Example sentences of "[det] was [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason for this was that all officers of the Associations were honorary and had other jobs which kept them busy . |
| 2 | While at school the following day there was a general rumour being passed around , this was that all pupils were going to be sent home . |
| 3 | One consequence of this was that many stories were not really about events but merely reports or rewrites of speeches made by leading politicians at events . |
| 4 | Although in actual practice the Formalists tended to concentrate on the formal qualities of literature , this was because formal devices were taken to be the means whereby defamiliarization was realized . |
| 5 | In part this was because feminist energy was increasingly channelled into anti-war and anti-fascist activity . |
| 6 | This was because these systems employ passive memory inspected by a sequential central processor . |
| 7 | This was because these changes required the approval of Congress , which was not granted because it was controlled by opposition parties . |
| 8 | This was because these capitalists lived in part or in whole out of the profits which should have been shared with all those who had helped in the process of production . |
| 9 | This was because those steps had been reasonable ones to take even though they had in the event aggravated the losses . |
| 10 | Popular participation in electoral politics began to flag after 1951 but arguably this was because most people felt less urgency as regards political change ; there was no strong and deep-going popular reaction against the government . |
| 11 | This was because second-hand cars are all unique . |
| 12 | This was because human beings worked things out in their minds in terms of concepts and moral rules , and these concepts and rules were not things the individual made for himself on the spur of the moment . |
| 13 | This was and excellent example . |
| 14 | What excited him most of all was that these pieces , each so different , each showing a restless determination to experiment , all had the signature of Wyspianski . |
| 15 | Perhaps most remarkable of all was that this system of government was based on a written Constitution , drawn up by a group of politicians at the end of the 18th century and only altered on rare occasions since ( there had been 19 Amendments to the Constitution by 1920 ) . |
| 16 | That was until United goalkeeper Debbie Phillips was sent off for using foul and abusive language , and replaced by impressive stand-in , woman of the match Kate Wells . |
| 17 | Why I er , said that was because twenty years ago we were n't a second-rate football team . |