Example sentences of "was [det] [det] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And why it was that such a man should want to fight against the Seven . |
| 2 | His unspoken premise was that such a space for freedom would always continue to exist ; he saw Parliament and the courts as guardians of liberty . |
| 3 | And was that such a fault ? |
| 4 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
| 5 | The core of their problem was that such a device necessarily had to be a computer and a powerful one . |
| 6 | The monistic position , as we saw , was that such an idea , ii closely examined , does not make clear sense , because there can be no unequivocal criteria of numerical diversity . |
| 7 | Or was this all a mistake ? |
| 8 | ‘ Poor Daddy , it was all such a bore , ’ she said , turning the pages over hurriedly . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , ’ said Sally-Anne , wiping her mouth with her napkin , ‘ it was all such a surprise , the evening started out so well . |
| 10 | The thing that annoyed him most was that this was all such a waste of time when there was work to do . |