Example sentences of "was [prep] this [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In passing , I would like to say how grateful I was for this friendly and sympathetic , as well as informative , advice from the Humanist Association . |
| 2 | Everything he had done was for this final purpose , " that I might dwell among them " ( Exodus 29:43–46 ) . |
| 3 | It was for this very reason that banks , prior to the 1970s , avoided such risky long-term lending and concentrated on short-term trade financing . |
| 4 | It was during this turbulent time that her bulimia nervosa , which would take nearly a decade to overcome , began . |
| 5 | Well there was between this particular Wesleyan Chapel and er in our street it was , as it 's practically opposite the u present union office . |
| 6 | It was of this golden apple that Virgil , most learned in heroic antiquities , made the golden bough Aeneas carries into the Inferno or Underworld . ’ |
| 7 | This time the wily Belgian was not on board and it was never proved that he was behind this particular incident . |
| 8 | What was behind this double game ? |
| 9 | It was against this uneasy background that independence was celebrated in a brief euphoria which all too soon evaporated . |
| 10 | It was against this densely-textured historical backdrop that I recently awaited the delivery of my own fax machine . |
| 11 | It was against this gloomy backdrop , and in the knowledge that disease resistance , disease severity and drug efficacy are contingent upon the immune response to the parasites concerned , that immunologists got together earlier this year to assess the state of play in understanding and tackling the disease . |
| 12 | It was against this uncertain political backdrop that the cycle of relaxation and repression in political and intellectual life began again . |
| 13 | It was against this troubled background that Truman presented his 21-point programme to Congress in September 1945 — the programme later known as the Fair Deal . |
| 14 | She wished her father was like this young man who sat in his own shrine on a country kitchen dresser amongst used OHMS envelopes and sprigs of dried white heather . |
| 15 | and I was like this driving along the road . |
| 16 | In September Leslie 's 5th Brigade found itself part of the 4th Indian Division , and it was with this famous fighting force that he was to spend about the next nine months . |
| 17 | I was standing with him , you know , and two mates were there with their birds and I could n't because I was with this wee guy of 12 , watching him , and those fourteen guys got round me and wanted to fight with me . |
| 18 | It was with this old — and , to my mind , unresolved — dispute at the back of my mind that I came to write ‘ Hylas Fights Back ’ . |
| 19 | It was into this unresolved but not unsatisfactorily balanced situation that film was introduced , and was immediately identified as something new . |
| 20 | It was into this quiet atmosphere of cigarette smoke and casual conversation that the sudden crackle of Foster 's radio transmission sounded . |
| 21 | It was into this carefree atmosphere , where hard work and a loving family impose their own disciplines , that the W children came . |
| 22 | Oh well that would be the er I was a member of the er I was a member of the trades union whilst I was in this private distribution . |
| 23 | It was in this early training ground that Britain discovered its propensity for colonization and love of Empire . |
| 24 | It was in this general context that the Unionist attitude to Marconi was set . |
| 25 | It was while he was in this low state , and working hard to complete The Magic Flute , under Schikaneder 's constant pressure , that another disquieting commission arrived . |
| 26 | A passing labourer directed her , and it was in this anxious , preoccupied state of mind that she made her first appearance in Overclyst . |
| 27 | It was in this late period , between 1380 and 1200 BC , that the cave cult really came into its own , acting as a night-safe for the whole fund of Minoan religious beliefs . |
| 28 | Paradoxically , it was in this administrative vacuum that many members of the Colonial Service felt they had come into their own . |
| 29 | It was in this major area of economic policy that early on the civil administration exercised a high degree of autonomy even from the totalitarian party . |
| 30 | It was in this splendid fifteenth-century monument to the high architectural taste of the Catholic sovereigns that I read a message written by a fifteenth-century schoolboy on his classroom wall : Aquí supo lo que es bueno , y lo que es malo , / Lo que es dulce , y lo que es amaro ( Here I had knowledge of what is good , and of what is bad , / Of what is sweet , and of what is bitter ) . |