Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So how much were they at the Swan 's then ? |
| 32 | Owen could hardly bear to look at her , so much was she at the mercy of the music , plunging with it into pits of despair , rising with it to heights of exaltation that were almost unbearable . |
| 33 | In 14 of the 21 , morning and evening papers were in the same ownership , and some of these were themselves in national or regional chains . |
| 34 | Even along this road , however , many of the old ‘ guilds ’ had become , in effect , the organizations of employing ‘ masters ’ — the craft status shifted to the economic status — and these were themselves in complex relations with the development of capitalist trade , which was breaking down the kind of autonomy from which the guilds , new and old , had derived their monopoly . |
| 35 | The training undergone by aspiring teachers in the 19th century was of a fairly rudimentary kind , and the financial rewards at the end of it all were nothing like those accorded to successful lawyers or doctors . |
| 36 | Neither were they over familiar with the tambourine . |
| 37 | Did did you recognise at that were you in court yesterday ? |
| 38 | And a joke doing the rounds in various parts of the Reich had a Berliner complaining about the severity of a raid which caused all the glass to fall out of window-frames as much as five hours later and his partner from Essen retorting that that was nothing at all : pictures of the Führer were still flying out of the window fourteen days after the last attack on Essen . |
| 39 | I was after all surviving — and that was nothing to be sneezed at , the way things had gone . |
| 40 | Her feet and hands were so cold they did n't seem to belong to her , but that was nothing to the coldness inside . |
| 41 | But that was nothing to the agony of never seeing him again , her heart replied despairingly . |
| 42 | That was nothing to my thoughts two minutes later when I joined the back of a long queue for a bus that already had people standing ! |
| 43 | That was nothing to me . |
| 44 | That was something at the time that I felt I did n't really need myself . |
| 45 | And the Bishop married me there and the vicar and er quite a lot of people had come there from all over like because I was being marrying in the Welsh church you see , I did n't have a lot of And the Bishop married me , that was something for them to come . |
| 46 | That was something for her to say . |
| 47 | All 10 proved negative , but he added : ‘ That was something of a dry run . |
| 48 | But that was something of a false dawn . |
| 49 | That was something of an exaggeration , but any emphasis on the rate of growth of manufacturing generally must take account of the weight of particular export-inclined industries in total output . |
| 50 | That was something to be thankful for . |
| 51 | That was something to be thankful for . |
| 52 | And that was something to er an experience to cherish ! |
| 53 | The the trust has actually approached several Council 's in the area not just Harlow Council obviously but many many other Councils and I think there was only one other Council that provided some funding and that was something like two hundred and fifty pounds was offered at one time I think that 's ceased now so there is no other Council although although it 'd be interesting tonight although fifty per cent of the people who actually use this facility actually come from outside the town but there 's no funding directly or indirectly from any other Council so my knowledge would be if you exclude B P exclude General Portfolio perhaps I 'm doing other companies a disservice I ca n't think of any other major company in town that 's actually provided but Gordon can you think of . |
| 54 | And that was something like er two hundred A D. And we know . |
| 55 | But , my gosh that was something like two years ago . |
| 56 | that was something like eighty pounds , I ca n't remember exactly |
| 57 | Well , that was something in Bo-Bo 's favour ! |
| 58 | That was something in her favour . |
| 59 | I thought that was him on the photo , was it ? |
| 60 | That was him on the door . |