Example sentences of "this [was/were] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By tacit consent both sisters behaved as if this were just like any ordinary Christmas , and they avoided discussions which might lead to the subject that was naturally uppermost in their minds . |
| 2 | Clubs such as this were rather like workshops with the old pros as time-served tradesmen who expected the young apprentices to clean their boots and learn their trade . |
| 3 | This would include the opportunity of subsidised housing and , if this were not to be made available immediately , then additional general welfare or family benefits would be made available to pay for accommodation as necessary . |
| 4 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 5 | This was just for her , and all she was doing was trying to help . |
| 6 | The the this was just at a just a custom you know . |
| 7 | But this was just during the strike ? |
| 8 | In this spirit I joined the Abortion Law Reform Association while still at school ; this was just before the passage of the 1967 Abortion Act . |
| 9 | We opposed various stages of the Bill , regretting the fact that it did not cover consumer safety ; but , on Third Reading , I committed our party at the Dispatch Box — this was just before an election — to honouring the existence of the Office of Fair Trading and the appointment of John Methven as director general . |
| 10 | This was just like real-life after all . |
| 11 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 12 | And this was just in the excavated part ; by extrapolation , the researchers conclude that the total sett consisted of about 880 metres of tunnels , with 124 open entrances . |
| 13 | This was just in the first half kids . |
| 14 | As the following table shows , this was well below the required numbers , as was the availability of places in foster homes and private lodgings . |
| 15 | This was well below the levels which had been necessary to meet the annual growth of demand before the War ( 712MW had been completed in 1938 ) , and also well below the level of around 1000MW a year which the CEB now considered necessary . |
| 16 | Suicide attempts ( ‘ Not that it was serious , ’ she told him , ‘ just attention-seeking ’ ) , anorexia , the odd abortion ( only one in her case , but she gave the impression this was well below average ) and messy affairs with married men . |
| 17 | This was well below our own dead slow speed so that we had to keep stopping , or steam in wide circles to hold our position astern . |
| 18 | Their husbands were away and they did n't know if they 'd come back or not and er , one girl er th this was n't at the , near where I used to live at . |
| 19 | as if this was n't at all what he 'd bargained for . |
| 20 | This was n't for want of trying . |
| 21 | This was n't for me . |
| 22 | ‘ I was convinced that this was n't worth releasing , ’ he said after accepting the Album of the Year award . |
| 23 | This was n't to be , although the gig was hardly lacking in mini disasters . |
| 24 | He felt fanatically encouraged that this was n't to be his horse . |
| 25 | But this was n't like the other times . |
| 26 | Before she 'd gone very far , she could see that this was n't like the fogs she knew . |
| 27 | This was n't like love at all , this was n't what she felt when they kissed , or when he put his mouth behind her ear , or rubbed his hands over her stomach , or when , alone in her own bed she had imagined he was there with her . |
| 28 | Well this was n't in the courts , counsellor . |
| 29 | This was n't in their script , actually having information volunteered . |
| 30 | Well that 's another easy one — in fact , though , this was n't in my mind . |