Example sentences of "[adj] was [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was about the only thing that ‘ Damnation Derek ’ got right ! |
| 2 | This was about the only use for insect repellent , as the mosquitoes seemed to have become hardened to the hundreds of tourists who had trekked through before us . |
| 3 | The United goal never really looked in any great danger … this was about the only lapse … |
| 4 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 5 | It won , it won the best kit car and this was at the national show so you imagine how good this thing was . |
| 6 | Page references have been included in this file as , a/though pub have covered indexes in their information skills course , this was of the first occasions when they were asked to take much of responsibility for their own project . |
| 7 | This was of the first importance to him . |
| 8 | This was on the last day of an exhausting eleven-month shoot tracking down the healers , mystics and wise men of the islands . |
| 9 | This was before the actual move . |
| 10 | This was before the 1988 Licensing Act which brought all-day opening . |
| 11 | This was before the Batty sale … but Im not sure if it was before all the other sales this season . |
| 12 | And our Lord in the words that we 've read gives a very solemn answer to that question in the , in those words that we read a few moments ago and his immediate answer to the question you know are there few that be saved , was to say many , this was in the following verse , many shall not be able to be saved , now does that mean that only a few will be saved , that there 's only a few people who are gon na be in heaven that Jesus Christ came and died on the cross for about a handful of people , a small percentage does that what it , is that what it means , well lets look and see what the bible has to say , in Matthew chapter seven in verse thirteen and verse fourteen , this is what Jesus says enter by the narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction and many of those who enter by it , for the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life , but few of those who find it any way in the same book , in , in Matthew in , in , in chapter twenty two and in , in , in verse fourteen , listen again to what it says there Jesus is speaking he says for many a called , but few are chosen |
| 13 | This was in the 19th century and at about the same period more graves were found in Upper Halling , on the south side of Chapel Lane . |
| 14 | One night ( this was in the second week after he had arrived , and about nine or ten weeks before The Romance really began ) the man who had driven him away from the Bar had done so in a big , warm , expensive , deep-seated car . |
| 15 | The most obvious place for this was in the private sector , where these jobs , and skills , were being lost . |
| 16 | This was in the early days of the personal computer when graphics software was scarce . |
| 17 | This was in the early days of when we was in Road , we did move from there eventually . |
| 18 | So could you say this was in the modern society effect . |
| 19 | This was in the heady days of 1978 , when I first lost my leg , when very flared trousers were in . |
| 20 | This was in the last days of Mrs Thatcher 's leadership and my daughter had never known anything other than a female PM . |
| 21 | The most extreme example of this was in the surgical treatment sometimes meted out to women . |
| 22 | This was in The Little Review for May 1919 , where Williams was taking issue with praise of Eliot by one of Pound 's British friends , Edgar Jepson ; but Williams 's hostility to British culture ran deeper than that , and was to be a permanent feature of his outlook . |
| 23 | Another idea is that there should be an official — perhaps called a Director of Civil Proceedings — who would have the power to initiate court proceedings if this was in the public interest and to intervene in proceedings initiated by others to represent the public interest . |
| 24 | However , on November 2nd , 1906 , all this was in the cloudy future , for at a meeting in the Town Hall a new possibility emerged , bluntly headlined in the Standard as ‘ Proposed Municipal Golf Links ’ . |
| 25 | People moving in , this was in the medical practice , people moving in new er new er new first things you do is register with a doctor . |
| 26 | Affiliates of TNCs accounted for about one-eighth of the Third World food processing industry , and about 90 per cent of this was in the branded goods and the export sector . |
| 27 | Room 12 was on the first floor . |
| 28 | The English liberals studied their seventeenth-century predecessors with great attention — Wordsworth frequently refers with enthusiasm to Milton and Algernon Sidney — but for them the land of the free was on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 29 | Sabine was among the many girls of Irish descent who entered one of eight regional finals held in Guinness Irish pubs throughout Germany , all culminating in the national final held in the Irish Pub in Berlin 's Europa Centre . |
| 30 | A decision by the Germans to leave their interest rates unchanged put the skids under prices in London and the FT-SE 100 was on the slippery slope . |