Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main tenets of this were nationalisation of foreign concessions , expropriation of large landed estates ( although it was not specified to whom they should be transferred , an omission reflecting the ambivalent attitudes regarding the role of the peasantry , which proved one of the most controversial issues in the debates between Latin American and Soviet Marxisms ) , repudiation of the national debt , rejection of imperialist control over the economy , the fight for an eight-hour day and the ‘ stamping out of semi-slave-like conditions of labour ’ . |
| 2 | Funny were sort of company is n't it ? |
| 3 | Some were part of my social life as well , even if this was simply lunching together in the staff canteen or dropping into the pub for a drink on the way home . |
| 4 | This was manna for the banks . |
| 5 | In private cases this was progress of a substantial order . |
| 6 | This was work with a tradition of culture and self-improvement . |
| 7 | In his professional opinion this was overreaction on my part , and he was extremely inconvenienced by my insistence not to be examined internally by him . |
| 8 | This was part of a new drive , following criticism in the Serpell Report that the railway was too ‘ production led ’ to become more businesslike . |
| 9 | This was part of the good life , and they were not to be denied it . |
| 10 | It is true that she was not academic ; this was part of her charm for Lewis . |
| 11 | Dark brown hair , dark brown eyes , and slightly sallow skin which the photographer had not bothered to disguise or retouch , having understood that this was part of her charm . |
| 12 | This was part of the enigma in his character . |
| 13 | Passats , BMWs , dormer windows , back extensions , wooden garden sheds , all meant something more than at first appeared — white wooden railings , gold nameplates on doors , stained-glass windows in bathrooms , net curtains , numbered dustbins , unnumbered dustbins , sash windows , plate-glass windows , windows with double glazing , windows without double glazing , walls painted white , all of this was part of a body of myth as strange and mysterious as the Epic of Gilgamesh . |
| 14 | Or perhaps this was part of some internal clock of hers and , at some moments , often weeks or months apart , Elinor was programmed to be briefly but definitely pleasant . |
| 15 | This was part of it : |
| 16 | Some of the documents reproduced in this pamphlet certainly provide disturbing evidence of the politicization of the curriculum , especially in parts of the ILEA , and to expose this was part of the purpose of the pamphlet . |
| 17 | This was part of Fender 's problem , of course , and the 30″ scale length strings were so unusual at the time as to cause major headaches in manufacture . |
| 18 | This was part of a new chain of coastal castles from Cornwall to Kent , and stands proud in its military symmetry against the flat marshland of the Rother estuary . |
| 19 | This was part of a huge complex of buildings that had been owned by the Bulgarian Communist Party . |
| 20 | This was part of the big garage at the top of the drive by the road . |
| 21 | He believed also that the monastic community at Canterbury with a primatial archbishop at its head was the source of order throughout the whole huge area of the archbishop 's primatial authority ; he thought too that this was part of an unchanging order of things , which should not be made the subject of political bargaining either with the pope or the king . |
| 22 | This was part of the cultural revolution which has gone on ever since . |
| 23 | Oddly enough , given that this was part of an attack on positivism generally , Matza used the traditional tool of positivism ( the questionnaire ) to make the point . |
| 24 | This was part of his belief that poetic composition was not an activity that could be consciously controlled , that it had its roots far down in the unconscious . |
| 25 | ( This was part of the holiday cleaning-up . |
| 26 | This was part of a wider project to develop forms of youth work to counter the appeal of the National Front amongst this group . |
| 27 | This was part of a general campaign for education ; the enemy of progress was ignorance . |
| 28 | He expelled his laugh in a single breath and was serious again , wanting to study her more , like a doctor , she thought , looking for symptoms , and she allowed him , remembering that this was part of sorrow . |
| 29 | Perhaps this was part of the Stroicim Inchinn . |
| 30 | This was part of a European project , organized by Struve , to measure an arc from Valentia in Ireland to Orsk in Russia . |