Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A part of this change was a fall in the number of widowed mothers . |
| 2 | Pressures and activities of this kind were a facet of the increasingly active discussion of problems of international peace , and the ways in which it might be preserved , which were preoccupying many radicals and idealists in western Europe during the last decades before the war . |
| 3 | This story was a favourite of the headmistress of her primary school , so she heard it often at Morning Prayers , and long before she could see it as a parable , she already felt shock before its injustice . |
| 4 | This trial was a parallel , double blind , double placebo trial for one year comparing 20 mg enalapril plus placebo hydrochlorothiazide ( enalapril group ) with placebo enalapril plus 25 mg hydrochlorothiazide ( hydrochlorothiazide group ) . |
| 5 | Much as I sympathise with the plaintiffs , it would , in my opinion , be extending the implications based on the maxim … to an unreasonable extent if it were held that what has been done in this case was a breach of an implied obligation . |
| 6 | He continued by saying that ‘ the decision of the chief constable not to intervene in this case was a policy decision with which … the courts should not interfere ’ . |
| 7 | One thing I forgot to bring with me this afternoon was a tape of the assembly worship I 'm sorry about that , but I do n't think you 've got a tape recorder have you ? |
| 8 | This strip was a lot different . |
| 9 | However , scrutiny of the events leading up to the 9 July announcement suggests that this decision was a result not so much of Soviet ‘ opportunism ’ as of the policies of the Eisenhower administration and the brinkmanship of Fidel Castro . |
| 10 | ( Incidentally , this building was a stone 's throw from the doctor 's surgery and within sight of the door . ) |
| 11 | Once this building was a monastery . |
| 12 | ‘ If anything this election was a referendum … on the GST and … the people of Australia have spoken , ’ he said . |
| 13 | This rise was a result of successful actions being brought under the negligence principle . |
| 14 | Realising that this experiment was a flop , Mr Rahal ordered two Lolas for the remainder of the season . |
| 15 | Under the armpit of Scandinavia , Finland fits like a gusset ; and if this gusset was a piece of rotten calico then it would rip in the ragged shredded way that Finland has done . |
| 16 | At the end of the seventies , after annually spending substantially more than the yearly income , the price for this extravagance was a reduction in the number of staff . |
| 17 | Since most of the states were members of its western alliance and important for its own economy , this rift was a matter of grave concern to the United States , which saw the abrupt ending of the Maudling negotiations as effectively signifying the ending of the OEEC 's role as the leading West European economic organisation . |
| 18 | This attempt was a reaction to the experience of the British in Uganda in the 1950s . |
| 19 | The immediate cause of this switch was a ban on the export of walnut from the Savoie region of France — the principal source of the wood for the English industry — by the French government in 1720 . |
| 20 | Even this sortie was a test flight . |
| 21 | There have been many classic occasions down the years , one as far back as 1973 when the writer of this piece was a makeweight speaker at a Yorkshire Post literary lunch in Harrogate , attended by four hundred elegant people — mostly well-heeled , middle aged ladies in all their finery . |
| 22 | For those of us who fret about ways in which modern technology distances us from understanding this programme was a revelation . |
| 23 | As no rugby country has won at Parc des Princes since England did so in 1982 ( remember Colin Smart and the after-shave ? ) , this result was a revolution of sorts — which was fitting as the match and its prolonged preliminaries were designed to mark the bicentenary of the French Revolution . |
| 24 | At the end of this terrace was a brick wall some ten feet in height behind which were the gardens of the Milford Hill houses , the first of these was on the corner of the streets . |
| 25 | No doubt about it , this boy was a find . |
| 26 | The main conclusion of this work was a refutation of the ‘ azoic theory ’ , originally put forward by Edward Forbes [ q.v. ] |
| 27 | This showed that in practice relatively few , one in ten , of those who had spent any time in residential homes were thought to have been admitted ‘ too late ’ ; this proportion was a quarter for those who had not spent any time in a residential home . |
| 28 | It might be that this girl was a con woman and he and Camb the first victims of a colossal deception . |
| 29 | Sort of Oh we used to risk our necks walking across the ruddy this mill was a bit of a wreck actually and we used to go playing in places where we should n't have really . |
| 30 | This farce was a result of Sectorisation . |