Example sentences of "[ex0] was the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general this was the pattern for Polish industrialisation as a whole — a phenomenon that took place when there was the least chance of Poland ever regaining an independent existence . |
| 2 | There was the same mission to conquer land with gold replacing milk and honey , a wagon-train exodus , a plethora of heroes with a policy of taking an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth . |
| 3 | He repeated the query , substituting biscuit , ice-cream , banana ; there was the same level of response , but nothing more . |
| 4 | Again there was the same kind of voice : ‘ Wheee … wheee … |
| 5 | Can you imagine opening a daily newspaper , and finding that on every page , there was the same message from God ; or can you imagine watching breakfast TV — or listening to the Today programme — and finding that every feature was a message from God , with different emphases , but always the same message . |
| 6 | There was the same combination that I had seen before : collected in groups that seemed threatening because you were not part of them , and between these bright areas black , empty alleys full of odd forebodings . |
| 7 | There was the same turbine house , but there were also huge plastic multi-coloured geodesic domes covering steam taps , pipes leaking noxious gas and a general weirdness . |
| 8 | After 1914 there was the same certainty about the war , and it was indeed the inflexible determination of the Unionist party , sure about ends and pragmatic as to means , that was the bedrock on which Britain 's war effort rested . |
| 9 | There was the same note , the same feeling of hard comradeship that Forester had shown once before towards Carson , back in Langstone . |
| 10 | There was the same gap between understanding and the possibility of action when I read Simone de Beauvoir 's The Second Sex just before leaving university . |