Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were the direct result of campaigning by the Railway Development Society and the list is almost a tribute to it . |
| 2 | How they talked and sang and wrote and thought about it , as though union with another were the entire purpose of existence . |
| 3 | This was the classic method of waging war . |
| 4 | This was the classic method of brainwashing , after all , used by interrogators , priests , and psychoanalysts alike . |
| 5 | But this was the hanging gardens of Hampden Babylon , the land where agents rule , books do n't balance and credit cards are cut up in front of your eyes . |
| 6 | This was the best final for some years . |
| 7 | He claims this was the best time of his life . |
| 8 | He claims this was the best time of his life . |
| 9 | At the end of the story significantly called Youth , a story in which Conrad calls on his own memory of the testing of ardent feelings in critical conditions in describing the last fatal , curtailed voyage of the old Judea , Marlow as narrator , sitting in comfortable middle age among men who , like him , had served an apprenticeship at sea , challenges them to deny that this was the best time of their lives : |
| 10 | Underlying all this was the political influence of Germany . |
| 11 | This was the standard deviation of the logarithms of the daily price relatives between day t and delivery ( T ) , converted to a monthly equivalent ( ninth in the list in Section 8.1.3 ) . |
| 12 | Andrew added : ‘ This was the perfect return to domestic rugby for me and a fine display by an experimental side . ’ |
| 13 | Andrew said : ‘ This was the perfect return to domestic rugby for me and a fine display by an experimental side . |
| 14 | This was the perfect preparation for importing the influence of French garden design to England , with the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 , for both Rose and his master were ready to follow some of the examples given in the work of André Le Nôtre , particularly at Versailles . |
| 15 | But this was the perfect end to the week , ’ he said . |
| 16 | This was the major period of emplacement of granite intrusions which resulted in the growth of the Western Cordillera . |
| 17 | In particular , concern about the long-run decline in the birth-rate and the recognition that this was the major reason for the growing proportion of old people in the population ( Thane forthcoming ) coincided with a post-war labour shortage , making the elderly a focus of interest in a wider range of policy-making and otherwise influential circles . |
| 18 | The UDC is controlled by the Department of the Environment and not the local council and this was the major area of conflict . |
| 19 | Ali himself has acknowledged this : ‘ I started boxing because I thought this was the fastest way for a black person to make it in this country ’ ( quoted by Torres , 1971 , p.83 ) . |
| 20 | This was the new name of a group which had already existed informally for a few years , with a number of representatives from well-known " reforming " Edinburgh families on its committee : the McLarens , Mairs and Stevensons for instance . |
| 21 | This was the new concern of European states with other parts of the world which is usually called imperialism , a concern which had meant almost nothing to Bismarck . |
| 22 | It was Shirley , her neighbour , with more post , and her appearance brought a smile of relief to Jenna 's face because this was normal , this was the new life with no past . |
| 23 | If this was the new breed of policeman , she did n't like it . |
| 24 | This was the first fall since 1973 and was due predominantly to reductions in the numbers of remand prisoners , due to the success of the probation service 's bail information schemes , and sentenced young offenders , partly due to the stricter criteria for custodial sentences for young people required by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act , and partly to the drawing up and implementation of ‘ action plans ’ for community plans by the probation service . |
| 25 | Kenny Davern : Middlesbrough Marton Way Hotel THIS was the first date in Middlesbrough Jazz Society 's new season , a return visit by the American clarinettist Kenny Davern . |
| 26 | This was the first wave of privatization of large enterprises , which was intended to raise $1,500 million in foreign investment in 1991 and $3,000 million in 1992 . |
| 27 | The locks have been the subject of a Health and Safety Executive investigation over the last twelve months and this was the first case to be examined . |
| 28 | This was the first case of a person brought to trial under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act . |
| 29 | Emile Al-Uzaizi , deputy leader of the council 's Tory opposition group and a social services committee member , said this was the first case of its kind he had known in his eight years on the council . |
| 30 | Emile Al-Uzaizi , the deputy leader of the council 's Tory opposition group and a social services committee member , said that this was the first case of its kind he had known in his eight years on the council . |