Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adj] was [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Syria feared this was the fist step in his long-awaited Greater Syria project . |
| 2 | Artemis realized this was a reference to her new stepmother , but she preferred to try and keep dropping her gathered pebbles into the centre of the splash made by the last one she had dropped . |
| 3 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |
| 4 | One of the offences to which Gavin pleaded guilty was a specimen charge of £100 , an amount he admitted taking from the account once or twice a month between March and October 1991 . |
| 5 | He came to no more meals , and Roland feared Fergus thought this was a function of his , Roland 's , resentment . |
| 6 | While underlining the right of the East Germans to opt for unity with their fellow Germans in the Federal Republic , Dr Kohl said this was a matter for their own free choice . |
| 7 | Caterina knew this was the way things were done ; she glowed at her own craftiness at bringing it about . |
| 8 | Father Devlin decided this was the time to be mute and neutral . |
| 9 | Keith Richardson says this was a game Gloucester had to win … it was a turning point and the players will now be able to relax and play the football they are capable of |
| 10 | Shamlou guessed that was the reason they had been chosen as ‘ sleepers ’ . |
| 11 | Last year , 300 practices in Britain decided that was the way forward , and another 300 have done so this year . |
| 12 | As a result , all four benefited from a Wembley Arena show that was a study in contrasts : Cash 's rockabilly bass , Nelson 's plaintive Texas whine , Jennings 's bad-boy blues and Kristofferson 's world-weary romanticism . |