Example sentences of "[adv] this [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps this was merely a ruse to trick them into a crossing at Forteviot . |
| 2 | Strangely enough this was also the period when the Elves came to realise they were a dying race . |
| 3 | So this was quite a mission which I believe has not been adequately covered in the history and was a forerunner of things to come and like I say we got through that mission without any damage , our gunners got to shoot at the first German fighters and we were an experienced crew with one mission under our belt . |
| 4 | Well now this was quite a while . |
| 5 | Originally this was merely a method of putting pressure upon the tenant , but the distrainer has had , since the end of the seventeenth century , a power to sell the goods and so pay himself , the surplus ( if any ) going to the owner . |
| 6 | But surely this was just an aberration ? |
| 7 | The median total immunoreactive gastrin concentration determined 20 minutes postprandially fell from 59 pmol/l ( 38–114 ) to 33 pmol/l ( 19–88 ) ( p<0.005 ) , and again this was entirely the result of a fall in G17 from 43 pmol/l ( 9–95 ) to 17 pmol/l ( <2.4–52 ) ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 8 | Yet this was also a society with its own code , its own strict tempo of liturgical observances , its own rituals of rank and solidarity , honour and shame . |
| 9 | And yet this was also the man who had recently shot a blackmailer through the head . |
| 10 | Yet this was also the period during which the United States became the main supplier of the hugely increasing need for raw cotton . |
| 11 | Significantly this was also the period of Lenin 's importation of the terminology of ‘ avant-garde ’ into politics . |
| 12 | The Committee found the picture quality generally satisfactory ; happily this was also the judgement of the broadcasters who use them in their programmes . |