Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 2 | These classes were , by and large , closed ; access to the nobility or the peasantry was determined by birth , though occasionally peasants could escape from feudal bondage to the towns , and rich merchants were sometimes able to purchase titles and estates . |
| 3 | He quite liked the feeling it gave him , but he did n't know if it was it or the drink was making him feel rather dizzy . |
| 4 | ‘ The first I learned of either the debt or the judgement was when I got a letter about it this week . |
| 5 | These cases are ones involving insolvency , that is total net indebtedness ; in them we have seen that either the trust was invalid because the testator 's estate was insolvent , or the trust was valid in spite of the fact that the trustee was insolvent . |
| 6 | A commuter on the M8 would encounter a series of messages on the speed of traffic just a few miles ahead and , if that slowed , or the road were blocked , information on the most suitable diversion could be given in plenty of time to allow a driver to leave the motorway and avoid the hold up . |
| 7 | But no daytime cry could be left to die out — it must be investigated immediately or the rage was tremendous . |
| 8 | Highbrow papers like the Guardian or the Telegraph were able to influence their readers at least as much as the tabloids on issues ( like unilateralism or the economy ) but not on voting choice . |
| 9 | And the assiduity with which Carolingian taxes like the fodrum or the pedagium were revived compensated in some measure . |
| 10 | by no means all of the large reptiles that are found in the Mesozoic rocks are dinosaurs — the reptile groups that took up life in the sea or the air were only distantly related . |
| 11 | • A free-running rhythm with a period greater than 24 hours ( because the time-cues were too weak or the subject was unable to receive or respond to them adequately ) ; |
| 12 | Stimuli A and B were a tone and a light ; X was the verbal response of saying ‘ now ’ when one or the other was turned on , and Y that of saying nothing . |
| 13 | Either one or the other was a place where he went and looked and he , he was going back in October . |
| 14 | The race , between Speke and New Brighton and back , means hundreds of people being out on the river but neither the Lifeboat service or the Coastguard were officially notified of the arrangements . |
| 15 | and also the Home Guard or the army were in the house at the far side of the airport which was called Aldridge Lodge they were very much in there the erm |
| 16 | It is difficult to decide whether the audience or the speaker was more degraded by participation in these ‘ homage-giving ’ events . |
| 17 | Plans to change the definition of homelessness to rooflessness were reported to be under consideration , but when the review body reported in November 1989 no changes in either the definition or the law were recommended . |
| 18 | Such people , in Clarke 's view , exhibit either a failure of nerve or of imagination , History is littered with examples of eminences who said such items as the aeroplane or the telephone were impossible , Yet Clarke himself demonstrates , unwittingly perhaps another well-known human maxim : if something can go wrong , it probably will , Thus in his 1962 edition , he predicts that nuclear rockets , translating machines and efficient energy storage devices would be around by 1970 . |
| 19 | If , however , it were marketed as a child 's toy or the blade were such that when used to peel potatoes it disintegrated into splinters , then it would not be as safe as people generally were entitled to expect . |
| 20 | The race or the idea was born in the local pub 14 years ago … and the challenge is still running … |
| 21 | A question , it was , whether he was propping up the door , or the door was propping him ! |
| 22 | A purchaser is only likely to avoid liability for dismissals before completion if either the dismissal was for a reason unconnected with the sale ( eg gross misconduct ) or the dismissal was sufficiently far in advance of completion that it was not connected with the sale . |
| 23 | Margaret had to cope with Tom in the mornings , and Gina sat in the long silent room and watched the visitors who came round , talking in hushed voices as if the pictures would be offended , or the artist was hiding somewhere . |
| 24 | Although denying the allegations that either the government or the SADF were involved in the instigation or promotion of township violence , he conceded the possibility that individuals in the security forces might have acted unlawfully . |
| 25 | They represent a time when either their objects were not the same as those of the official organization , or the CCO was not enterprising enough to suit them . |
| 26 | He owes his staff , fellow trustees , and the public an unambiguous answer as to whether he or the government was responsible for that disastrously mistaken museological policy . |
| 27 | In the remainder of the cases in the first two teams , either no service was offered , service was declined by the client , or the assessment was preempted in some way ( for example , by the client entering hospital ) . |
| 28 | The surface would have suffered saturation bombardment during the final stages of formation but either the surface was too soft to preserve these craters , as indicated by the degradation of the oldest craters , or the surface was somehow ‘ decratered ’ . |
| 29 | Neither Mr Treweek or the pilot was injured . |
| 30 | He had hit it , or the pilot was jumpy , for the Albatros banked steeply to the left , flattened out , looked at Church , and dived for home . |