Example sentences of "[noun] this [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the latter case this was notwithstanding a finding that the wife ‘ did sufficiently understand the general nature of the document . ’ |
| 2 | On the western side this was always an area characterised by a militancy which is presumably going out of fashion now too . |
| 3 | By some kind of irony this was exactly the reverse of the trouble with masonry cathedrals which fell down because they turned out to be in tension when the builders held that they were in compression . |
| 4 | In essence this was less a system than the resort by the Crown to whatever means came to hand for raising and controlling money . |
| 5 | Sweated trades have traditionally been seen as a residual sector , and in some traditional women 's occupations this was undoubtedly the case . |
| 6 | As she 'd returned everything he 'd given her before he 'd left for Japan this was quite a surprise . |
| 7 | On the other hand this was also the year when the British government had reluctantly bowed to American pressure and agreed to the establishment of a base in the Holy Loch in the west of Scotland for American Polaris submarines . |
| 8 | Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position . |