Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silly , crazy antics like this were all part of being young . |
| 2 | I 've often heard people say , ‘ You can always see someone worse off than yourself , ca n't you ? ’ as if this were any comfort ! |
| 3 | The shops were mostly dreary Woolworth-type places , and they were all shut , but there was a surprising number of people wandering around , as if this were some kind of marvellous place to take an evening stroll . |
| 4 | Letting the words flow over her Jezrael waited , standing loose , as though this were some jam dance session . |
| 5 | So high were these prison walls , indeed , that they left you wondering at the build of the common Italian criminal . |
| 6 | ‘ How old were these kids ? ’ |
| 7 | How old were these children Nelly ? |
| 8 | Rather different were those heads who avoided not only confrontation but also contact , taking refuge in their office and resorting to memoranda rather than face-to-face encounters . |
| 9 | Two men kissing to music under the stars … or Little David , the barman , would bring out his famous white gauze and feather fans and send them gliding across his sweating chest and face ( you do n't see this any more these days ) — as if the secret thoughts that were normally hidden behind that odd smile in his eyes had escaped and taken flight ; as if , I used to think , it was magic , as if some oddly attractive boy had unbuttoned his flies for you and brought out not a fat red cock but a blinking , blinded , delicate , fluttering magician 's dove , releasing it into the roof of the dark theatre to fly crazily over your astonished head … and above all this was that ceiling of shining stars . |
| 10 | Put in the baldest terms , one can say that the result of all this was that man — or , perhaps I should say , the hominid ancestors of modern man — became able to hunt and that , with the success of the hunting economy , came culture and civilization as we know it and with it its psychological corollary : the superego . |
| 11 | Reason and conscience both told me that if I were ever to have any chance of escaping successfully this was that chance . |
| 12 | One consequence of this was that work on toroidal systems — especially pinch systems in which the plasma carried a large current with evidently unpredictable properties — became relatively unfashionable . |
| 13 | The direct result of this was that government institutions , especially the bureaucratic side of government , were comparatively undeveloped ; and to those precociously centralized kingdoms , England and France — and therefore , of course , to those who influenced Mary — Scotland appeared backward and less controlled . |
| 14 | Looking back I realise that , if there ever was a moment when I might have quit , admitted defeat and abandoned the Cathedral to throw myself on the mercy of school , home or child guidance clinic , this was that moment . |
| 15 | This was that pension funds , like life insurance companies , were too willing to invest in overseas companies , by implication ‘ starving ’ British industry of capital . |
| 16 | The problem with this was that neurotics flocked to him . |
| 17 | The thing about all this was that sales were beginning to meet his star image . |
| 18 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 19 | This was all fantasy , of course , for one or two people had come , Evans or Owens from Hadleigh , the coypu man , a meter reader , the man who wanted to do the garden and whom he had turned away with a lie . |
| 20 | All right , so she 'd used him a little , but this was all way out of proportion . |
| 21 | But this was all speculation . |
| 22 | This was All McDowell who became a close friend of mine , founded i-D magazine and coined the phrase ‘ Fuck Art : Let's Dance . ’ |
| 23 | In an aside to Charity , Charles asked if this was all part of the conspiracy . |
| 24 | This was all part of a romanticising process that has afflicted Pygmalion for more than half a century . |
| 25 | This was all part of a movement to prohibit the use of alcohol and the propagators began to be known as the prohibitionists . |
| 26 | Whether this was all part of a single private house remains uncertain , because its location just inside one of the town 's principal entrances might suggest an official function . |
| 27 | Perhaps , he thought to himself , this was all part of a plot worked up by Dr Ali . |
| 28 | THIS was all part of what du Maurier referred to as ‘ Venetian ’ tendencies , lesbian tendencies . |
| 29 | This was all part of the the set up . |
| 30 | This was all illusion . |