Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those were for us a real burden . |
| 2 | In the period leading up to and immediately following the introduction of the National Curriculum , such qualitative gains were in themselves an essential resource . |
| 3 | ‘ Naturally , I would prefer McCoist to play because if we were without him the Maltese coach , Philip Psaila , would be entitled to rub his hands in delight . ’ |
| 4 | And it seemed to her that that broken line , I know not , oh , I know not " , expressed a level of passion as high as any the English language could achieve ; the interjection and the repetition and the archaic inversion were to her the exhaled breath of yearning . |
| 5 | It is clearly inconsistent for one who calls Jesus " Lord " to think lightly of those scriptures which were to him the supreme revelation of God . |
| 6 | Although I realized that my faulty literary judgment was the occasion for his reaction — for he must have been well-accustomed to reading manuscripts of surpassing dullness — because when lie wrote to Wakefield-Harrey it was in firm but polite terms , which , since they were from Eliot , were to him the next best thing to commendation . |
| 7 | Yet there were also great difficulties in fitting these large numbers of people into what was for them a new and strange society . |
| 8 | Setting a blistering pace of 91pts on day one , on day two it was 92pts easing off slightly on Sunday it was for them a modest 89pts to give them a grand total of 272pts , 16pts clear of the teams in second and third places on 256pts they were Karl O'Donnell ( Newlands ) , C Burke , V Burke , C McKeone . |
| 9 | The Irish hierarchy immediately campaigned against what was for them a drastic solution . |
| 10 | Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob . |
| 11 | It was for him a dreadful test of endurance . |
| 12 | He said it was for him the perfect realization of Sibelius as a passionate but anti-sensual composer . |
| 13 | His idea of the " popular play " is important , since his devotion to the music hall and his belief that the poet can only be socially useful in the theatre spurred him on to achieve what was for him the unachievable : the plays bear all the marks of their deliberate and laborious composition . |
| 14 | When some years ago I decided to pay the Life Governor 's subscription the expense was for me a serious cost but was willing to pay it to ensure that I should continue to enjoy the privileges without having to worry about future subscriptions when I had retired from salaried work . |
| 15 | Beyond and above the jolt to the national memory , there was for me a special exhumation of the past . |
| 16 | Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire . |
| 17 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 18 | ‘ I have brought you here , Miss Kyte , ’ resumed Miss Merchiston in what was for her a pleasant tone , ‘ that you may tell Mr Quatt of what passed between yourself and my dear mother . ’ |
| 19 | And finally , her particular motive for deception is surely not far to seek : the crucial consideration is that Nietzsche 's relationship with Wagner , with which the genesis of the book is bound up , was for her a sensitive issue in which her brother 's reputation was particularly at stake . |
| 20 | Shapira 's explanation is that Zoila had reached what was for her a satisfactory level of interaction and was not motivated to progress . |
| 21 | The thought of going home was for her the final impossibility , but she could not see any satisfactory way of avoiding it . |
| 22 | In the same month , in what was for her the last term of her formal education , Alix became engaged to Sebastian Manning . |
| 23 | As far as the RAF was concerned , they had this nice little lull when losses fell substantially , so it was for us a calm period in the storm . |
| 24 | The danger arises if you happen to arrive at what was for you a distressing time and there is no one there to help you deal with it in the way I shall describe in Chapter 2 . |
| 25 | In an obituary , Seamus Heaney wrote , ‘ There was about him a delicate wildness , and he often thought that the hare , about which he had gathered so many entrancing stories , was his proper , total animal . |
| 26 | Even like that , hopelessly drunk and quite tired out , there was about him an appealing look of promise , of everything that can be meant by friendship . |
| 27 | He will be even more fortunate if he has his conviction quashed , since there was against him an open-and-shut case under section 15 . |
| 28 | and he said for tonight and she said well she said I never felt so embarrassed she said I did n't know where to put myself she said and the girl that was with her the other demonstrator |
| 29 | ‘ I was with him the other night and some of the things he was saying , I know that if he found out about us … ’ |
| 30 | He was in something the other day which I watched . |