Example sentences of "was [adv] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 2 | The opposition leaders he met agreed that the question of reunification of Germany was not one for the German people alone , but was the rightful concern of their European neighbours . |
| 3 | He gained a reputation as the Buster Keaton of the cricket world , a man who rarely seemed to have any expression on his face and who was not one for the excited cavortings that greet the fall of a wicket ; yet behind the mask a good deal of thought was given to his bowling , and he was liked and respected by his fellow players . |
| 4 | He was not one for the romantic niceties , was Reg . |
| 5 | There was always someone in the next field to say ‘ Hello ’ to , and the school , which had two teachers , usually had more than thirty children in attendance . |
| 6 | There was practically none of the systematic planning and oversight which so characterised Bath and many other spas : that could only come from the implementation of a single plan by a great landowner and architect , and Brighton had a few of these . |
| 7 | Now she knew that there was probably nothing on the other side . |
| 8 | I du n no it was about to shut was n't it at the same time and it it was like well it 's worth gon na get them . |
| 9 | But was n't it for the best that his son be separated from Jennifer ? |
| 10 | Was n't it in the first cousin of just this sort of place that two centuries earlier another wandering fiddler , the blind poet Raftery , had composed his famous lament about ‘ playing music to empty pockets ’ ? |
| 11 | Not unti1 1937 was there anything like the industrial unrest of the 1920s and this took place mainly outside the traditional centres of militancy . |
| 12 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 13 | ‘ He was never yours in the first place . |