Example sentences of "was [conj] [pron] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One view was that they form a kind of virtuous circle of equally basic expressions definable in terms of each other . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All he knew about Somerset was that they had a cricket team and that the yokels drank cider and pronounced it ‘ zyder ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But in , in the impression was that we 'd a Land Rover then it 's funny . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The only reason I went this rather dicey route was that we heard a buzz that all the billets were going to be searched . |
| 17 | But the logic of the report was that we provide a two tier service [ new general hospital wards , old asylum services ] . |
| 18 | So far , all that she knew of Josie was that she owned a big handbag . |
| 19 | Her gimmick was that she wore a different pair of glasses every day and somehow they all seemed to suit her . |
| 20 | The point about her was that she had a trick which worked and , unlike many politicians , She Was Not Found Out . |
| 21 | What had startled him was that she had a sister , Sandra Riverton , who had worked for INCUBUS in Suffolk . |
| 22 | The only certainty was that she had a few seconds to act . |
| 23 | I did n't expect her to do so , but what I did n't know then was that she had a holiday cottage in Muker , which is not far over the hills in Swaledale , and one day she turned up with some friends of hers . |
| 24 | And one thing he did know about the real Sandra was that she had a very low tolerance for boredom , and that she got bored very easily . |
| 25 | The upshot was that she had a rocky route through the rest of childhood and adolescence while I slipstreamed smoothly behind . |
| 26 | One of the lawyers ' wives wanted to know the secret of Ellen 's coffee , and Ellen modestly said she just followed the percolator instructions , while the truth was that she put a cupful of cheap instant coffee powder into every percolated pot . |
| 27 | What she did n't want to admit was that she needed a man in it . |
| 28 | She later achieved her Financial Planning Certificate — the incentive for this was that she needed a new tumble drier , so the bonus for completing the qualification was perfectly timed ! |
| 29 | What was more surprising was that he brought a wife with him . |
| 30 | However , although it was not unusual for preachers to criticize social abuses and injustice , this was not necessarily given a revolutionary tone ( 230 , pp.291 , 296 ) , and the significant point about Ball was that he adapted a traditional idea to revolutionary ends . |