Example sentences of "[conj] this [noun] [was/were] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or this time were you more worried than before ? ’ |
| 2 | If we had n't heard so much about him from Robert , we 'd find it impossible to imagine that this bloke was anything but the most upright of citizens . ’ |
| 3 | N F U and C LA could surely not have been oblivious of the fact that this shortage was one which farmers and landowners , in their role as councillors , had been responsible for creating . |
| 4 | I am sorry , James , that this man was your father . |
| 5 | But he 'd known , had n't he , that this trip was his last . |
| 6 | It would seem that this book was his constant companion and the title page of his copy of the eighth edition , published in the year of his death , 1768 , was inscribed ‘ The Gift of my old friend , the author ’ . |
| 7 | Much more could , and has , been written about his qualities , but little of this is relevant to his claim to be a martyr — and it should be remembered that this claim was his own and most successful invention . |
| 8 | Mrs Jones felt that this arrangement was itself disruptive and should be changed . |
| 9 | It was best , she decided , not to dwell on the thought that this evening was one she was not meant to see . |
| 10 | And this building was one that was allowed to deteriorate because of all this Victorian change . |
| 11 | And this fairy was it was found an eggshell . |
| 12 | Pope Paul was to speak to the United Nations on 4 October and this document was one he very much needed approved , at least in principle , before then . |
| 13 | Those pith-helmeted cavaliers who despatched rhinos with a single well-placed slug from an army pistol while the colonel 's daughter cowered behind the baobab had simple natures but not , if this ox was anything to go by , simple hearts . |
| 14 | If this scene was anything to go by , Kruger would have him in a cellar with the waters slowly rising . |
| 15 | If this guitar were mine , I 'd be tempted to experiment , probably starting with Seymour Duncan Alnico Pro IIs , and then maybe I 'd end up with a guitar that was a perfect cross between the JD and the Signature . |
| 16 | Fender Strat-style knobs would n't look out of place and , if this guitar were mine , I would change them straight away . |
| 17 | Gazing out into the blue , he asked himself if this assignment was his swan song . |
| 18 | If this stranger was who he claimed to be , he supposed he 'd better do as he was told . |
| 19 | Wayne knew how finicky she could be about place and mood , but this plan was one which had all objections beaten before they could even be raised . |
| 20 | It sighed and groaned and creaked so that sometimes it was easy to believe ghostly footsteps were padding about ; but this noise was something different from the usual spasmodic little creaks — it seemed regular and deliberate . |
| 21 | It is true that much was written about the moral upbringing of children during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; but this topic was itself clearly linked with the expectation of death , rather than with the hope of a balanced and integrated life . |
| 22 | But this woman was nothing like her . |
| 23 | Which was fine by her , because this man was her sworn enemy . |
| 24 | Consequently , prescriptive analysis was ambiguous : sustained export demand , not subject to stop/go was seen as the driving force yet dependent on improved competitiveness ; whether this improvement was itself dependent on export demand was never clearly specified . |
| 25 | Steve 's life was his own and as appalling as this situation was she was powerless to interfere anyway . |