Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For if this were really the case , a communicative approach would have little or nothing to commend it . |
| 2 | The late Hans Keller , the most peppery and venerable writer on music since George Bernard Shaw , dearly wished that this were still the case . |
| 3 | Mr Kirkland said : ‘ If this were so the Safety Authority would not let us go ahead and build the tunnel . |
| 4 | Yet if this were indeed the law , then surely the Act must have had as its object something of greater moment than the nudie magazines and nude pamphlets which British juries were asked so regularly to assess for depravity . |
| 5 | If this were indeed the whole truth about anorexia nervosa , it would be a straightforward medical problem , and therefore comparatively simple to resolve . |
| 6 | But for all Dwyer 's optimism , this was just the sort of loose game in which the Wallabies excel and , although they have undoubted talent , the youngsters are going to find things considerably tighter in France . |
| 7 | Earlier that morning Wexford had quoted Justice Shallow and now , as he contemplated Jolyon Vigo 's house , he thought that this was just the sort of place Shallow might have lived in . |
| 8 | This was just the sort of thing Henry wanted to read . |
| 9 | This was just the type of craft possessed by Jack Williamson , the percussion sideman with most of the CBR orchestras , and one Sunday he invited the Windrush crowd for a cruise up Howe Sound and Squamish Inlet to Bowen Island . |
| 10 | This was just the sort of attitude the paper wanted — in another context it would have been a good news story . |
| 11 | Then I realized that this was just the beginning . |
| 12 | This was just the ticket , I thought , sitting on my canvas chair , quietly digesting my cake . |
| 13 | This was just the sort of thing — a secret service playing God — that usually had George registering y on the Richter Scale . |
| 14 | ‘ Little did I know that this was just the tip of an Iceberg , frozen on chat shows , enlarged on British Telecom commercials and now floating treacherously towards me . |
| 15 | But it was good just to lie in the darkness , curled against him , listening to his even breathing , and know this was just the first night of the rest of their lives . |
| 16 | Rubbish , she told herself crossly , this was just the shyness resulting from that stupid dream . |
| 17 | Considering that this was just the period when women were making history , Thompson has got it very wrong indeed . |
| 18 | The report acknowledged , however , that this was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 19 | WITH Justin Fashanu 's black tie do to look forward to on Saturday evening , this was just the result to put the Airdrie players in the party mood . |
| 20 | And we 've now reached a situation in which there 's something over twenty percent of our streets is multiple occupation , erm and this is noise and other activities in relation to that are the things that cause the sort of low level of concern , and this was just the peak on top of that of major aggravation . |
| 21 | This was exactly the proportion of the tax in kind collected in the Roslavl' area up to November 1921 . |
| 22 | This was exactly the result that did occur . |
| 23 | By some kind of irony this was exactly the reverse of the trouble with masonry cathedrals which fell down because they turned out to be in tension when the builders held that they were in compression . |
| 24 | Before I read the book , I thought this was exactly the opposite of the truth . |
| 25 | Richard was still not allowed to speak — he was not recovering quite so fast as had been expected — and he could make little reply when Laura told him that this was exactly the kind of thing she had expected all along , and that she would see about disposing of Lord Jim immediately . |
| 26 | This was exactly the kind of non-issue that Owen did n't want to get involved in . |
| 27 | In 1953 , he was voted best actor and director for his theatre work , this was also the year in which he directed NAGARIK ( THE CITIZEN ) , the first of the eight feature films that he completed . |
| 28 | This was also the last opportunity for candidates to press late claims for a place in the third Test at Wigan on Saturday . |
| 29 | This was also the reality of the covert world , fuelled by information others did not know relayed by carriers whose real identity was hidden ; a world of secret agents , mystery papers , dreadful imaginings and improbable suspicions . |
| 30 | But this was also the side , North was saying , of God against the Godless . |