Example sentences of "[det] was [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was before the days of the National Health Service . |
| 2 | This was before the days of two-channel stereo records , and the label simply meant to imply that there was spaciousness in the sound on the record . |
| 3 | This was before the days of relatively cheap air flights — in fact such things were n't even thought of by the bulk of the population . |
| 4 | As to what we were going to do in our school holidays , and if I do n't , let's see , the teacher was named , it 's be the fourth class , and er two of us decided we were going to , and this was before the days of hiking as such , we decided we were going to go hiking . |
| 5 | Towards the end of my Baghdad tour I had regular tussles with the group captain in friendly games of tennis , but I was never able to take a set off him , which never surprised me since he was more or less the permanent Inter-Services Tennis Champion in the UK , ( Oddly enough , Jackie Hunter was my station commander early in the war and saved me from the wrath of my Air Officer Commanding — " Maori " Coningham — when I brought my bombs back when everyone else had " found the target " , but this was before the days of the night camera . ) |
| 6 | This was in the interests of deniability . |
| 7 | This was in the foothills of the Mournes , whence he had been sent to take a photograph of bees and beekeeping . |
| 8 | Yeah well er you see this was in the grounds at Dartington |
| 9 | Lifers were entitled after two years to apply for furlough to maintain contact with their families , but this was in the hands of the police department , not the prison authorities , and was rarely granted — a matter of some concern to the gaol Superintendent . |
| 10 | The latter was in the hands of Motamid 's younger brother , who at once made an alliance with most of the states of Catalonia , including Barcelona , where El Cid had recently offered his services and been turned away . |
| 11 | Although the latter was in the hands of people who rarely expressed anything but praise for the Government and TANU , neither of these institutions had editorial control , and there was always the possibility of its political line changing : after all , Ulimwengu had formerly been a firm TANU supporter . |
| 12 | That was about the chances of Britain producing any sort of major champion , let alone a world champion . |
| 13 | and that was with the doors from Texas and he thought oh no you know |
| 14 | Mm , that was to the bits in the middle , do n't tell you that |
| 15 | Nothing no I 've seen the bread coming out on a Monday morning warm and landed at from the big houses and that was before the days of the cooling of the bread . |
| 16 | John Wain — another Movement novelist — is said to have voted Conservative as early as 1951 , before he ever published a book , as if silently laying down a marker for the future : but then that was in the days of Winston Churchill . |
| 17 | For my part I think it is right to accept that that was in the eyes of the appellants a formality . |