Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] was [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 | ‘ Michael , the reason we all moved here was that Howard was here already ! ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The last thing I remember before the green light for ‘ Go ’ came on was that I had n't brought any Kleenex with me . |
| 8 | The first thing I noted favourably was that tutors were now called by their first names . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The crucial message that came back was that we needed more hands-on management . |
| 12 | Just another point of interest to you people just a little thing that dropped out was that Mr er Mr died |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . " |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But the thing I hated most was that there was nobody there . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | How it turned out was that we er , I was attending the , what was called the Secondary Modern School and we 'd moved premises from up to . |
| 20 | So I mean I think what we envisaged though was that the local publicity group erm would meet and see if the well first of all I suppose was there a , a necessity having seen what we 've got from national level er necessity to produce a kind of newsletter , a joint unison newsletter specific to Northumberland , that 's what the group was going to have a look at was n't it ? |
| 21 | One good thing which happened immediately was that Universities offered shortened degree courses to suitably qualified ex-service men . |
| 22 | What happened however was that Eliot caught a cold , and on the 2 November we received a telegram from him : |
| 23 | What happened instead was that after a while Filmer and Daffodil appeared in my view , making a diagonal course towards the station buildings , and pretty soon afterwards , accompanied by a lot of bell-ringing and warning hooters , a huge bright yellow diesel engine came grinding and groaning past my window followed by long corrugated silver coaches as the whole of the regular Canadian rolled up the track next to the race train and stopped precisely alongside . |
| 24 | What happened instead was that Milton got caught up in politics and when the Civil War began he devoted his energy to pamphleteering . |
| 25 | Er the impression I got when I talked to the locals who lived here was that it was n't gon na be that mixed . |
| 26 | The main criticism levelled here was that users found it difficult to come off while still living in an environment ‘ full of junkies ’ . |
| 27 | But from my point of view what mattered most was that it bordered Abyssinia , where I hoped one day to be posted . |
| 28 | But Coun David Lyonette ( Lab ) said the reason the company went elsewhere was because Government legislation meant Darlington can not compete on equal terms with other parts of Britain . |
| 29 | Erm I think the key point there that that Chris brought out was that it does allow the opportunity for further traffic restraint measures in the town centre . |
| 30 | l he general conclusion reached here was that any attempt to get behind the early church 's proclamation of Jesus to what Jesus himself had actually believed about himself could only be built on psychological conjecture and historical guesswork . |