Example sentences of "this was [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The direct result of this was that government institutions , especially the bureaucratic side of government , were comparatively undeveloped ; and to those precociously centralized kingdoms , England and France — and therefore , of course , to those who influenced Mary — Scotland appeared backward and less controlled . |
| 2 | This was that pension funds , like life insurance companies , were too willing to invest in overseas companies , by implication ‘ starving ’ British industry of capital . |
| 3 | The long ridge to their left looked particularly bleak and lifeless , the heavy clay sitting solidly in the ridges where the plough had left it months before , no trace of last year 's crop , nothing to indicate that this was good cereal country . |
| 4 | Long before there was the clatter of rotor blades above PE , a major base could be found on the southern edge of the airfield , this was 42 Air School ( AS ) , established at south End , in 1940 , and opened ‘ for business ’ in April 1940 as part of the joint Air Training Scheme . |
| 5 | The ‘ Family ’ single ( featured on ‘ Rebirth Of Cool Too ’ ) confirmed excited whispers : this was great soul music . |
| 6 | Somebody made some suggestion that this was prime development land . |
| 7 | THIS was Black Wednesday madness yesterday as City ‘ bookies ’ gambling on Britain 's future went on an orgy of selling in an atmosphere of raw aggression . |
| 8 | Mr James claimed that this was unlawful sex discrimination and his case went all the way to the House of Lords . |
| 9 | This was cheap city housing , and cars like that could only mean one thing . |
| 10 | Toyne 's study showed that one-third of his survey group expected to leave the region within the next 10 years , and the main motive for this was better career prospects . |
| 11 | The key to this was developing attitude scales , many of them named after the researchers who devised them . |
| 12 | This was former Fleet Air Arm FB.11 WJ244 once with the Historic Aircraft Museum at Southend , but never restored . |
| 13 | This was standard dockland charges . |
| 14 | This was deep sea fishing at its best . |
| 15 | So , for example , when the head teacher of a school refused to allow a Sikh boy to school because the boy wore a turban in contravention of the school rules on uniformity of dress , this was unjustifiable race discrimination . |
| 16 | Whether Darrel McHargue would have won on Commanche Run is irrelevant , for this was vintage Lester Piggott — the jockey completely at one with his horse , pushing it just enough to achieve maximum effort but always keeping it balanced , willing and galloping straight for the line . |
| 17 | This was 12 minutes Mitchell to Maskell . |
| 18 | This was wild mountain scenery , the sparsely covered valley floor overhung by vast ochre-coloured crags , and Maggie shuddered at the thought of being stranded here . |
| 19 | This was leafy north Oxford , this was the pace of security . |
| 20 | ‘ After his pneumonia had been diagnosed by the Senior Surgical Officer the diagnosis was confirmed at Mr Leland 's request by the Senior Medical Officer , ’ Sister added , then broke off to explain to the night junior , a second-year , that this was routine hospital etiquette when a surgical patient produced a medical complaint , or vice versa . |