; she was wearing one of Lily 's blouses underneath — only when it was unbuttoned and she looked in the mirror her chest poked out in a most peculiar way . |
| 20 | Only when it was discovered that some men , formerly working on the surface , were working in canteens on the lowest male rate — higher than the female rate — did the union begin to campaign for equal pay for the women . |
| 21 | Just two miles from the German forward positions , the Mort Homme seemed hardly beyond the scope of a determined thrust — especially when it was recalled that the Fifth Army had advanced three times as far during the first four days alone on the Right Bank . |
| 22 | But when the word reached him , and especially when it was seen that Lord Grey himself was with the party , thereafter I can not be sure . |
| 23 | He had a bit of a beak for a nose and in profile , especially when he was frowning and thoughtful , looked like a young , dreaming hawk . |
| 24 | She was brought in when it was discovered that the largest of the two rings , in Penzance , had contact with other rings throughout the country and many of the perpetrators had been in prison . |
| 25 | The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things . |
| 26 | A full scale mock-up of the wheelhouse was built to make sure that all equipment could be fitted in exactly where it was required and comments were invited on the precise layout of instrumentation and equipment . |
| 27 | But not that I was looking or anything like that ! |
| 28 | Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives . |
| 29 | He must have taken a short cut that she had n't noticed on her way down , as they arrived back at the house sooner than she was expecting and went straight to the veranda , where Faye still lay on the lounger , enjoying a long drink of iced water . |
| 30 | Not if we was to up and go . |