Example sentences of "[adj] there was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civil society on Locke 's account is established to protect the property rights of individuals but apart from this there was on Locke 's account no connection between political rule and the ownership of property . |
| 2 | During the 1970s there was to be a flood of legislation designed to limit the freedom of the president in these policy areas . |
| 3 | My uncle bought one about ten year ago and all there was about was Betamax then . |
| 4 | And that was all there was to it . ’ |
| 5 | That 's really all there was to it and Tony DeFries became his manager . |
| 6 | He had a blank sort of face , and that was about all there was to him . |
| 7 | This time the ‘ Oh ’ seemed all there was to be said . |
| 8 | But sitting up in the bedroom looking down towards the river , she was asking herself more often of late whether meat and clothing were all there was to life . |
| 9 | I just did n't fancy her and that was all there was to it . |
| 10 | He was suffering from third-degree ennui , and that was all there was to it . |
| 11 | That 's all there was to it . ’ |
| 12 | If this was all there was to Soccer Rivals it 'd just be another mediocre management game , but the board-game aspect is a lot of fun , especially with three human players . |
| 13 | If that was all there was to it , we could be pardoned some uneasiness ; we might feel that we have n't been shown much reason for supposing that there are any sentences such that all who understand them will agree on their truth-value no matter what the circumstances . |
| 14 | He would be the doctor attending me , and that was all there was to it . |
| 15 | " That was all there was to the message , but then she got chatting . |
| 16 | Not if that were all there was to it . |
| 17 | Barbara Coleman did not sell much work and that was all there was to it . |
| 18 | After twenty years in the force Hawken thought that he knew all there was to be known about the eccentricities of senior officers but he was wrong . |
| 19 | If that was all there was to it , we should simply be highly sophisticated digital computers . |
| 20 | But that 's all there was to it . |
| 21 | It was easy to move among this great , churning concourse , and hear all there was to be heard , and no great trick , for an intelligent man , to winnow the less likely rumours out of the crop , and be left with the grain . |
| 22 | My automatic response might just have had something to do with the fire that the Factory had predicted , but deep inside I knew that that was n't all there was to it , and that there was more to come . |
| 23 | That 's all there was to it . |
| 24 | That 's all there was to it . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I fell for him at once and he seemed attracted to me , but that was all there was to it for a long time . |
| 26 | You know , I was Jessie and he was Harry and that 's all there was to it ! |
| 27 | All there was on our estate was houses for families . |
| 28 | All there was as a certainty was here and now . |
| 29 | All there was around her was endless waves of ruby and ice with the fog crawling beneath her feet . |
| 30 | Her head was held high , not out of arrogance , Sandison felt , but because she was interested if not engrossed in all there was before her . |