Example sentences of "this [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to regret its disappearance and looked at the chalk outline marked by Massingham on the floor as if this were a poor substitute for the real thing . |
| 2 | If this were a simple conflict between attack and escape , it would have led to threat displays . |
| 3 | If this were a simple and one-way movement , the answer would lie in ensuring that the record of achievement is up to date and intelligible , that assessment records are accurate and that the pastoral record , if any , is both just and constructive . |
| 4 | If this were a serious move to protect the environment from fuel pollution , then the Government would have been rather more convincing were it to use the new VAT revenue for a national programme of home insulation . |
| 5 | He came forward from behind his desk and held out his hand as if this were a first meeting . |
| 6 | How , if this were a complete picture of the League 's activities , did it survive at all ? |
| 7 | No , no , not that one , Doug , this were a big woman , were n't she ? |
| 8 | The seaman — Gustave continued as if this were the best story he had heard for many years — apparently claimed that he had no notion of how the section of mast had reached the position in which it was found . |
| 9 | The three best known examples of this were the sacred bulls : Apis , herald of Ptah at Memphis ; Mnevis , herald of Re at Heliopolis ; and Buchis , herald of Monthu at Armant . |
| 10 | After a while the whistle is repeated — by the same blackbird or by its mate — but always as if this were the first time it had occurred to him to whistle ; if this is a dialogue , each remark is uttered after long reflection . |
| 11 | He glanced at her , wondering if this were the first she had heard of the proposal . |
| 12 | She had clearly been a very good-looking woman when younger , and even now was handsome ; paradoxically , the artifices she employed to emphasise this were the very features to strike a false note . |
| 13 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 14 | If this were an isolated case , it might simply be put down to an individual health authority overreacting to public embarrassment . |
| 15 | This was no great problem for Mr Berge ; being cocky and confident comes naturally to him whether he is presiding over his other little empire , the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house , or standing over a gaping hole in credibility . |
| 16 | THIS was no great victory . |
| 17 | It was quite a drive and quite a list for when she got there , so she was unlikely to be back before the early evening ; but this was no great problem , because they 'd soon be closing the doors so that they could make a start on the next day 's preparations . |
| 18 | Vic goes down in football 's annals as the first international player to be chosen from the ranks of the 4th Division ( for Wales against Northern Ireland in Belfast on 22 April 1959 ) , but Palace fans should know that this was no freak selection , for Vic had impressed many with his splendid performances and was in a run of 143 consecutive League games with just a single absence for us . |
| 19 | This was no shabby , run-down Victorian house as we had expected , but a splendid stone-clad manor house with golden hamstone mullions , and a greenish roof of Cornish Delabole slate . |
| 20 | Long before he reached the edge of the wood he knew this was no mere cavalry raid . |
| 21 | This was no mere coincidence , for the oolitic limestone of the Cotswold Hills continues north-eastwards across Northamptonshire and Rutland and into Lincolnshire , taking in , on the way , Towcester hundred , which shows similar characteristics , and skirting the three hundreds of Buckingham , where people were marginally more prosperous than in the rest of north Buckinghamshire . |
| 22 | But however it happened , this was no mere " chance " — God was demonstrating his absolute control . |
| 23 | This was no mere cyclical event : it effected a permanent reduction in the relative economic importance of manufacturing , the male worker and the North . |
| 24 | This was no mere offer of assistance , she saw . |
| 25 | This was no mere poetic fantasy . |
| 26 | This was no new departure : Charles I had wanted a strong navy , though his reliance on unparliamentary taxation to pay for it had led to trouble ; the Republic had gone further afield than previous governments and had won some notable successes ; and Charles II and his brother James had tried to build up a strong navy without becoming too caught up by the House of Commons and its desire to control policy by controlling finance . |
| 27 | Circumcision : this was no new rite . |
| 28 | This was no new phenomenon . |
| 29 | There could be none of the early 1960s sit-downs , it was implicitly recognized , this was no passive Gandhi protest , the state had to be confronted . |
| 30 | This was no easy matter , it being a crumbly cheese — My mother however did it — I went into the garden for something or other , and in the mean time my Brother Frank minced my cheese , ‘ to disappoint the favorite ’ . |