Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] was [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most moving of all though was the shot of the Suttee ( tomb ) Stones at Rajasthan . |
| 2 | For many there was a conviction that the post-war world must be made a better place , a view that recurred regularly over the next twenty years . |
| 3 | The Labour government 's priority from 1964 onwards was the servicing of the economy in response to demands made on them by capital ; in so far as working-class girls could have contributed to this , it would have been only in those unskilled jobs for which greater or better education was not required . |
| 4 | Incidence was also examined in 1969–73 ( data not shown ) , but as in 1974–8 there was no excess in the rural high oil group . |
| 5 | BERLIN in 1928 really was no place for a puritan like Elias Canetti . |
| 6 | During 1984–90 there was an excess of total cancer among those aged 0–24 years . |
| 7 | All around was the streaming darkness of the night , out beyond sight was the Waste , barren and abominable , beyond that again was the forest . |
| 8 | When I went to what was in effect not merely the memorial of the fifty aft after fifty two years of the people , but of course really the funeral service of the pit and when I went to that here was the chance to dedicate that also , we did it actually at the Memorial Garden where all the pit people are buried and that is right you see , picking up out of the past not sticking in the past , and arranging it as you might say as in that banner to move on into the future . |