Example sentences of "[det] was [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was about the only thing that ‘ Damnation Derek ’ got right ! |
| 2 | This was about the only use for insect repellent , as the mosquitoes seemed to have become hardened to the hundreds of tourists who had trekked through before us . |
| 3 | The United goal never really looked in any great danger … this was about the only lapse … |
| 4 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 5 | This was as an International Securities Self-Regulating Organisation ( ISSRO ) , and took the AIBD outside both the RIE and FSA-authorisation requirements . |
| 6 | It won , it won the best kit car and this was at the national show so you imagine how good this thing was . |
| 7 | This was over a 5,500 mile course . |
| 8 | This was despite a strong sense that the man was unduly anxious about the outcome of his overture : anxiety is a great destroyer of response , and Frederica had no taste for being closed in a sleeping compartment with a worried man . |
| 9 | This was despite a brave effort from all the Derry stalwarts like Liam O'Donnell , Peter Smyth , Barry Goodman , Aidan Tighe , Paddy Duffy , Philip Coll and Robert Cooper . |
| 10 | This was for a short time only ; I had suffered a significant loss , but not a life-threatening or total one . |
| 11 | This was of a different order from my imaginings about the Chinese communists , arch villains whose evil doings were retailed to us in the classroom with the same ferocious didacticism that accompanies the telling of a lurid fairy tale and enhances its horrifying fascination . |
| 12 | Page references have been included in this file as , a/though pub have covered indexes in their information skills course , this was of the first occasions when they were asked to take much of responsibility for their own project . |
| 13 | This was of the first importance to him . |
| 14 | Snappy , short news sequences certainly helped promote some of the big names but this was on a small scale in comparison with the United States where a few outstanding sportsmen became Hollywood stars . |
| 15 | This was on the last day of an exhausting eleven-month shoot tracking down the healers , mystics and wise men of the islands . |
| 16 | Naturally this was like a red rag to a bull and I refused to even consider such a course of action . |
| 17 | This was like a bad dream coming true . |
| 18 | This was before the actual move . |
| 19 | This was before the 1988 Licensing Act which brought all-day opening . |
| 20 | This was before the Batty sale … but Im not sure if it was before all the other sales this season . |
| 21 | Screws just at the front underneath here This was in a bad state cos er this was this was up like er like that . |
| 22 | This was in no small measure due to his industry , both in correspondence overseas and practical work in the Chelsea Garden . |
| 23 | This was in no small part a remnant of ILP influence from the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 24 | And our Lord in the words that we 've read gives a very solemn answer to that question in the , in those words that we read a few moments ago and his immediate answer to the question you know are there few that be saved , was to say many , this was in the following verse , many shall not be able to be saved , now does that mean that only a few will be saved , that there 's only a few people who are gon na be in heaven that Jesus Christ came and died on the cross for about a handful of people , a small percentage does that what it , is that what it means , well lets look and see what the bible has to say , in Matthew chapter seven in verse thirteen and verse fourteen , this is what Jesus says enter by the narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction and many of those who enter by it , for the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life , but few of those who find it any way in the same book , in , in Matthew in , in , in chapter twenty two and in , in , in verse fourteen , listen again to what it says there Jesus is speaking he says for many a called , but few are chosen |
| 25 | This was in the 19th century and at about the same period more graves were found in Upper Halling , on the south side of Chapel Lane . |
| 26 | One night ( this was in the second week after he had arrived , and about nine or ten weeks before The Romance really began ) the man who had driven him away from the Bar had done so in a big , warm , expensive , deep-seated car . |
| 27 | The most obvious place for this was in the private sector , where these jobs , and skills , were being lost . |
| 28 | This was in the early days of the personal computer when graphics software was scarce . |
| 29 | This was in the early days of when we was in Road , we did move from there eventually . |
| 30 | So could you say this was in the modern society effect . |