Example sentences of "this [was/were] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the best of it , I thought ; such actions and such responses had justified my life . |
| 2 | Gloucester scored three tries in six minutes and this was the best of them … it was made by a kick on from Cummins … the ball bounced perfectly for Jerry Perrins who was unmarked in the fast lane with a straight drive to the line to park the ball … |
| 3 | Hence , this was the first of his conference performances which was aimed primarily at the nation . |
| 4 | This was the first of the eight birdies Davies gathered , the best of all being her three at the 315-yard 13th hole , where she drove the green . |
| 5 | Despite many previous approaches to Macmillan , this was the first of Hardy 's novels to be published by the firm . |
| 6 | This was the first of a series of amateur performances of adaptations of Hardy 's novels by the Dorchester Debating and Dramatic Society . |
| 7 | So much detail was not available to her then but she would have agreed to it all and later she would be able to describe more of the room , the contents of the cabinets , even the names of the people represented in the photographs on top of the piano ; she did not know then that this was the first of many visits to this room . |
| 8 | This was the first of the new weekly meetings he had initiated . |
| 9 | The Brunswick Company claimed their ‘ Light Ray Process ’ could cover the full frequency range perceived by the human ear , but this was the first of many such false claims . |
| 10 | A better film than Midnight Cowboy , which similarly pits a Westerner against the Big Apple , this was the first of Eastwood 's films with Don Siegel , the second of Unforgiven 's dedicatees , and is a transitional film between Eastwood 's cowboy roles and his later cop pictures , which reached an early climax with Siegel 's Dirty Harry . |
| 11 | This was the first of two planned sales from the Korthaus collection , which was formed mainly during the 1960s by one of the German industrialists active in the field during the post-war period . |
| 12 | This was the first of many hints by which the reader would come to understand , before Rassendyll himself , how deep and important the difference in character was by contrast with the ‘ striking , salient , wonderful ’ physical likeness . |
| 13 | This was the first of many long sieges which were to be characteristic of the war . |
| 14 | This was the first of several treaties concluded with the Western powers that year , known collectively as the Ansei Treaties , after the era during which they were concluded . |
| 15 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger had previously worked on original scripts ; this was the first of four novel adaptations , of which The Small Back Room ( 1949 ) , the only one in black and white , was paradoxically the best , though they were the supreme colour artists of British cinema in the 1940s and '50s . |
| 16 | This was the first of a series of overseas crusades : Australia and New Zealand ( 1876–8 ) , America ( 1884 ) , the Cape Colony ( 1886 ) , and Australia ( 1886–8 ) . |
| 17 | This was the first of many walks from Creeting St Mary to Stonham . |
| 18 | This was the first of three IPCC reports being prepared for the UN environment conference to be held in Geneva in November 1990 . |
| 19 | This was the first of many palatial properties occupied by Franco over the next forty years — a tendency which is difficult to reconcile with his hagiographers ' insistence that he was a man of austere tastes and habits . |
| 20 | This was the first of development of houses |
| 21 | This was the first of the famous ’ tiger squadrons ’ — an association of airforce squadrons throughoput NATO powers — the newest recruit is a base in the new Czech republic — formerly regarded as the enemy . |
| 22 | One campaigner said this was the first in a series of activities to support the coal industry . |
| 23 | This was the second of the two main developments in the emancipation process which took place in 1856 . |
| 24 | THIS was the highest of high-tech election nights . |
| 25 | It was n't possible to have a conversation unless her earphones were connected , but this was the least of her worries at the moment . |
| 26 | On Jan. 7 , 1989 , Saudi Aramco announced the discovery of a new high quality oil and gas field at al-Ragheeb , 123 km south-east of Riyadh ; this was the third in recent months , and it raised expectations that the three wells were part of a single huge field , which , if proven , would increase Saudi Arabia 's existing reserves by 10 per cent . |
| 27 | This was the latest in date from Viola to Walter . |
| 28 | This was the latest in a series of drugs hauls in Co Cork . |
| 29 | This was the latest in a series of corruption cases involving Arizona . |
| 30 | This was the happiest of all my years on the island . |