Example sentences of "[adj] was [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Reason and conscience both told me that if I were ever to have any chance of escaping successfully this was that chance . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This was that pension funds , like life insurance companies , were too willing to invest in overseas companies , by implication ‘ starving ’ British industry of capital . |
| 8 | The problem with this was that neurotics flocked to him . |
| 9 | The thing about all this was that sales were beginning to meet his star image . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | All right , so she 'd used him a little , but this was all way out of proportion . |
| 13 | But this was all speculation . |
| 14 | This was All McDowell who became a close friend of mine , founded i-D magazine and coined the phrase ‘ Fuck Art : Let's Dance . ’ |
| 15 | In an aside to Charity , Charles asked if this was all part of the conspiracy . |
| 16 | This was all part of a romanticising process that has afflicted Pygmalion for more than half a century . |
| 17 | This was all part of a movement to prohibit the use of alcohol and the propagators began to be known as the prohibitionists . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Perhaps , he thought to himself , this was all part of a plot worked up by Dr Ali . |
| 20 | THIS was all part of what du Maurier referred to as ‘ Venetian ’ tendencies , lesbian tendencies . |
| 21 | This was all part of the the set up . |
| 22 | This was all illusion . |
| 23 | Well if you get the others out you 'll know that this was all bush was n't it here ? |
| 24 | Remember this was many years ago , so the magazine in question was a general craft magazine , not one especially written for machine knitting — those were very thin on the ground at that tine , in fact there was only one in this country . |
| 25 | This was many years ago now ab ten years ago I guess , so I went and saw and of course , erm Mr was dead and his son was running it and had sold his shares . |
| 26 | But but of course this was many years ago . |
| 27 | This was former Fleet Air Arm FB.11 WJ244 once with the Historic Aircraft Museum at Southend , but never restored . |
| 28 | Perhaps this was some kind of protection . |
| 29 | She was sure this was some trick of Zuleika 's to get her off-balance , slow down her reaction time . |
| 30 | This was some compensation for the fact that she was almost certainly no better at the piano . |