Example sentences of "was [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | CATHERINE Was that what made the difference ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The advice from her solicitor was that they undertook the adventure at their own risk and ought to abide by the consequences . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The only thing wrong with them was that they flew the Northumbrian flag , and not his . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Our advantage , however , was that we allowed the public to have their say on possible changes before proposals were published . |
| 16 | The outcome was that we won the match , reaching 159 for 9 with our unbroken last-wicket partnership of 68 being completed entirely with the assistance of runners . |
| 17 | so all I knew was that she got the divorce and |
| 18 | Her complaint was that she had the right to return to the job she had left : if this was not possible because of redundancy , she had a right under s 45(3) of the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 to be offered alternative employment if there was a suitable available vacancy . |
| 19 | Her first thought , she realised , was that she hated the idea of the police trampling all over this heaven on earth . |
| 20 | ‘ My advice was that she spend the duration of her pregnancy in hospital . ’ |
| 21 | The reason for this was that he followed the methods of the scholastics ( medieval theologians ) whom he admired very much . |
| 22 | The difference with Bill was that he had the power to be able to make his fantasy come true and that he lacked the self control , and the basic decency to say ‘ no ’ to himself and to Mandy . |
| 23 | His main claim to fame was that he made the Chiquita guitar that Billy Gibbons endorsed about ten , fifteen years ago . |
| 24 | The champion jockey had been waving the whip in his left hand and when he put it down inside the last furlong , I must say that the clear impression from behind my glasses was that he thought the race was over . |
| 25 | His evidence was that he read the report on the night that he received it and was — as others would have been — shocked to find that the parliamentary statements relating to the government 's support for the Nigerians were demonstrably false . |
| 26 | The unusual thing neighbours noticed about the quiet civil servant who occupied the attic flat was that he kept the window open in all weathers — to dissipate the smell from the corpses of three of the young men he murdered . |
| 27 | Michael 's problem was that he saw the glamour in Frank 's position : the love of liberty ; the excitement in the free pursuit of truth ; the shaking off of convention and mere conformity ; the feeling that religion was a ‘ stuffy valley ’ out of which he had grown . |
| 28 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 29 | ‘ This was exactly what Martinez had planned , and the rumour was that he worked the whole scheme out with Derek Jefferson . |
| 30 | The two went into a long drinking session , and the end of it was that he bought the man 's seventeen-year-old daughter outright , with the last of his grant . |