Example sentences of "[det] [pron] was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that I was put with foster parents , staying with them in the country for about nine months . |
| 2 | Miss Henrietta 's death had seemed so much more terrible and yet when she ventured to say this she was met with blank looks . |
| 3 | This one was mutiliated on neighbouring property just 200 yards away . |
| 4 | ‘ This one was given for sheer hard work and physical labour . ’ |
| 5 | As with most booms , this one was based on proven results and justifiable prospects . |
| 6 | They were opposed by Anthony Cary , Lord Falkland , a Tory , who argued that the throne should not be filled until Parliament had decided what powers to give the Crown , so that " we may secure ourselves from Arbitrary Government " , although in this he was supported by radical Whigs such as Wildman . |
| 7 | The shifts of responsibility are sufficient to justify the claim that the education service being managed at the end of the twentieth century is different from that which was characterized by teacher-based choice , classroom autonomy , voluntary consensus and a supposedly new liberalism forty years earlier . |
| 8 | Though marginally better in quality than that provided for the black population , their education fell far short of that which was provided in privileged white schools . |
| 9 | Each one glowed with its own prismatic brilliance and each one was soaked in pure , living colour , in rainbow light , in fluid iridescence . |
| 10 | Harold Wilson probably underwent the most disagreeable experience of any Prime Minister in that it was regarded as respectable political tactics to traduce him on any grounds other than political . |