Example sentences of "was [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The question of whether he was or was not John became the most important thing in my constricted universe . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Bits that did n't depend on who he was or what family he belonged to . |
| 7 | 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 ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Better than nothing , ’ said Harvey , who never seemed to care where he was or what he was doing . |
| 9 | No , nothing ; or else the memory of a meeting , ‘ but I ca n't recall what the outcome was or what we were discussing . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | As the argument began to centre on what was or was not ‘ damage ’ , the Commission pinned its definition to the yellowing of conifer needles . |
| 12 | Tock was still a little stunned from the accident and would become confused as to where he was or what he was doing . |
| 13 | It is often pondered as to who was or is Henley 's ‘ best ’ golfer , assuming it is not the record holder . |
| 14 | Previously she had n't been able to work out whether he was or not . |
| 15 | Our society does seem to be far more violent that it was or , perhaps , we are more sensitive to aggression that we once were . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the event , of course , nothing was or could be done . |
| 20 | She remained conscious , but became increasingly disorientated , losing all awareness of where she was or what was happening to her . |
| 21 | Whether he was or was n't , it was great to have a shot like that at that point . |
| 22 | He thought about thallium and the Guillain-Barré syndrome and whether it was or was n't too late to have Elinor heavily insured . |
| 23 | As well as showing the average or individual costs of community care under the Home Support Project it would clearly also be useful to show whether the project was or was not cost-effective overall ; that is , whether the costs of running the service were greater or lower than the total public expenditure saved through sustaining at home people who without the project would have been in institutions . |
| 24 | The person was a friend and I knew she was a healer — although , as you will have realised , I had little idea what a healer was or did . |
| 25 | As they begin to remember their younger life and what their job was or the day they went on holiday to Margate , the more they may begin to make links with things happening today . |
| 26 | I had no idea who she was or who I was or where we were . |
| 27 | I had no idea who she was or who I was or where we were . |
| 28 | I asked , wondering if it really was or if his memory had become glamorized . |
| 29 | Since communism as well as ‘ socialism ’ has been forever assigned to history 's dustbin , there appears no pressing need for society to come to terms with just what that system was or how it continues to manifest itself . |
| 30 | Quinn had no idea where he was or where he was going . |