Example sentences of "[was/were] [conj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't figure out which were and when the girl er , you know , when , when I took it to the counter she she said , ooh this is good value for four ninety nine ! |
| 2 | Ginny had no idea who it was or where the scream came from . |
| 3 | I could n't remember where my form room was or where the toilets were and what was the Headteacher 's name ? |
| 4 | It seems that there was a lukewarm response from Britain , where the feeling was that since a legitimate heir existed ( the Prince of the Asturias ) , the best solution would be to take up Napoleon III 's former proposal for a regency . |
| 5 | His Honour Judge Morrell did not rule on the bank 's main contention , which was that since a guarantee card guarantees cheques and a forged cheque is not in fact a cheque , the card is of no significance at all in a transaction if the signature on the cheque is forged , though this is obviously an alternative approach . |
| 6 | What did boost the numbers was that once the question was raised they also looked for , and found , possible sexual abuse in siblings . |
| 7 | What was remarkable , and commendable , was that once the tragedy had begun , quicker than anybody else in Germany , the Crown Prince realised where it would lead . |
| 8 | This was that although the District would be explicitly recognised as the Responsible Body for Chapter III courses throughout the rural areas scheme , if any class wished to have a Chapter III category course organised by the Cambridge Board the WEA would agree to the Board assuming providing powers for the purpose of meeting the wishes of the students in the class . |
| 9 | The explanation which Hall later gave for this was that although the War Department competition was dead , he was seeking official approval for the principle that , for all important government buildings in London , ‘ a competition , limited or otherwise , should take place , instead of the work being committed , as a matter of course to an officer of the establishment ’ . |
| 10 | What no one told the audience was that although the band 's instruments were apparently all wired up for sound , Shakatak was actually miming to a tape it had recorded in a Shepperton studio the night before . |
| 11 | Lenin wishes to explain why it was that although the ‘ peaceful mask ’ of capitalism had been torn off in all the countries of Western Europe by the end of the nineteenth century , and popular discontent was widespread , it was only in Russia that a successful revolution occurred . |
| 12 | The difference was that although the three ploughs were alleged to have been laid up , ‘ the houses are up to now standing and occupied ’ ; precisely what Greville had done is obscure , but whatever it was it had undoubtedly achieved a dramatic increase in productivity without uprooting the tenants . |
| 13 | The curious thing about Dr Dunstaple 's death was that although the harrowing circumstances which had attended it were well known throughout the camp , it was not generally considered that , by dying , the Doctor had lost his argument with McNab . |
| 14 | One factor was that although the motor car made up only one third of all motor vehicles , it was yet seen as the crux of the motor problem ( Plowden , 1971 ) . |
| 15 | Now what was required then was that although the job was in a rush , the management had to telephone down to the Admiralty in Bath to get the appropriate sanction you know , to , to accept the cylinder with the er bigger gauge bore . |
| 16 | The upshot of the matter was that although the Butcher had an account for 30 odd years they did not think him worthy of an invite . |
| 17 | Their experience , she says , was that although the themes of its material were about lesbian and gay issues , around a third of the audience was heterosexual and attracted by the quality of the work performed . |
| 18 | Everything about it exceeded expectation , though one of the things that struck him was that while the fairways are wide , the hitting area is in fact very narrow if there is to be a chance of attacking the flagsticks . |
| 19 | One of the reasons for this was that while the border districts bred massive ambition for simplistic solutions , it also bred an open cynicism about the effectiveness of all solutions . |
| 20 | The understanding of the United States in drafting the Protocol was that while the United States would ratify the Convention as well as the Protocol , ratification of the latter alone not being permitted , this would create treaty obligations binding upon the United States only with other states which had ratified the Protocol and in accordance with its terms . |
| 21 | The problem for the archbishop was that while the king could now expect the clergy to offer subsidies for the defence of the realm , a campaign in Flanders and Gascony did not seem to be defensive of the realm , nor could the French claims to homage for Gascony be immediately construed as imperilling the kingdom . |
| 22 | Tad Szulc discusses the problem of the Cuban government 's trials of Batista ’ war criminals ' by revolutionary justice : ’ … the issue — in the eyes of Fidel Castro and masses of Cubans — was that while the United States government had never protested against the killing and torture of thousands of the old regime 's opponents by the Batista police and soldiers ( and public opinion took hardly any notice ) , now that the victorious revolutionaries were punishing their opponents with executions and lengthy prison sentences Americans were indignant [ about the lack of Anglo-Saxon judicial guarantees ] ' ( 1986 , pp. 385–6 ) . |
| 23 | The second , the second point was that while the J C B was down there we er erm in consultation erm the chairman of those committees , we removed the old concrete base which crumbled whilst we were digging the erm the t the trench for the water pipeline , it was actually crumbling away . |
| 24 | What was equally obvious , however , was that unless a high resolution output device could be found to produce pages from the system the company would still be firmly locked into a typesetting bureau for output . |
| 25 | It came in a memorandum with a covering letter from McFarlane ; the premise was that unless the United States changed its policies towards Iran , America 's position in Tehran would never improve . |
| 26 | The most significant piece of information which resulted from the study was that after a world wide search no evidence emerged that a serious outbreak of fire had occurred in a high-bay warehouse over 10 metres high . |
| 27 | What was intriguing was that after the gentleman in question had filled in his first , second and third name there was room on the form , if he felt so inclined , to tell us the ‘ forename or nickname by which you are popularly known ’ . |
| 28 | Williams ' theory , in brief , was that whilst the West Indian plantation economy with its slave labour force was the prime factor in the development of mercantilist capital in Great Britain , the ascent in the early 19th century of the industrial bourgeoisie created new forces whose interests clashed with those of the more established capitalist group . |
| 29 | One consequence of all this was that when a Commons Defence Committee later met to disentangle the many grievances , John Nott — the defence secretary who ‘ misled ’ the Commons about the circumstances of the sinking of the General Belgrano — explained : ‘ In a few years ’ time , with satellites , the task of censorship will become an impossible one . ’ |
| 30 | The prediction was that when a subject 's attention had been focused on the acted-upon it would be easier ( and so take less time ) to produce a passive , whereas an active would be easier when the preamble concerned the actor . |