Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three doors of this were really long mirrors , and it was to the wardrobe that Miss Rene went and , opening it , she lifted down a hanger from which hung a dress and coat . |
| 2 | Now this is open here is this were there particular things you wanted to do ? |
| 3 | A few were merely giant heads ; for fashions changed . |
| 4 | Some were even good communists . |
| 5 | Some were already sprouting feathers and were busily preening the new growth , some were sleeping off their last feed of fish , while others were food-begging from every bird within reach . |
| 6 | Some were simply modified versions of " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " . |
| 7 | The holdings varied greatly in size : some were almost small farms while others were plots too small to support their owners . |
| 8 | Of the eight million or more words to which the nine-volume fifth edition ultimately amounted , over half were entirely new articles or replacements of old ones , and nearly all else was revised . |
| 9 | This was just five days after his seventeenth birthday , and in the first weeks of his first term in Cape Town , so there was cause for excitement . |
| 10 | This was just one example of a repetitive pattern of interaction they had . |
| 11 | She had done science before ; this was just more science . |
| 12 | Though he sometimes raised the possibility of having to step outside normal channels if " certain people were to stifle democracy " , this was just provocative rhetoric . |
| 13 | It was some kind of a medical thing ; he 'd seen the bracelets before , and this was just another variation . |
| 14 | This was just another jigsaw piece in the bizarre events of the night . |
| 15 | This was just another example of the way in which the Major camp has consistently missed opportunities . |
| 16 | Anyone would think this was just any Christmas . |
| 17 | Graham felt happier with this direct assault ; this was just gay misogyny , not even genuine at that , but another of Slater 's roles . |
| 18 | Of course , this was n't simple philanthropy on the part of the malai military , although there was the element of impressing locals and making propaganda with such foreign visitors as there now were , but a tactical requirement . |
| 19 | This was also another issue always close to Mr Chatrier 's heart . |
| 20 | This was how the identity of a local community was articulated against its oppressors ; this was where local men and women , also , were helped in their illnesses and misfortunes generally ; this was a major instrument of social order at the grass roots in an age of political fragmentation . |
| 21 | Whether this was simply false modesty on their part , or something of a more cosmic nature , Cornelius had always been eager to discover . |
| 22 | Rain suspected this was rather flimsy evidence on which to accuse Oliver of trafficking in drugs . |
| 23 | This was most unlike adults of my previous experience . |
| 24 | Mrs Layton remembered washing until 4 am when her husband was temporarily unemployed , and this was physically arduous work . |
| 25 | This was decidedly amateur night and if the book itself had n't stuck out like a sore thumb among the reference works , then a quick look at the floppy spine would have given the game away . |
| 26 | This was formerly standard practice but had lapsed in recent years . |
| 27 | This was surely strong meat for them ? |
| 28 | But this was surely one occasion that , for the good of the game , the benefit of the doubt must surely have been given to England , regardless of the word of the law . |
| 29 | Haydn 's Nelson Mass may have overt marshall overtones , but this was surely little excuse for what , at times , descended to little more than an inglorious romp . |
| 30 | This was not good news . |