Example sentences of "was [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gentleman bocht the donkey fae MacGreigor — it was afore my day though — an it wes two or three days in the field at the front door . |
| 2 | A notable feature of the resultant controversy was that the British Medical Association , the virulent opponent of Aneurin Bevan in 1946 , was now most forceful in defending the health service , in denouncing the government for threatening its existence and failing to fund it as was properly required . |
| 3 | A supposedly famous photographer in the sixties , he was now most famous for the farce and frequency of his suicide attempts . |
| 4 | The setting sun — it was now mid-August , so the sun just dipped below the horizon — would round the headland of Flakstad village and dance over some tiny skerries off the shore . |
| 5 | It was now November , and coming home in the blackout caused me a little nervous anxiety at first . |
| 6 | It was now December and the weather would not co-operate ; day after day the fog came down . |
| 7 | It was now September . |
| 8 | When I had last been conscious it was June 28 — it was now July . |
| 9 | We evaluated the effect of the 1976 legislation on the issue of the anonymity of the rape survivor ; on the basis of press reporting in 1978 , we found that she was now most unlikely to be named , but identifying detail was still published . |
| 10 | Arnie did n't think that big was beautiful he believed small was secure-and Crocus had to be secure ; the blowback potential was massive . |
| 11 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 12 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 13 | The question of whether he was or was not John became the most important thing in my constricted universe . |
| 14 | When ‘ man ’ , ‘ stone ’ , or ‘ living creature ’ is said to be ‘ universal ’ , we are not to understand that ‘ man , stone ’ , etc. ever was or can be universal , but only that these words , ‘ living creature ’ , ‘ stone ’ , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things . |
| 15 | Bits that did n't depend on who he was or what family he belonged to . |
| 16 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Better than nothing , ’ said Harvey , who never seemed to care where he was or what he was doing . |
| 18 | No , nothing ; or else the memory of a meeting , ‘ but I ca n't recall what the outcome was or what we were discussing . ’ |
| 19 | Even Poole , the District 's own Organising Secretary in Norfolk and Norwich , had been asked by a Cambridge Board officer not to go ‘ … into towns or villages where there was or had been Extension work ’ . |
| 20 | As the argument began to centre on what was or was not ‘ damage ’ , the Commission pinned its definition to the yellowing of conifer needles . |
| 21 | Tock was still a little stunned from the accident and would become confused as to where he was or what he was doing . |
| 22 | It is often pondered as to who was or is Henley 's ‘ best ’ golfer , assuming it is not the record holder . |
| 23 | Previously she had n't been able to work out whether he was or not . |
| 24 | Our society does seem to be far more violent that it was or , perhaps , we are more sensitive to aggression that we once were . |
| 25 | But he desired the little glass key , because he was a craftsman , and could see that it had taken masterly skill to blow all these delicate wards and barrel , and because he did not have any idea about what it was or might do , and curiosity is a great power in men 's lives . |
| 26 | And whatever else the decor was or the show was that night , whatever city we were all supposed to be in , one thing that was always the same and that Madame never got rid of was the ceiling . |
| 27 | He turned to his sons demanding to know whether there was or was not to be a baptism party that night , and whether or not I would be the only white present . |
| 28 | In the event , of course , nothing was or could be done . |
| 29 | She remained conscious , but became increasingly disorientated , losing all awareness of where she was or what was happening to her . |
| 30 | Whether he was or was n't , it was great to have a shot like that at that point . |