Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What soon became clear was that he had also acquired a modern-day glamorous superstar . |
| 2 | What also became clear was that computers were much better used with generic programs than with specific software designed to teach , say , mathematics , history or geography . |
| 3 | Strikes are our abhorrence and the first principle laid down is that the owner 's property is the first care of the member of the society to see to' . |
| 4 | The drawbacks of this style used alone are that it can be slow and you have less control over your objective . |
| 5 | Oh yeah , we 've got the analysis we 've got the questionnaires Okay what we 're gon na look at now is we gon na look at the work of Honey and Munnford and what Honey and Munnford spent a lot of time researching was people 's learning sides and they spent a lot of research and what they found out is that there are four different learning sides and we all learn in different ways . |
| 6 | The soil classification used here is that adopted in Scotland ( Soil Survey of Scotland , 1984 ) for the 1:250 000 scale soil survey of the whole country during which the soils of the Outer Hebrides were mapped and described ( Hudson et al , 1982 ) . |
| 7 | Suppose we require to solve unc The square matrix used here is that employed for the Examples of 2.2 ; we choose diagonal pivoting without row interchange . |
| 8 | But there was nothing furtive or guilty about this customer , who radiated well being and contentment . |
| 9 | ‘ Michael , the reason we all moved here was that Howard was here already ! ’ |
| 10 | The pleasant surprise I mentioned earlier was that the tank carried a recommended price tag of only £26 — and that 's less than the price of buying the glass cut to size from the glass merchant . |
| 11 | Rationalist and orthodox alike defined a miracle as a supernatural interference with the natural order of things : what they disagreed about was whether such interferences actually happened . |
| 12 | I think one of the reason why you have n't heard it mentioned specifically is because it is integral to a lot of the bits of work that we 're doing . |
| 13 | The assumption made above was that it would be useful for subjective risk in driving to promote accurate memory and thus aid the driver in avoiding such situations in the future . |
| 14 | The last thing I remember before the green light for ‘ Go ’ came on was that I had n't brought any Kleenex with me . |
| 15 | I , I could n't be adamant about the date of those but er c the reason that motor buses came in is because it was too costly to extend trolley bus routes . |
| 16 | The complication has been that because last year 's trading profits were lower than expected we did n't have any taxable profits against which to claim back this A C T so as this would be the first year in which taxable profits would arise unless we 'd not been unless we 'd been able to find some other way of dealing with it the A C T which we pay would not have been recoverable till January ninety five . |
| 17 | The protestors turned up in force to confront the man , but he 'd already been and gone . |
| 18 | The first thing I noted favourably was that tutors were now called by their first names . |
| 19 | The first thing the lads noted when the stage lights came up was that the previewers ' obituaries for Pete Townshend are about as wide of the mark as a Birmingham City attack . |
| 20 | Well I , that 's really the only reason I came up was because I wondered if they wanted to take me off it , you know if you wanted to change it , because i it is n't working . |
| 21 | The crucial message that came back was that we needed more hands-on management . |
| 22 | Just another point of interest to you people just a little thing that dropped out was that Mr er Mr died |
| 23 | He went on a while about the various tests but where he came out was that she 'd been dead for at least five days , and seven was perfectly possible . |
| 24 | But I think this is , I think that I know it w it was the arguments that went on when we were on about going dividend stamps was very interesting , I quite enjoyed them and you can you know , definitely what came out was that erm it was a bad thing because erm people , er maybe it 's good if these stamps are going to the Co-op er going to the hospitals I 'm all for it , but I 'm afraid mine I keep them to for myself and erm er I get so few these days now my Co-op 's gone but erm you know usually I go and get a bag of er , box of teabags with mine , you know and er so I use my stamps now erm . |
| 25 | The only reason I came here was because the Madam gave me your name and said that with your underworld connections you might be able to help me find someone . " |
| 26 | Wensley ( 1981 ) says that management must decide how much effort should be exerted on CAPM compared to the strategic analysis of competitive advantage , but the position adopted here is that the two concepts are related and that effort on one ought to improve understanding of the other , even if little research on such matters has yet been performed . |
| 27 | One of the things that came across was that the average sixteen year old leaving school this year in the U K will spend a million pounds in their lifetime . |
| 28 | Leave behind the places you only visit once , wish you 'd never been and vow never to return . |
| 29 | But the thing I hated most was that there was nobody there . |
| 30 | The only other significant variation among different groups which the cross-tabulations not included in the Appendix showed up was that people without bank accounts were more likely than people with them to say that credit cards would be difficult to arrange . |