Example sentences of "[conj] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a request for stamps , he describes a few enjoyable , healthy hours out of doors walking with Dad from ten to three without a rest : We met a country girl , pale faced , delicate , tall , wrapped up to her neck in winter clothes & feeling cold in spite of all ; her eyes were timid & weak ; evidently she was suffering as girls do , & was going out to get the fresh air . |
| 2 | Although crew cuts had been around forever , all-over short hair of ½″ or less started in about '64 & was a conservative-suit-mod staple until '68 when it went even shorter — ¼″ and less & in '69 near-shaven styles ( baldness never caught on ) ½″ or so of hair in the 60s was not as noteworthy as a backward glance might suggest — because long hair got all the publicity , you 'd think that everyone below 25 grew their hair long . |
| 3 | It looked quite good with Crombies & trilbies & was sometimes lacquered . |
| 4 | 2 WHAT WAS THE WAGE GIVEN TO THEM & WAS THIS SUFFICIENT ? |
| 5 | The opera was called ‘ sister Chiang ’ & was about a girl who was leader in the guerrilla fighting in Szechwan just before the liberation . |
| 6 | Where , oh where was the Lily of yesterday ? |
| 7 | my stuff from last week , where did where was it ? |
| 8 | It is also possible to feel , and to be told in London , that there was more to be said about the mad love than he allowed himself , or was in a position , to come up with . |
| 9 | One must also remember that the bulk of the clergy both in Ireland and in the remainder of catholic Europe came from rural backgrounds , where the sense of God is , or was , part of the air one breathes ( Acquaviva 1979 ) . |
| 10 | Had he discovered it , or was she afraid he would ? |
| 11 | Or was there something else she had wanted , some sign of repentance maybe ? |
| 12 | Or was she confounded by two separate parts of her life coming together ? |
| 13 | This is all the more annoying when one person 's attack was n't valid anyway because it missed the scoring area , or was otherwise unacceptable . |
| 14 | Moreover , Dudek 's scholarship was of a more penetrating kind than anything under which Leonard had yet sat , or was to sit , as became that of a Doctor of Letters from Columbia University . |
| 15 | As Layton asked in his poem ‘ To The Roaring Wind ’ ( or was it to the Spirit-behind-the wind ? ) : |
| 16 | Or was he ? |
| 17 | I was so pleased , ’ she looked at me shyly or was it a little slyly , ‘ I could understand from knowing my Classics what the old peasants were saying . |
| 18 | If you 're a survivor of the Red Revolution — or was it a failed coup ? — one feature you 'll want to read is Brian Glover 's nostalgic glance back at those dreadful keg beers . |
| 19 | in tabernam , or was , to the Wiener cafe |
| 20 | ‘ But Sky is a major risk which has grown largely because of the activities of the competition , which have forced up the price of the product infinitely higher than we expected or was necessary . |
| 21 | Ramsey was asked later , were you getting unintelligible , or was it only that the bishop was a bad listener to Holy Week addresses ? |
| 22 | No Bishop of Durham could ever forget , or was ever allowed to forget , how one of his predecessors Westcott mediated in a bitter strike ; how a vast crowd stood outside Auckland Castle , seeing the owners through the windows of one room and the miners through the windows of another , waiting for five hours as they watched the bishop go to and fro between the two rooms ; until he brought the parties to a happy agreement , and when he came out among the crowd he received an ovation . |
| 23 | Or was it true that the Church was so short of people of stature ( under the age of 73 ) that only one man among them had enough stature for the see of London and for that reason his scholarship must be sacrificed on the altar of a higher good ? |
| 24 | For several hours we would be transported via the newsreel to the exotic East , where American soldiers were valiantly fighting the red , or was it yellow peril , and then to the Wild West , where Hoot Gibson or Eddy Dean would be showing cattle rustlers or unfriendly Indians ‘ what America stood for ’ . |
| 25 | Or was it part of the film ? |
| 26 | Notions of the freedom and autonomy of the self are at one and the same time inverted and used to pervert the ethical and metaphysical values which such a self is or was supposed to instantiate . |
| 27 | It follows that the key issue is the extent to which there was ( or was believed to be ) a significant Soviet threat to those supplies , especially in southern Iran . |
| 28 | I have a car badge belonging to the 159 Motor Club but do not know what the club is , or was , and have been unable to find out . |
| 29 | We toasted the couple with champagne , sampled Jean-Paul 's cake ( not bad , considering how little time he had to make it ) and were allowed to throw confetti over the happy couple in their BBC function room — or was it really Grey Gables ? |
| 30 | But was that really her fault — or was I presenting her with an impossible task ? |