Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun sg] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the annual meeting in 1961 there was sharp criticism of an ‘ out of date ’ programme and by 1964 there was talk of winding the whole thing up because it just could n't pay its way . |
| 2 | Perhaps , in retrospect , I was over-kind in interpreting the offensive ‘ Bengali In Platforms ’ as a belated working through of petty teenage bigotry . |
| 3 | ‘ It has been very hard work , but I have loved every moment of it , ’ was comment after winning the 1992 Award . |
| 4 | The necessary correlative , particularly amongst liberals , before and during the wars was caution about threatening the social order ; it would also mark a form of corruption in the Christian dynamic of antislavery . |
| 5 | And , in focussing upon the events of the inter-war years , precisely how important was unemployment in shaping the political changes which occurred ? |