Example sentences of "was [pron] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or 170 MN/m 2 which is round about the average for laboratory glassware , window panes , beer bottles and most of the other common forms of glass but was something between a fiftieth and a hundredth of what he reckoned it ought to be . |
| 2 | There was something in the last track of Sheer Event Shift about the Wizard King being crowned in a towering castle . |
| 3 | The excitement of delving into the unknown was mine for the first time that day . |
| 4 | Was it after the First World War ? |
| 5 | Neither was it within the second type of loss above , because the sellers were unaware of the buyers ' chance of obtaining those lucrative contracts . |
| 6 | If there was anyone in the twentieth century to resolve the dilemma , repeat the Beowulf -poet 's masterpiece of compromise , and preserve ‘ the permanent value of that pietas which treasures the memory of man 's struggles in the dark past , man fallen and not yet saved , disgraced but not dethroned ’ ( ‘ Monsters ’ , p. 266 ) , Tolkien must have thought it should be himself . |