Example sentences of "this was [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here I am not trying to give the impression that I am a Test Pilot as such , not in the way of Roly Beamont , or a host of other of my friends in this particular field ; this was just a question of an air test rather than a flight test . |
| 2 | Diane told herself that this was just a kind of paranoia on her part , an over-apprehension that came from reading too many doctor articles in women 's magazines , but it did n't make her any less uneasy . |
| 3 | ‘ In case you were thinking , ’ he concluded , ‘ that this was just a quarrel among blacks , a spot of faction-fighting . |
| 4 | This was just a continuation of the baseline . |
| 5 | er and I 'll be the first to recognize that and this was just a sort of the ball park stats that you were looking for . |
| 6 | Some Ministers felt that this was wholly a matter for the conscience or judgment of the individual , and that Ministers who held strong views on the moral issue should not be asked to subordinate those views to a collective decision of the Cabinet . |
| 7 | Yet this was also a society with its own code , its own strict tempo of liturgical observances , its own rituals of rank and solidarity , honour and shame . |
| 8 | Though it was little discussed , this was also a problem among girls . |
| 9 | Since this was also a period of great affluence , it can only be assumed that the wealthy customers who commissioned the Kamares cups — aristocrats and priestesses among them — could now afford cups of precious metal instead . |
| 10 | This was also a period of rapid industrialisation , and hence a period of high labour demand . |
| 11 | This was simply a reformulation of the original commitment , in the Treaty of Rome , to establish a Common Market . |
| 12 | He described this as " grossly inadequate " and said that this was effectively a symptom of the basic unreasonableness of the contract . |
| 13 | This was both a matter of pride and of business sense at a time when he was making a major export drive towards America . |
| 14 | This was probably a consequence of the Three Mile Island PWR failure which caused uncertainty , gave rise to new safety regulations and was formidable ammunition for anti-nuclear lobbies . |
| 15 | This was probably a consequence of British membership of WEU , but Britain 's recent agreement to a treaty of association with the ECSC may have led the Six again to think optimistically of a British change of heart . |
| 16 | This was mostly a matter of scale ; Pete 's feeling was that you could n't own such a place , you could only be owned by it . |
| 17 | It struck Madeleine that this was surely a waste of time . |
| 18 | This was largely a reflection of Britain 's uncompetitiveness in world trade . |
| 19 | The reduced deficit was to be achieved by ( i ) a 13.2 per cent reduction in investment spending ( although unused investment allocations for 1988 were to be carried over into 1989 ; and ( ii ) the raising of direct and indirect taxes by 29.7 per cent and 23.3 per cent respectively ( although this was largely a reflection of the fact that actual tax yields in 1988 exceeded 1988 budget projections by some 20 per cent ) . |
| 20 | This was largely a result of the widely-perceived success of the Nissan plant . |
| 21 | ( This was either a discussion between a teacher and an undergraduate , or between two members of a seminar group . ) |
| 22 | This was partly a reflection of the balance between specialist and conversion course provision on either side of the binary line . |
| 23 | This was partly a reference to how the game was played : its new emphasis on the professional foul , dossiers on opposition players , new fitness training methods and greater tactical awareness . |
| 24 | Again , this was partly a matter of generation . |
| 25 | This was clearly a response to the devastation of war but in general the public commissions that have provided work for our artist craftsmen and women since then have tended to be bland and factual . |
| 26 | This was clearly a departure from her script for the evening . |
| 27 | This was clearly a moment of major concern for the Liberals . |
| 28 | This was doubtless a windfall for shipwrights , if expensive for others . |
| 29 | Even Darwin admitted that his confidence was tested when he contemplated the vertebrate eye , although he went on to say that this was more a failure of the imagination than of the intellect . |
| 30 | Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position . |