Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was that all the talk about |
| 2 | And why it was that such a man should want to fight against the Seven . |
| 3 | His unspoken premise was that such a space for freedom would always continue to exist ; he saw Parliament and the courts as guardians of liberty . |
| 4 | And was that such a fault ? |
| 5 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
| 6 | The core of their problem was that such a device necessarily had to be a computer and a powerful one . |
| 7 | The monistic position , as we saw , was that such an idea , ii closely examined , does not make clear sense , because there can be no unequivocal criteria of numerical diversity . |
| 8 | Well , I was putting it on the foil and I thought : ‘ This could kill me ’ , but it was that strong the urge to have it , I did n't care . |
| 9 | Or was this all a mistake ? |
| 10 | But er there was a lot there was a lot of girls and th I do n't know what had what had happened but I mean , that was the worst thing , he 'd went up in the lift and there was quite there was some other the rest of the people in the lift er was trapped and was burned to death you know , tragic end . |
| 11 | ‘ Poor Daddy , it was all such a bore , ’ she said , turning the pages over hurriedly . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , ’ said Sally-Anne , wiping her mouth with her napkin , ‘ it was all such a surprise , the evening started out so well . |
| 13 | The thing that annoyed him most was that this was all such a waste of time when there was work to do . |
| 14 | It was all fine the way it was |