Example sentences of "[adj] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Brora the date 1895 was on the station building . |
| 2 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ This was about the time The Beatles were just starting and they were considered to have long hair , but if you look at the pictures of them in those days , they had almost crew-cuts compared to David 's which was honestly long , bright yellow , bleached blonde from a bottle . |
| 3 | This was about the only use for insect repellent , as the mosquitoes seemed to have become hardened to the hundreds of tourists who had trekked through before us . |
| 4 | In 1901 one person in 20 was aged over 65 , by 1981 this was about 1 in 7 |
| 5 | This was about the only thing that ‘ Damnation Derek ’ got right ! |
| 6 | information about a particular piece , so , Simon and I sort of , we were talking kind of fairly casually about that , but erm , what we agreed to do is , this was about the time when we first got the equipment I think and it , it occurred to me that you , and I 've checked this now , that you can actually plug a cassette , you know , a Walkman type of player into either the microphone for the |
| 7 | This was about the year 1200 ( the charter is undated ) , but there is the fishpond today . |
| 8 | The council insisted on erecting another — this was about the time I arrived — and it got delivered in handy , fit-together sections . |
| 9 | He was the first big money(950,000) signning by Allan Clark , personally I think Clark just signed him because everybody else was spending absurd amounts money on crap , this was about the time malcolm allison was spending 1 to 2 million quid every other week on unknown bits of shit , so clarke thought lets join in . |
| 10 | This was about something else . |
| 11 | I really I was seeing her , because I was n't happy about the publicity , the way it had described audio description I did n't think it was good and Alex was unhappy about the way they were describing some language things , which cos they 're not doing erm , and we just went in and he just said right just , erm well I 've kept you some seats for a performance on the sixteenth of September , this was about the |
| 12 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 13 | The United goal never really looked in any great danger … this was about the only lapse … |
| 14 | But this was about sitting on horses not looking into other people 's eyes . |
| 15 | this was about last week 's episode ? |
| 16 | Pons says this was as a result of seeing his and Fleischmann 's work , whereas Jones insists that the DOE suggested it . |
| 17 | But this was as a result of no great advance in the technical skills available to the discipline , nor of any weight accorded to the profession in recognition of its claims , although the garden city lobby nationally and internationally was vociferous enough and attracted figures of influence . |
| 18 | Bishops were involved in other law suits , but more often than not this was as unofficial peacemakers , following the gospel injunction , rather than as official justices . |
| 19 | This was as an International Securities Self-Regulating Organisation ( ISSRO ) , and took the AIBD outside both the RIE and FSA-authorisation requirements . |
| 20 | ‘ This was at the church just down the road from here ? ’ |
| 21 | There is some evidence that it was Snowden who suggested the formula of the ‘ doctor 's mandate ’ , at a Cabinet meeting on 5 October , under which the component parts of the National Government were each to issue their own manifestos , with a separate personal appeal from the Prime Minister , According to Neville Chamberlain , ‘ Snowden … produced the suggestion that the Prime Minister should issue his own manifesto asking for a free hand [ i.e. on tariffs ] and the two Party leaders should each issue their own programmes and to our astonishment this was at once accepted by the Liberals , ' Amery , who perhaps got the information from Chamberlain , wrote in his diary on 6 October , ‘ Apparently when the deadlock seemed most complete Snowden suggested that the PM should issue his own manifesto , each of the other party leaders issuing theirs . ' |
| 22 | Lewis was subtle enough to see that this was at best a half-truth , and perhaps he was beginning to sense that what Tolkien 's friendship had to offer him was something rather more important than a regress to me nursery . |
| 23 | Turning to Europe , Mr Ridley said that the Government was pressing other EC countries to reduce their industrial subsidies , for this was at the heart of a genuine single market after 1992 . |
| 24 | This was at once a problem and a happy release . |
| 25 | ‘ This was at Chelsea Barracks ? ’ |
| 26 | Health authority staff , not unreasonably , felt that this was at the cost of forgoing routine casework support for a wide range of people ( horizontal efficiency ) and from their point of view , therefore , the developmental role of the CMHTs represented an unacceptable opportunity cost . |
| 27 | This was at a time when the rest of the world , following the American lead , was developing a clear preference for water-cooled designs . |
| 28 | Again at the minimum , £60 million of this accrued directly to central government through VAT and duty on petrol , liquor and cigarettes ( this was at a time when VAT was eight per cent , not the current fifteen per cent ) . |
| 29 | Overall these indicate that while the rate of victimization recorded in the annual surveys did increase in the 1970s and 1980s , this was at a substantially lower rate ( 1 per cent on average ) than the officially recorded crime-rate ( 3.5–5 per cent average annual increase ; cf. |
| 30 | This was at a time when prices were rising at 30–40 per cent per annum . |