Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When would that have been about this were they in the second division then or |
| 2 | This was what in fact occurred in the leading Australian case of Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 . |
| 3 | This was something about which he was continually teased , as a means of exerting informal pressure on him to desist . |
| 4 | This was something between her , and Luke , and those other women he had betrayed . |
| 5 | It was more or less understood that this was something between Mafouz and Sheikh . |
| 6 | So it was n't just the joy , he was used to that , this was something over and above that . |
| 7 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |
| 8 | He was n't sure whether this was something to be welcomed or resisted . |
| 9 | In describing a proposed combined heat and power scheme , Auslan Cramb claims in a report today that carbon dioxide emissions contribute to the greenhouse effect ( as if this was something to be avoided ) . |
| 10 | It appeared that Princess Anne was not one of her admirers , and though Princess Anne 's views were at this time usually rather criticised this was something for the press to get its teeth into . |
| 11 | As this was something of a lovers ' lane , he had a good chance of catching a couple knobbing on the back seat And Steve , as I 'd already found out for myself , always did like a bit of voyeurism . |
| 12 | This was something of bonus for the Williams since it had learned next to nothing during practice thanks to niggling problems associated with a new car . |
| 13 | This was something of an exaggeration , and paleontologists made serious mistakes when reconstructing the more bizarre species from the older rocks , but only the anatomist could hope to make sense out of the discoveries . |
| 14 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |
| 15 | For two people who both were always in control , this was something of a miracle — to let go of control completely — to trust enough that they were both hurled into the abyss of pure sensation , pure feeling . |
| 16 | This was something like the art the Progressive era needed . |
| 17 | This was one for the book . |
| 18 | This was one about the three crooks from London who dressed up in African tribal costumes and tricked jewellers into parting with gear worth £250,000 in exchange for boxes containing carrots and potatoes . |
| 19 | This was nothing but an elaborate hoax perpetrated by her in revenge for all the suffering I had caused her . |
| 20 | This was nothing to what came ten years later , no more than a mini-boom , but prices began to rise and estate agents to rub their hands and gird their loins and look about them . |
| 21 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but this was nothing to the delighted grandfather . |
| 22 | But in one instance , he makes the text longer : this is where he replaces " this was nothing to the delighted grandfather " by " the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel " . |
| 23 | This was nothing to what happened after the second turn as the French-Romanian feud continued . |
| 24 | During the first six months of its existence it recorded 156 combats and seventeen confirmed victories ; most of these at Verdun , where it fought intermittently from May to Though still only partially fledged , the Lafayette 's direct contribution to the Battle of Verdun had been significant ; but this was nothing to what , indirectly , its presence there did for the French cause . |
| 25 | And those who worked with him on ecumenical committees knew that this was nothing like so rigid an Anglo-Catholic as sometimes he was portrayed ; and remembered what he did for the Methodists and other non-Anglicans in Durham . |
| 26 | This was none of your mensa-a-table , this was a flash from the forbidden planet , and it was everywhere . |
| 27 | All right , this was none of my business . |
| 28 | Dear God , all this was none of her business anyway . |
| 29 | There were also many more limited ventures such as Pearson 's Fresh Air Fund , established in 1896 by Arthur Pearson , the founder of The Daily Express , to provide country holidays for city children , and this was itself among the inspirations for the fresh air philosophies of Baden-Powell 's Boy Scouts launched in 1908 . |
| 30 | ( that time when it looked as if this was it at last , |