Example sentences of "[det] [adj] was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This latter was used to good effect by the hard-up Gordon Comstock in Keep the Aspidistra Flying ; he would go to a party with a single cigarette in a packet and get free smokes all night long on the strength of it . ) |
| 2 | This last was expressed in other words as willingness ‘ to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 3 | This last was spoken with Old Testament certitude . |
| 4 | Similarly in a case involving a French corporation , an order for depositions and document production at the offices of New York attorneys was not regarded as in conflict with the Convention ; all that was to happen on French soil was ‘ certain acts preparatory to the giving of evidence ’ , the selection of appropriate employees to travel to New York and of relevant documents to be disclosed in New York . |
| 5 | All that was left of human expression . |
| 6 | All this was done with great success and without any suspicions being aroused . |
| 7 | His own aesthetic was based on Viennese art historian Alois Riegl 's idea of an absolute Kunstwollen , in which art , based on an inner vision , takes the place of religion . |