Example sentences of "this was [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was part of the good life , and they were not to be denied it . |
| 2 | It 's one of the great unknown discoveries , that this was part of the Roman cemetery of Wotton . |
| 3 | This was part of the big garage at the top of the drive by the road . |
| 4 | This was part of the cultural revolution which has gone on ever since . |
| 5 | He said McAteer had already served a six month prison sentence for two assaults on his wife , and in his view , this was part of the same situation . |
| 6 | Like George VI and the then Queen Elizabeth eating spam from a gold plate during the Second World War , this was pageantry on the cheap rather than an unrestrained recapitulation of the glories of the first Elizabethan Age . |
| 7 | This was anathema to the predominant mentality of the time , and a stark contrast to the later argument of Job Throckmorton [ q.v. ] that Parliament had full competence in the matter . |
| 8 | Most of this was heathland until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when it was largely enclosed . |