Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adj] [was/were] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The events of February 1934 were simply the final jolt which forced the labour movement into a recognition of the need to abandon the sterility of sectarian politics and enter the phase of popular front cooperation . |
2 | Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position . |
3 | For Jay that was only a start . |
4 | This being so , the famous final and belated discussion of the problem at Rockingham in February 1095 was largely a display of shadow-boxing . |
5 | After Joseph 's death that year : ‘ … the journey of the Holy Crown from Vienna to Buda in February 1790 was almost a triumphal procession . |
6 | The ‘ lights out ’ issue in December 1984 was just the tip of the iceberg . |
7 | The British were dismayed but a further memorandum from the Americans in January 1943 was virtually a declaration of dissociation . |
8 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |
9 | With a new rabbit and a short-haired piebald guinea pig in a box , Victoria arrived at a once-grand Queen Anne house in Wiltshire that was now a school devoted to raising the daughters of the gentry . |
10 | But his appointment as steward of the royal household in November 1318 was both a snub to Lancaster , who claimed the right of appointment , and a mark of his growing association with Hugh le Despenser the younger [ q.v. ] , the chamberlain of the household and the rising star at court . |
11 | De Gaulle 's assumption in June 1940 was precisely the opposite : that Britain would survive and that sooner or later Germany would be defeated . |
12 | As she 'd returned everything he 'd given her before he 'd left for Japan this was quite a surprise . |
13 | Anyway , thanks to Peter I was now a little more secure . |
14 | Only with respect to SSAP 16 was there a specific mention , at paragraph 51 , of an exemption from compliance . |
15 | In Colorado the season that ended on April 14th was probably the second-best ever : it attracted nearly 10m skiers . |