Example sentences of "this [was/were] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was just one of several anxious comments about the changes which had occurred in population during the inter-war years . |
| 2 | Well , we deferred many difficult decisions , and this was just one of them . ’ |
| 3 | This was just one of the many problems in getting ashore . |
| 4 | And this was just one of a number of sites , known only to Halim and his team , where the early Chinese mariners had buried their dead together , as was their custom , with porcelain some of which had been fired in the imperial kilns of the Sung and Ming dynasties and dated back as far as the eleventh century . |
| 5 | She was curious as to where they were going , but so far Wayne had refused to say ; as far as she knew , this was just one of the Estate roads and it led nowhere . |
| 6 | This was just one of the many ways in which LASMO helped Mujadid while he was in London . |
| 7 | This was just one of the tips given at the class at the Bellinger Garage at Grove in Oxfordshire . |
| 8 | For the base Chaplain , this was just one of several funerals he 'll be presiding over during the next few days . |
| 9 | I have to admit that at this stage I was still wondering if this was just one of those gimmicky fashions that organizations , educational as well as industrial , go through occasionally . |
| 10 | There in the King 's sitting room the clerk noted ‘ a harpsichord by Handell in a walnut tree case ’ Clearly there are two scribal errors here the spelling of the composer 's name and the omission of a verb : these make it possible to argue ( if a little perversely ) that this was just another of those many instruments reputed to have been played by Handel . |
| 11 | This was notably true of his delay in sacking his Budget Director , Bert Lance , accused of bad banking practices in his pre-White House career . |
| 12 | This was also one of the main conclusions reached by Alan B. Shaw in his brilliant little book Time in Stratigraphy . |
| 13 | This was also necessary in order to obscure all traces of the original pencil drawing . |
| 14 | Usually again there was a department which controlled the internal administration of the ministry and its finances ; sometimes this was also involved in the appointment and promotion of diplomats . |
| 15 | This was also apparent in the family health services authority officers I met — I was impressed by their commitment , vision , and leadership qualities . |
| 16 | This was also true for oligonucleotide 3 . |
| 17 | The majority of Democrats in congress were opposed to Kemp-Roth , the Boll Weevils were not enthusiastic and this was also true of many traditional Republicans . |
| 18 | This was also true of lenient treatment , which was less common ( 13 per cent. ) and more randomly distributed across benches . |
| 19 | This was also true of the tragic Crowley expedition to the world 's third highest mountain , Kinchinjunga , in 1905 . |
| 20 | As seen in Chapter 3 , this was also true in the nineteenth century , despite lower clergy support particularly for the Fenian movement . |
| 21 | This was also true in respect to the regulation of homework , which followed the outcry about the sweated trades during the early twentieth century . |
| 22 | While this was also costly in staff time it was seen as a worthwhile investment . |
| 23 | This was even noticeable through the haze of the drug Leila had given her to superficially suppress such feelings . |
| 24 | Profiteering was morally unacceptable to most Everton shareholders ; this was even true of business men like Hartley , the jam-maker , and Hudson , The soap-manufacturer . |
| 25 | Of course , this was grossly disproportionate to their strength in terms of votes . |
| 26 | This was immediately prior to the Nicholson ‘ star ’ era ; the wave of which he rode the crest was beginning to build and it is interesting to chronicle for a moment some of the events leading up to his ‘ discovery ’ as a major Hollywood personality — a hero of the age and one who , as we have seen , was much influenced by the existentialist prophecies of Kerouac , which were now , finally , coming home to roost in middle-class America and elsewhere . |
| 27 | The concentration on wealth-generating activities rather than social programmes ; this was most apparent in the creation of enterprise zones . |
| 28 | This was most evident on the wide plains of the south-western United States and several parts of South America , where cattle multiplied virtually without human effort , herded by gauchos , llaneros , vaqueros and cowboys , and called loudly to all profit-minded citizens for means of converting it into money . |
| 29 | This was most evident in the fact that the provision banning sympathetic strike action in the 1927 Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act was never tested in the courts . |
| 30 | This was most evident in the two key-note speeches . |