Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [prep] [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when I was in that nearly a fortnight . |
| 2 | In other words , he endeavoured to introduce into Siberia something which was after all only a rudimentary concept at that time in metropolitan Russia , that is , the ‘ rule of law ’ . |
| 3 | Since the lift as constructed used virtually no water , there was from 1900 onwards no flow northward from Foxton . |
| 4 | Whatever the official view of police work , to those on the ground , it was above all else a job . |
| 5 | It was above all else a moral philosophy , the means by which the oppressed members of society came to understand the source of their oppression and worked towards its overthrow . |
| 6 | For Nizan , it was above all else the year of the Spanish experience . |
| 7 | In general one might say that Law has become marginally less distinct from other subjects than it was in that quite a few people are doing cross disciplinary research , e.g. in law and economics and law and society . |
| 8 | Yeah , erm , we , we thought we 'd got him calmed down at one point and he started up again and he was like that right the way up till I went to fetch Emily |