Example sentences of "was [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since there was neither oxygen to fuel the processes of decay nor any scavenging animals to feed on the bodies and destroy them , the tiny carcasses remained complete as the settling mud particles slowly entombed them . |
| 2 | Why was each change ( growth in some areas and decline in others ) made ? |
| 3 | I am quite convinced that everyone we met there was each other 's cousin . |
| 4 | At each place were five Brierley crystal glasses each engraved with the Queen 's cipher , as was each knife , fork and spoon . |
| 5 | Franchises were re-allocated by competition in 1964 , 1967 and 1981 , and although there was each time a public invitation and a grand interview , the procedure involved a good deal of preliminary contact and discussion , not least about such important but apparently secondary factors as studio locations and offices . |
| 6 | It was each for himself in a hard , competitive world . |
| 7 | C ) r74(1–517) ( circles ) and r74(1–435) ( squares ) was each titrated against the fixed amount of r30 and resulting transcripts were quantitated by an image analyzer ( Fuji BAS2000 ) and expressed as an arbitrary unit . |
| 8 | — Was each correction necessary at that point ? |
| 9 | And each man , or perhaps been one or two men doing the one jo the one order and they was each responsible for their own and then you 'd got ta put your name down sometimes for a machine you know . |
| 10 | He applied four times for permanent posts in Cambridge , but was each time unsuccessful ; it was feared that he would alarm and discourage his pupils , particularly the weaker sort . |
| 11 | Was each of them waiting for the other to make the next move ? |
| 12 | That was each for a week was n't it ? |
| 13 | How much was each no worth ? |
| 14 | While preparing an early draft of the present chapter , the writer heard Bishop Cathal Daly of Down and Connor , a leading moderate among the bishops , respected by all except PIRA , repeat the adage that the Irish constitution was secular , implying that there really was little to be done for the moment . |
| 15 | Based on statistical data for Roman catholics educated in both Roman catholic and other schools , Greeley and Rossi noted as one of their findings that there was little difference in adult religious practice between the two groups . |
| 16 | He agreed there was little in an anthropological vein and deplored the current lack of funding available for cultural or qualitative research into the semantics of policing . |
| 17 | Jay found Lucy 's eyes on her sometimes when she looked up , but there was little enough time to meet . |
| 18 | He scanned it — it was little more than a text of the Act . |
| 19 | The LBS report was uncompromising ; it showed that even with full trains , there was little or no money at the bottom end of the market , whereas with first-class and full-dining trains , there was considerable profit potential . |
| 20 | In a sector where the income from sales of tickets represented less than a quarter of total expenditure , there was little else one could expect . |
| 21 | Apart from the 4-SUBS , traffic levels meant there was little chance for stock to fall out of the bottom of the cascade . |
| 22 | Ashton broke this all-but-written law and communicated the exotic atmosphere of the dream but there was little to express the passion of love , which he would later convey in such works as A Month in the Country . |
| 23 | In many parts of the country there was little choice for drinkers as the big brewers owned most of the pubs as a result of the takeover and closure of scores of independent brewers . |
| 24 | Although personal pension plans are now being taken up fast enough to alter the Chancellor 's tax sums , there was little evidence of their popularity in the survey . |
| 25 | While the Cold War evaporated as Mikhail Gorbachev , the Soviet leader , realised that there was little point in the USSR being a military giant if it remained an ‘ economic pygmy ’ , the world would not , Mr Roper said , necessarily become a safer place . |
| 26 | Sterling was meanwhile little changed in moderate trading , but there was little sign that confidence in the currency had been fully restored . |
| 27 | Trading , never heavy , was at least well up to the post-crash average although there was little sign of institutional support . |
| 28 | A Department of Health spokesman said , however , there was little immediate hope that the dispute , now in its third week , would be resolved . |
| 29 | Carroll House apart , there was little else to cheer the British challengers , with the failure of Luca Cumani 's Kefaah in the Prix du Rond-Point providing perhaps the biggest disappointment . |
| 30 | There was little in the report to offer investors any incentive to assess the company more favouarbly . |