Example sentences of "this [was/were] [adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was just about the time when pale ales from Burton were starting to grow in popularity . |
| 2 | This was even more the case , since our losses were again relatively small . |
| 3 | For other members of the department , some of whom were less aware than Joanne of what they were trying to achieve via the new approach , this was even more the case . |
| 4 | But this was no longer a time for words . |
| 5 | This was no longer the case . |
| 6 | This was no longer the case . |
| 7 | The success of the party 's resistance to Home Rule had been founded on absolute faith that it was the most important issue , but by 1914 this was no longer the case . |
| 8 | This was no longer an affront to the public conscience , where the suicide resulted from mental instability . |
| 9 | This was pretty clearly an attempt to nudge the Americans towards saying yes to an aid programme for the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | This was pretty certainly an exaggeration , but it shows unmistakably that the Black Country ( though this name had yet to be invented ) was in process of creation . |
| 11 | In some cases this was rather literally the case — the syrupy domestic interiors beloved of German nineteenth-century painters began to reappear with pictures of the Fuhrer on the wall and the Volkischer Beobachter lying folded on the table . |
| 12 | This was most probably a reflection of the common grazing systems found in those areas where all farmers were accustomed to working together . |
| 13 | Birds and cats , as everyone knows , do not normally hit it off , and when Dawn met our cat , Jasper , this was most definitely the case . |
| 14 | However , for Chamberlain 's data , this was generally not the case . |
| 15 | A mile or two from the front line , troops entered the first communication trenches ; though to call them this was generally both an exaggeration and an anachronism . |
| 16 | This was largely why the terrorist organisations of the 1960s and 1970s collapsed , including the Tupamaros in Latin America and FLQ in Quebec . |
| 17 | The charters S 951 and 953 are gifts in Cornwall purportedly made by him in 1018 , although neither is of certain authenticity , and this was seemingly also the date of his lost foundation charter for Buckfast Abbey in Devon . |
| 18 | While the General Strike might be viewed as a watershed by some historians who feel that the trade union position worsened considerably after 1926 , this was clearly not the case ; trade unions were less frequently attacked by employers after 1926 than before and the pace of wage reductions slowed considerably . |
| 19 | This was clearly not the case with John Pearson , however , who did not have an incurable deformity , nor was unable to feed . |
| 20 | Although the division of the Merovingian kingdom is often held to have been been traditional , this was clearly not the case in 511 . |
| 21 | However , this was clearly not the moment in which to tell his dearest Laura that she looked magnificent when she was angry , and he hastened to set the record straight . |
| 22 | Robert was far more interested in finding out where they stood on footwear , but this was clearly not an area that interested Ali . |
| 23 | This was now only a week away . |
| 24 | This was obviously not a name that tripped off the tongue , but the lads rose to it manfully , while managing to weep , groan and , from the sound of it , pull out lumps of each other 's hair at the same time . |
| 25 | This was obviously not a state of affairs which could continue indefinitely and , although I knew as much at the time , I could n't will myself into sleep . |
| 26 | This was very much the approach of the Thatcher government 's medium-term financial strategy in the early and mid-1980s . |
| 27 | This was very much the implication which was drawn from Darwin 's work by those anthropologists who published immediately after The Origin of Species , so that they enthusiastically talked of natural selection and the survival of the fittest in their outlines of human history . |
| 28 | This was very much the kind of stuff that Quigley was used to dishing out . |
| 29 | Islander did her best , but this was definitely not a day for beating the daily run record . |
| 30 | This was definitely not the case in 1988 . |