Example sentences of "[adj] was [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was part of the good life , and they were not to be denied it . |
| 2 | It 's one of the great unknown discoveries , that this was part of the Roman cemetery of Wotton . |
| 3 | This was part of the big garage at the top of the drive by the road . |
| 4 | This was part of the cultural revolution which has gone on ever since . |
| 5 | He said McAteer had already served a six month prison sentence for two assaults on his wife , and in his view , this was part of the same situation . |
| 6 | Like George VI and the then Queen Elizabeth eating spam from a gold plate during the Second World War , this was pageantry on the cheap rather than an unrestrained recapitulation of the glories of the first Elizabethan Age . |
| 7 | This was anathema to the predominant mentality of the time , and a stark contrast to the later argument of Job Throckmorton [ q.v. ] that Parliament had full competence in the matter . |
| 8 | Most of this was heathland until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when it was largely enclosed . |
| 9 | The second was sadness at the wasted years of cricket greatness for the likes of Mike Procter , Barry Richards , Graeme Pollock and others , although the sadness was not tinged by any regret at having jointed the campaign to exclude South African sport form international participation . |
| 10 | So effective was hegemony around the poor law that it continued throughout the preindustrial period and the period of rapid growth . |
| 11 | Obliged to resign in 1974 when his aide Günther Guillaume was revealed as an East German spy , Brandt later headed what became known as the Brandt Commission on development issues , and from 1976 until September 1992 was president of the Socialist International [ see p. 39122 ] . |
| 12 | What a growing part of agriculture all over the world had in common was subjection to the industrial world economy . |
| 13 | But Felix Road was n't in the main town , nor yet on the outskirts ; it was situated to the north of the city and gave its name to the acres of housing that was home to the poor , the destitute , and the dregs of humanity . |
| 14 | That was part of the early days . ’ |
| 15 | That , that was sort of the initial cover was it , two thousand ? |
| 16 | ‘ When you are retiring , Your Majesty , ’ he was urged by K. P. Pobedonostsev , who had been his boyhood tutor and from 1880 to 1905 was Procurator of the Holy Synod , ‘ do shut the doors behind you not only in the bedroom but in all adjoining rooms , the hall included … check every evening underneath the furniture . ’ |