Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , as it turned out , the great majority of the 300,000 German troops reported by Schmidt-Richberg as approaching Austria on 13 May were cut off from reaching the frontier by Tito 's forces , or were already in the process of surrendering inside Yugoslavia . |
| 2 | She can still tell the police you were in that shooting and once they get you , you can forget you ever had any friends or were ever in the Army . |
| 3 | So we do n't want to be any under any illusions about that , and the same can be applied to the fact that we have made no real provision for nursery education , that we were in trouble over special needs in this county , that was a a requirement to restore services that were well below the S S A on Social Services , and we really all this er this er , new administration has done , has been brought those up , those services up to what would have been regarded as a quite an unacceptable level with most of the the the authorities in this country . |
| 4 | And that were right till the end of January . |
| 5 | Having entered the soft systems world as an untrained novice some years ago , and endeavoured to apply the theories to problem situations within my normal sphere of activity , aided only by the few textbooks that were then on the market and occasional contact with other exponents of the approach , I am keenly aware of the difficulties that some practitioners may have , not only with understanding the principles but also with putting them into practice . |
| 6 | Blind Io pushed his stack of chips across the table , glowered through such of his eyes that were currently in the room , and strode out . |
| 7 | So the very few that were still on the road I really treasured and appreciated seeing . |
| 8 | As the laws were changed to prohibit the use of certain tools , they moved into other substances that were still within the law . |
| 9 | He had arrived too late for things that were still in the air but vanished , the whole ferment and brightness and journeyings and youth of the 1960s , the blissful dawn of what he and his contemporaries saw as a pretty blank day . |
| 10 | Some may find the external colours of the dome surprising , but apparently these reds , blues and creams are faithful to the colours that were there at the end of the 17C . |
| 11 | The one American corps ( down from the two that were there before the Gulf war ) and a couple of German ones will probably remain national formations . |
| 12 | Mr Major said the community charge , as he preferred to call it , had been replaced with a new property-based system which contained improvements that were never in the old rating system . |
| 13 | Er , those members Chair , that were actually at the , at the consultation meeting with , with Industry and Commerce last week , actually heard the business representatives in Shropshire saying that the County Council does not spend enough on economic development . |
| 14 | He achieved this only by disobeying his firm 's orders that he should sell certain stocks at certain times , and by slipping in bargains here and there that were actually in the client 's interest . |
| 15 | His Mum made him sit on one of the chairs that were all round the walls and look at the magazines . |
| 16 | Perhaps , of all the models that were roughly like the real universe , only Friedmann 's would contain a big bang singularity . |
| 17 | In the afternoons there was little to see other than the skateboarders who came to clatter back and forth in the bowl-shaped space under the Festival Hall , making a sound that was somewhere between a roller derby and a kendo match ; but as evening came on , bags and boxes would start to appear in the best-lighted spots under the concrete . |
| 18 | His father had died at somewhere called Duc Co that was somewhere in the Central Highlands in Vietnam . |
| 19 | They began a three-year love affair , but were not to marry until he had enjoyed the full fruits of the fame that was just around the corner . |
| 20 | Russell 's carbine lay on the table , like he never went far without it ; another thing that was just like an Apache . |
| 21 | One thing about him that was probably on the plus side : he had the ability to drain away her tension and make her feel better . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll kill that bloody cat , ’ he muttered , and groped for the spare box that was normally on the ledge by the door . |
| 23 | Along Downing Street ( which was not railed off in those days ) and on the thresholds of other public buildings , pickets from the four main Civil Service trade unions were noisily demonstrating their disdain for the authority of a Labour government that was already on the skids . |
| 24 | As is normal in an installation for a review , I chose to accept the default ‘ complete ’ installation , that simply prompts you for your serial number ( and did n't accept the original V1.0 serial number that was already on the system ) and gets on with the job of copying everything over . |
| 25 | It was nevertheless US equipment that was most in the news , after the struggle in Congress to carry through the sale of F-15 Eagles to Saudi Arabia in the face of resolute opposition from Israel and its supporters in the American legislature . |
| 26 | David ran after the figure that was nearly at the top , almost over the lip of the cutting , the figure then looked round to face the boy and smiled , then to David 's amazement disappeared into thin air . |
| 27 | Serious collectors ( and there are only a handful in the world ) are looking for pre-sinking letters , postcards or photographs disembarked at the Titanic 's last port of call , Queenstown ; signals or accounts of the sinking ; or , best of all , something that was actually in the ill-fated vessel . |
| 28 | After all , the top of the table that was once on a line with our chin now reaches only to our thighs . |
| 29 | Pitcairn seamount lavas have O isotope ratios up to a few parts per million higher than the mantle value , which leads to the virtually inescapable conclusion that they contain a component that was once at the surface of the Earth . |
| 30 | This east wing is all that remains of a house that was once in the shape of an ‘ E ’ without the middle . |