Example sentences of "this [was/were] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was about the only use for insect repellent , as the mosquitoes seemed to have become hardened to the hundreds of tourists who had trekked through before us . |
| 2 | This was about the only thing that ‘ Damnation Derek ’ got right ! |
| 3 | The United goal never really looked in any great danger … this was about the only lapse … |
| 4 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 5 | This was as an International Securities Self-Regulating Organisation ( ISSRO ) , and took the AIBD outside both the RIE and FSA-authorisation requirements . |
| 6 | It won , it won the best kit car and this was at the national show so you imagine how good this thing was . |
| 7 | This was over a 5,500 mile course . |
| 8 | Yes , I would have thought this was worth a hundred only . ’ |
| 9 | This was during the mid 1980 's and the group was of moderate size and the productions were of a moderate standard also . |
| 10 | This was during the mid thirties ? |
| 11 | This was despite a strong sense that the man was unduly anxious about the outcome of his overture : anxiety is a great destroyer of response , and Frederica had no taste for being closed in a sleeping compartment with a worried man . |
| 12 | This was despite a brave effort from all the Derry stalwarts like Liam O'Donnell , Peter Smyth , Barry Goodman , Aidan Tighe , Paddy Duffy , Philip Coll and Robert Cooper . |
| 13 | This was for a toroidal magnetic confinement system ( see figure ) with a circulating current of electrons pinched in by the magnetic field generated by the current . |
| 14 | This was for a short time only ; I had suffered a significant loss , but not a life-threatening or total one . |
| 15 | Dad did n't speak to Mum on the phone , and he did n't see her , knowing that this was for the best in the long run . |
| 16 | Glass accepts this was for the best . |
| 17 | No doubt this was for the good practical reason that as royal taxation became more frequent separate and additional councils for the church 's own business became more inconvenient : there was a limit to the number of times the clergy could be summoned from their parishes and livings to provincial assemblies in London or elsewhere . |
| 18 | This was for the specialised early potato market . |
| 19 | This was to the fundamental and long-term detriment of the financial base of the College . |
| 20 | This was of a different order from my imaginings about the Chinese communists , arch villains whose evil doings were retailed to us in the classroom with the same ferocious didacticism that accompanies the telling of a lurid fairy tale and enhances its horrifying fascination . |
| 21 | This was of the first importance to him . |
| 22 | Page references have been included in this file as , a/though pub have covered indexes in their information skills course , this was of the first occasions when they were asked to take much of responsibility for their own project . |
| 23 | Snappy , short news sequences certainly helped promote some of the big names but this was on a small scale in comparison with the United States where a few outstanding sportsmen became Hollywood stars . |
| 24 | This was on the last day of an exhausting eleven-month shoot tracking down the healers , mystics and wise men of the islands . |
| 25 | There was decline in primary industries with a 70% fall in employment , but this was from a small initial base . |
| 26 | Naturally this was like a red rag to a bull and I refused to even consider such a course of action . |
| 27 | This was like a bad dream coming true . |
| 28 | This was after the 4472 hauled special , and may have been the final working into Hyde 's . |
| 29 | This was before the actual move . |
| 30 | This was before the 1988 Licensing Act which brought all-day opening . |