Example sentences of "was [prep] [noun] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main thrust of all the writings was to show that Bonapartism was for France the natural system of government and that it had been so since the Revolution . |
| 2 | Persian is also one of the two principal languages of Afghanistan , is spoken in what was Soviet Central Asia , and was for centuries the official language of much of the Indian subcontinent , where many fine poets wrote in Persian . |
| 3 | On a rocky eminence commanding what was for centuries the lowest point at which the Forth could be bridged , the castle — on the site of a Roman fort — and its steeply pitched town stand between what was once a marshy plain and the shadowy beginnings of the Highlands beyond , with the Ochils and Trossachs already edging in . |
| 4 | We are told that he could pray in both Frankish and Latin , which was of course the official church language , although this reflects his facility with languages in general rather than any excess of devotion . |
| 5 | In 1900 Edinburgh Waverley Station boasted forty lady operators working in the telegraph department , sending out 4,000 messages a day.a But it was of course the First World War which suddenly gave a tremendous fillip to women 's employment in stations . |
| 6 | Procreation was of course the ultimate goal , but sexual satisfaction in marriage was important for both partners . |
| 7 | ‘ Appropriate ’ was of course the key word here . |
| 8 | The late sixteenth-century diplomat James Melville of Halhill wrote of the ‘ Italian posset ’ given to the king ; the leading churchman , and one of the main contenders for power , David cardinal Beaton , archbishop of St Andrews , was of course the major suspect . |
| 9 | Grammar schools separated themselves from Public Schools ( although , more accurately , it was of course the other way round ) by embedding themselves in the local provision for secondary education . |
| 10 | There was of course the complicating factor that this time it was ‘ Mary ’ , not ‘ David ’ . |
| 11 | The thing which links but separates these two modes of selection was of course the epistemological primacy of empirical science : |
| 12 | The net result was of course the high levels of unemployment of much of the 1980s . |
| 13 | ‘ Snoopy ’ in Unix argot was of course the original code name of WABI , SunSelect 's imminent Windows-on-Unix entry from its Praxsys Technologies Inc acquisition . |
| 14 | Snoopy in Unix argot was of course the original code name of WABI , SunSelect Inc 's imminent Windows-under-Unix entry from its Praxsys Technologies Inc acquisition . |
| 15 | The main duty of the foresters of fee was of course the safe keeping of vert and venison : the Forest rolls show them searching for , arresting and attaching offenders , and indicting them at the Forest Eyre . |
| 16 | Well the reason why we were attracted to it was of course the very point that that they would translate the disks for nothing , we would n't have to type out the register , and they would also add the telephone numbers without us having to look them all up so that we could do telephone canvassing . |
| 17 | As it was , she steamed from Liverpool that night and was with John the following evening . |
| 18 | I was in bed the whole week . |
| 19 | Mr. Clark had to get a bricklayer to repair the walls that were broken and he complained that although the schoolmaster was in attendance the whole time , the boys had made it worse than it was before . |
| 20 | that any delay which occurred was reasonable and , as the judge found , justifiable and was in part the inevitable consequence of following the Home Office Guidelines ( 1985 ed. ) referred to above ; |
| 21 | What provoked it was in part the ecclesiastical reform movement . |
| 22 | no a couple of weeks later , erm , we , we went on a big route marching stuff and he was in agony the old stubble |
| 23 | Although he was in repose the same energy she had noticed when she first met him oozed through his body . |
| 24 | I was in Woolworths the other day an they 've got smocked dresses now , hand smocked dresses . |
| 25 | Then I became aware that the bank of white clouds beyond was in reality the great ice-cap of Vatnajökull . |
| 26 | What Bernice Martin terms the ‘ Expressive Revolution ’ was in reality the cultural expression of defective superego-formation of epidemic proportions and chronic irresolution at the Oedipal stage of development in a vociferous fraction of the modern population , especially the young . |
| 27 | SIMON Dyer , director general of the AA , was in Belfast the other day to muster his troops and to present a European quality of service certificate to the local squad . |
| 28 | The Berlin Wall both epitomised and was in fact the East-West divide . |
| 29 | The only er solid part of the wardrobe was in fact the front part , which was made of Sorry about that . |
| 30 | It was in fact the front room of a house . |