Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sermons and catechisms were of course the primary means of conversion , but images of angels with guns were useful symbols of important teachings of the church . |
| 2 | Since reports were in sign the lexical identification of individual items often derived from the other parameters . |
| 3 | The shoddy tower-blocks and monotonous housing estates into which the ex-peasants were already being herded twenty-five years ago were in fact the first stage of systematically transforming life in the country . |
| 4 | They were in fact the first of the so-called Friendly Islands to be seen by Europeans : the Dutch navigators Willem Corneliszoon Schouten and Jacob LeMaire spotted them in April 1616 . |
| 5 | Using her clearance codes , Reynard skipped nimbly into the data terraces he visualised as a vast graveyard , but which were in fact the accumulated records of all known people in Arcady , all employees , current and late , of Tech-Green , all public workers in the country , all suspect characters and a host of other subsections of humanity . |
| 6 | If the other Devon districts were in fact the chief suppliers of patients and users of the big hospital facilities then it would make sense for management and costs to be handed over to them . |
| 7 | Acts of seemingly disinterested friendship , reinforced by regular social contacts , were in fact the only sound approach to building a powerful county interest . |
| 8 | The greatest masses of material were in fact the published fictional works of Walter Machin : the yellowing typescripts of The Factory Whistle and Cotton Town , retrieved from their original publishers , and a collection of miscellaneous stories and articles from newspapers which eventually would be published in book form . |
| 9 | These were in fact the old single deck Subway cars rebodied . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , if men such as these were in fact the local recruiting agents , not all were equipped for the job ; Nicholas Hill of Oakham , though servant to no less a figure than the king , possessed neither arms nor armour . |
| 11 | Thomas Cook and his family were without doubt the single most important innovators , establishing not only a major business enterprise but methods of operation that were to have global implications . |
| 12 | When you were on TV the other night , were you watching us ? ’ |
| 13 | Derry Holmes his wife and six children were on board the Celtic Pride Ferry when it made what was only it 's second voyage . |
| 14 | We are told that he could pray in both Frankish and Latin , which was of course the official church language , although this reflects his facility with languages in general rather than any excess of devotion . |
| 15 | In 1900 Edinburgh Waverley Station boasted forty lady operators working in the telegraph department , sending out 4,000 messages a day.a But it was of course the First World War which suddenly gave a tremendous fillip to women 's employment in stations . |
| 16 | Procreation was of course the ultimate goal , but sexual satisfaction in marriage was important for both partners . |
| 17 | ‘ Appropriate ’ was of course the key word here . |
| 18 | The late sixteenth-century diplomat James Melville of Halhill wrote of the ‘ Italian posset ’ given to the king ; the leading churchman , and one of the main contenders for power , David cardinal Beaton , archbishop of St Andrews , was of course the major suspect . |
| 19 | Grammar schools separated themselves from Public Schools ( although , more accurately , it was of course the other way round ) by embedding themselves in the local provision for secondary education . |
| 20 | The one lay lord whose scope was seriously limited in this was of course the greatest , the King , who could seek no patron , and whose fiscal resources from taxation had to be charged on men whose own landed resources were under pressure . |
| 21 | There was of course the complicating factor that this time it was ‘ Mary ’ , not ‘ David ’ . |
| 22 | The thing which links but separates these two modes of selection was of course the epistemological primacy of empirical science : |
| 23 | The net result was of course the high levels of unemployment of much of the 1980s . |
| 24 | ‘ Snoopy ’ in Unix argot was of course the original code name of WABI , SunSelect 's imminent Windows-on-Unix entry from its Praxsys Technologies Inc acquisition . |
| 25 | Snoopy in Unix argot was of course the original code name of WABI , SunSelect Inc 's imminent Windows-under-Unix entry from its Praxsys Technologies Inc acquisition . |
| 26 | The main duty of the foresters of fee was of course the safe keeping of vert and venison : the Forest rolls show them searching for , arresting and attaching offenders , and indicting them at the Forest Eyre . |
| 27 | Well the reason why we were attracted to it was of course the very point that that they would translate the disks for nothing , we would n't have to type out the register , and they would also add the telephone numbers without us having to look them all up so that we could do telephone canvassing . |
| 28 | Now you know the decisive event of American history , the most important single event in American history was of course the American civil war . |
| 29 | I was in bed the whole week . |
| 30 | Mr. Clark had to get a bricklayer to repair the walls that were broken and he complained that although the schoolmaster was in attendance the whole time , the boys had made it worse than it was before . |