Example sentences of "[det] [adj] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Perhaps , she thought , that was what all this was to him . |
| 32 | All this was to be achieved by heading straight for Kuwait City and pinning down the Iraqis there ; and then by moving from the west in substantial force , enveloping and destroying Iraq 's elite reserve , the Republican Guard , with its T-72 tanks , described by French sources as ‘ the priority target . |
| 33 | However , on November 2nd , 1906 , all this was in the cloudy future , for at a meeting in the Town Hall a new possibility emerged , bluntly headlined in the Standard as ‘ Proposed Municipal Golf Links ’ . |
| 34 | The woman , who gave the name Bernadette , said from their home in Tulse Hill , south London : ‘ Before all this was in the papers John told me he had served Mr Lamont . |
| 35 | All this was in preparation for a proclamation by General Kawabe on 1 August 1943 declaring that Burma was independent , and was at war with Britain and the United States . |
| 36 | The computer 's place in all this was in the control of either the mechanical discs or strips that carried the images of each character or , later on , in the generation and display of the characters themselves on a CRT . |
| 37 | However , all this was in the future and hard to visualise on our first visit . |
| 38 | All this was before 1914 , but the Rent Act , 1915 concentrated the minds wonderfully : State intervention in the provision of working-class housing after the war became much more likely . |
| 39 | All this was by the way , however , except that it lent background and depth to the smile he gave Howard as he shook hands . |
| 40 | The only time he seemed to be bold and at all resolute was in contradicting Joe 's apparent errors . |
| 41 | That one was worth two hundred . |
| 42 | This is not to say that Aethelred was without rivals , among whom was one with apparently Deiran connections . |
| 43 | th the bit that I found most interesting was at least the Board are trying to look after our interests in that respect . |