Example sentences of "was [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CATHERINE Was that what made the difference ? |
| 2 | The difference between the two information sheets was that one provided a rather sketchy outline of possible postoperative complications ( derived from a survey of what 10 house officers actually told hernia patients when they obtained consent ) , and the other contained a more comprehensive list ( boxes ) . |
| 3 | What Lord Wilberforce was saying was that one examines the content and not the form of a restraint and if there appears 'some quite independent purpose " behind the restraint , ie a purpose outside the essence of the agreement , then the doctrine applies . |
| 4 | Given the size of the motion-picture audience it was inevitable that political authorities would become involved in some regulation of the industry even if it was only to be a question of safety and fire regulations , but what made the movies even more into a public issue was that they became a mass activity precisely at the moment when political parties and social agencies were more concerned than ever before with how the masses could be accommodated within cities . |
| 5 | For the unions one of the main inducements in favour of centralised negotiations was that they offered a better prospect for promoting the labour movement 's specific policy of wage solidarity . |
| 6 | The only advantage of the proposals from the government 's point of view was that they offered the possibility of appearing to reduce central government expenditure , a cause dear to the Tory heart . |
| 7 | One view was that they form a kind of virtuous circle of equally basic expressions definable in terms of each other . |
| 8 | One reason why some of the most energetic of antislavery activists in the 1830s resorted to the mass public meeting , the public lecture , the organisation of vast petitions and the delegate convention was that they lacked the easy personal access to ministers and administrators which an earlier generation of antislavery leaders possessed . |
| 9 | We thought it would be a good idea to give them a chance straight off to have an opinion , and we set them a nice problem , which was that they put a marble into something and another marble comes out thirty seconds later . |
| 10 | I think what went wrong was that they took a lot of their ideas from western countries and they sort of felt because this was in all the other countries , we should bring it to Ireland as well . |
| 11 | Where Musgrove and John Hopkins , who put it all together , got lucky was that they chronicled a period of success that may never have been equalled , let alone exceeded , by any British golfer . |
| 12 | An added advantage that the deaf people of Glasgow had over any other deaf community in the country was that they had a regular ‘ Deaf and Dumb Notes ’ column every week in the Glasgow Evening Times , the largest selling Scottish evening paper . |
| 13 | The reason for this was that they had a different view of tradition from the locals and this caused them to turn to ‘ progressivist ’ ideas and to new ventures put forward by planners in order to effect an entry upon the local political scene . |
| 14 | All he knew about Somerset was that they had a cricket team and that the yokels drank cider and pronounced it ‘ zyder ’ . |
| 15 | The consequence of this policy ( already well established in many areas before nationalisation ) was that they had a virtual monopoly of electric cooker sales , other retailers finding the trade unattractive . |
| 16 | Our Rally was just super — more people than before — But what they did n't know was that they had a treat in store : The National Display Team came for the afternoon To show their special item — we were all over the moon ! |
| 17 | Er their mistake was that they chose a company which was down market and basically did n't go into er depth of that company . |
| 18 | Their excuse was that they feared the influence of those Catholic lords who , pretending to be the king 's loyal advisers , were in fact anxious to restore his mother to the throne . |
| 19 | This regular weekly contact , together with the organised group visits , meant that the students approached teaching practice knowing that they could organise a lesson in terms of defining in advance what it was that they wanted the children to learn how to do ; and then , by working backwards , sort out their materials , activities and procedures . |
| 20 | The advice from her solicitor was that they undertook the adventure at their own risk and ought to abide by the consequences . |
| 21 | The measure of Ireland 's forward effort was that they dominated the English pack despite a final lineout count that finished 28-16 in England 's favour . |
| 22 | The only thing wrong with them was that they flew the Northumbrian flag , and not his . |
| 23 | She and this animal treated each other with mutual contempt , like an old unhappily married couple , and I always thought that the only reason he did n't bite her or she have him put down was that they disliked the rest of the world even more than each other and would have been even more miserable and lonely than they were in their trap of hostility . |
| 24 | I mean the foyer when you come in to the building when the place was refurbished that was that we got the consultant 's to look at the into the foyer and what you see as you come into the building is the recommendations of those consultants were talking about having a red foyer making it inviting and friendly that was their recommendation which was adopted . |
| 25 | But in , in the impression was that we 'd a Land Rover then it 's funny . |
| 26 | My initial impressions , from hearing the occasional report ( as above ) was that we made a disastrous start , and went a goal behind … that took us a while to get over , in the meantime Norwich were boosted . |
| 27 | I have done mine , erm , I will send one of these round , but the majority of them I feel are so very small that I do n't feel that we need to discuss filling in the because I know the intention was that we sent the document well in advance of what 's being done otherwise we are just going to get bogged down in er , this meeting in terms of all of the decisions . |
| 28 | What this meant in practice was that we overplayed the Health Service , we underplayed almost everything else , and then got into an awful muddle over proportional representation . |
| 29 | The only reason I went this rather dicey route was that we heard a buzz that all the billets were going to be searched . |
| 30 | The suggestion there was that we derive the account of justification from that of knowledge , thus : a is justified in believing p iff in certain circumstances a would know that p . |