Example sentences of "was [prep] [noun sg] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Procreation was of course the ultimate goal , but sexual satisfaction in marriage was important for both partners . |
| 4 | ‘ Appropriate ’ was of course the key word here . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There was of course the complicating factor that this time it was ‘ Mary ’ , not ‘ David ’ . |
| 8 | The thing which links but separates these two modes of selection was of course the epistemological primacy of empirical science : |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I was in bed the whole week . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ; |
| 16 | What provoked it was in part the ecclesiastical reform movement . |
| 17 | no a couple of weeks later , erm , we , we went on a big route marching stuff and he was in agony the old stubble |
| 18 | Although he was in repose the same energy she had noticed when she first met him oozed through his body . |
| 19 | Then I became aware that the bank of white clouds beyond was in reality the great ice-cap of Vatnajökull . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Berlin Wall both epitomised and was in fact the East-West divide . |
| 22 | The only er solid part of the wardrobe was in fact the front part , which was made of Sorry about that . |
| 23 | It was in fact the front room of a house . |
| 24 | ( rune was in fact the only libero to have no weaknesses in an evalution in a recent number of influental german football magazine kicker : good in the air , fast , great tackler , great understanding and so on , in short : the bundesliga 's best libero . |
| 25 | It was in fact the first time in his life that he had looked at any woman . |
| 26 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 27 | When the Data Protection Committee was set up in 1976 , to redeem a pledge made by the Home Secretary when Younger reported , It had no such limitation put upon it — it was in fact the first body empowered to investigate information systems in the public sector , and the Committee came to see this as a major aspect of its work . |
| 28 | The question was even raised in the Dail about the fact that although the State paid teachers it was in fact the Catholic church which fired them . |
| 29 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 30 | Do you now think the way of organising your essay was in fact the best way of approaching the topic ? |