Example sentences of "was [prep] [det] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The only evidence as to the value of Caliban was that it was worth less than the $2.5m. in fact paid .
2 To the east of the Abbey precinct , the manor of Abbot 's Barton stretched for nearly three miles towards Upton St Leonards , and it was through this that the waterways and mills were constructed .
3 The issue was about more than the Chairman 's statue , however .
4 He fell silent as if this was of little or no account .
5 Its weight could be further reduced by removing the cooling jacket , and it was like this that the Lewis gun was used as a hand-directed weapon on Allied aircraft .
6 Lewis 's popularity was part of this , and it was with more than a scent of victory in the air , victory over the agnostics and freethinkers , that he consented to be involved with the foundation of the Socratic Club in Oxford in 1941 .
7 And they used to let us come out of the pit at three quarter time , there were six of us , all of a size , strong as young bulls and er we used to have to i if the body was within less than a mile from the church , you see ?
8 By the early 1960s only two small herds of perhaps a dozen pedigree animals remained and it was from these that the society , revived yet again in 1982 and with the help of various organisations including the Rare Breeds Survival Trust , formed a new herdbook in 1983 in an attempt to save the breed from extinction .
9 It was from this that the tabernacle was furnished ( 35:20ff . ) .
10 It was at these that the onlookers were chuckling .
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