Example sentences of "was [conj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One view was that they form a kind of virtuous circle of equally basic expressions definable in terms of each other . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What was interesting about those MPs who were swift to defend him was that they come from the traditional working-class wing of the parliamentary party — people like Jimmy Hood , or Aberdeen North 's Bob Hughes . |
| 4 | His argument was that they expect to be certain , and therefore interpret any doubt as evidence of unbelief : |
| 5 | One idea was that they roll downslope from the submarine volcanic vent like plastic bags full of water , before piling up on top of one another ; another was that they whizzed along the sea bed , supported by a cushion of collapsing steam bubbles ; while a third suggested that ‘ pillows ’ are n't separate entities at all , but long , worm-like tubes whose thickness varies along their length . |
| 6 | This is no doubt why much the commonest comment made about credit cards in the main 1979 survey ( by nearly half those questioned ) was that they encourage you to spend too much ; it was also the commonest comment made about stores accounts . |
| 7 | You know they do But anyway the point I was making was that they call it distant intimacy . |
| 8 | Now , erm , the situation there was that my vicar came to see me and , erm , what happened was that we 've got three churches well luckily , one of them only has about twelve in it another has eighty and another sixty and he said well what did he do about Rushdie ? |
| 9 | Their basic proposition was that we tend to organise and simplify incoming information until it makes a satisfying pattern . |
| 10 | A further condition of the Grant was that we increase |
| 11 | Part of the Medau Society 's submission to the Sports Council was that we increase our membership numbers , and therefore our income — if we do not achieve this it will have repercussions on our grant . |
| 12 | An important feature of these interactions , which was to play a major part in the new interactionism , was that we use stereotypical ‘ labels ’ to make sense of other people , based on cues or knowledge that we have about them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But the logic of the report was that we provide a two tier service [ new general hospital wards , old asylum services ] . |
| 15 | The problem which was supposed to bring liberal theory crashing to the ground was that we do not wish to justify interfering with adult liberties on these grounds . |
| 16 | What the group 's paper tried to suggest was that we do n't simply endure the existence of the private sector . |
| 17 | What I was interested in at , at the briefing er , for the Committee , was that we do n't actually go out and sell this in inverted commas , to other authorities , they come to us , because they 've heard it 's good practice . |
| 18 | The response was that we do not get involved in trying i in to get foreign administrations to try to tell them what decisions they should make . |
| 19 | What I wanted to get at was that we have had such commitments before . |
| 20 | You stand a better chance if you put something with the Sunday and even then that might not be completely enough to reach down to the crevices , but I think some method , and that 's why I suggested surgeries actually , was that we have to talk regularly to people face to face and once you 're in a room with people then it goes , does n't it ? |
| 21 | Mr Clarke said : ‘ The key requirement was that we look after our people as well as we possibly could in these extreme circumstances . |
| 22 | Er , so the lesson we learned from tornado was that we want to try and cap our financial liabilities for the project for the development of it , at a much earlier stage and er drive as tough a commercial bargain as we possibly can . |
| 23 | All that was important was that she leave here immediately , as soon as Kirsty had gone to Carol 's , and start working on driving him out of her heart . |
| 24 | ‘ My advice was that she spend the duration of her pregnancy in hospital . ’ |
| 25 | Erm er I think they 're probably and and they 're putting more effort into getting the unemployed off being unemployed off being unemployed into course are n't they so probably the they may have improved things but anyway the basic erm idea of it was that you borrow money er you borrow erm money to finance a course which is going to get you a job . |
| 26 | Erm as far as mannerisms are concerned , the only one I picked up was that you say okay quite often . |
| 27 | Remember I asked you this morning to just just after lunch to jot down what it was that you need to improve on just as you 're setting the clock just say something like by the end of this talk I 'd like you to congratulate me on having moved around a bit more having not put me hands in me pockets , whatever it might be . |
| 28 | One important lesson I learned early on ( which had not been obvious to me in the past ) was that you do n't have to give everything away , do n't have to reveal yourself completely to people . |
| 29 | ‘ And the terrifying thing I realised very quickly was that you have to be yourself . |
| 30 | I remember , when I was doing my lifesaving certificates , that one of the very first things that we learnt , was that you have to , as the life sa , the life saver , you had to be in charge of the situation . |