Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aha that was just went in It was all blown to the side and that was it was kept just for the for the carol beasts for the sheds you see , for the that was what the what we saw what they bedded them down with that . |
| 2 | As the thirties was our last great depression it commands comparison with the great depression of the eighties . |
| 3 | They could not easily have found any other body with which they could compare themselves , and in any case the House of Commons of the 1620s was itself not very important . |
| 4 | It occasionally spent a whole day on ‘ policy review ’ discussions , and by the end of the 1970s was itself devolving more discussion to the individual operational units . |
| 5 | Which of the two was it ? |
| 6 | The judges responded by saying that the ‘ purpose ’ of the accused was something which could be defined objectively . |
| 7 | Their relevance to Worcester itself , and to the Worcestershire towns of the 1980s was something which would have to be learned from experience . |
| 8 | The excitement of delving into the unknown was mine for the first time that day . |
| 9 | One product of Crowe 's earlier connection with Buckingham in the 1620s was his spectacular marriage into the duchess 's family : to Mary , daughter of Sir George Manners and sister of John Manners , later eighth Earl of Rutland [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | The first vat burst open , the water in the second boiled , and only in the third was his temper restored to normality . |
| 11 | They were noticed in 1926 , but only following aerial photography in the 1930s was their extent recognized . |
| 12 | ‘ That shot I hit into the water at the 11th was my mistake and mine alone . ’ |