Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prisoners flexible enough to develop new goals also seem to cope better , even if those goals were something along the lines of becoming the world record holder for the number of consecutive push ups . |
| 2 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 3 | Alternatively , the killer was someone from the house who had secured the door to ensure privacy , but opened it again after his crime to confirm the impression that an outsider was involved . |
| 4 | If we had n't heard so much about him from Robert , we 'd find it impossible to imagine that this bloke was anything but the most upright of citizens . ’ |
| 5 | In 1924 , the All Blacks undertook internal matches against Auckland and Manawatu as preparation for a European tour and promptly lost 14-3 to Auckland , who in those days were nothing like the force they are now . |
| 6 | One of the most interesting papers on stratigraphical palaeontology published in recent years was one on the dating of old mining camps in the American West by means of beer bottles and beer cans . |
| 7 | Er members will recall that the potential savings that might from the original was something in the order of eight to nine hundred thousand pounds and of course the majority of those er present the saving will be policy will be consideration . |
| 8 | Ignoring his dig , she decided that if the inside was anything like the outside she could bear to wait . |
| 9 | The adjustment factor was one for the under 65 group and three for the over 65 group . |
| 10 | Contemporary art was anything but the strong point of the Salon , with Paris dealers in particular showing a large number of deja vu works and recording few sales . |
| 11 | THE FLOW of cards and bouquets was nothing to the stream of very important people arriving at No 10 Downing Street yesterday . |
| 12 | Even the early varieties developed in the time of Browning and Tennyson were nothing like the splendours of today , and one wonders what the genius of their poetic expressions would have made of the ethereal glow in the half light of ‘ Super Star ’ ( see page 129 ) , the exquisite shape and deepest of all crimson-black red of ‘ Charles Mallerin ’ or a hundred and one other modern marvels . |
| 13 | The critical distinction drawn by Lord Bridge of Harwich was one between the decision making functions of the local authority and its executive functions , by which I take Lord Bridge to mean the administrative acts to be performed in giving effect to the relevant decision . |
| 14 | The slave was nothing in the eyes of the law . |
| 15 | And that voice was nothing like the voice he had heard on the tape of church music . |
| 16 | Even Nutty felt that the obstacles to be overcome in the Hawkwood path were something in the nature of the Grand National course . |
| 17 | People were impostors and children were nothing but the promise of broken bones . |
| 18 | and he could n't do it and the worse thing was everybody in the pool had gone go on |
| 19 | They held up posters rejecting the idea that their fathers were anything like the Gestapo , and calling for ‘ full social security ’ for Stasi officers expected to lose their posts in the process of trimming the service . |
| 20 | St Paul understood the distinctive heart of Christianity to lie in the historic facts of the gospel ; the Jesus of history was one with the Christ of his faith , who was also the eternal wisdom of God in creation . |
| 21 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 22 | On these walls were none of the usual posters bidding young mothers to drink milk in pregnancy and bring their toddlers for a twice-yearly check-up . |
| 23 | Moreover the style faithfully mirrors the puerility of the content : to think that the barons who faced King John at Runnymede were anything like the Cokes or Hampdens who challenged the royal prerogative of the Stuarts in the seventeenth century , or that these in turn had much or anything in common with Sam and John Adams or Tom Paine , is to adopt the notorious ‘ Whig interpretation ’ of English history in a sort of parody version for grade school . |