Example sentences of "[det] [adj] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This latter was in fact the fee farm of the borough , which had come to be permanently assigned to the earls of Salisbury , whose titles and possessions had been conferred on Margaret Pole , daughter of the duke of Clarence . |
| 2 | This one 's number seven and this one was in nineteen eighty eight . |
| 3 | Since this internegative was at the same stage as Yuricich 's dupe , two generations of film had been skipped to produce a higher quality shot in which the join is much harder to detect . |
| 4 | In Sylvia 's Lovers , Mrs Gaskell emphasizes this well-kept hearth , ‘ of the same spotless whiteness as the steps ; all that was black about the grate was polished to the utmost extent ; all that was of brass , like the handle of the oven , was burnished bright ’ . |
| 5 | Now we find all that was to no avail , since nine times out of ten local authorities have pushed all thought aside of giving the relief . ’ |
| 6 | All that was for the future . |
| 7 | There was a little shop in my home town that I had liked very much , selling old bits and pieces , books and engravings ; all that was for sale was in a jumble , and the windows had not been cleaned in years . |
| 8 | We had a miserable week afterwards for all that was on the radio was martial music of the Death March kind . |
| 9 | So it meant that by the end of the war , the railway stock , the carriages , locomotives and all that was on their last stages . |
| 10 | And all that was on it . |
| 11 | The danger , of course , was that the new schools would be little more than half-hearted extensions of the former senior elementary schools — by 1938 , 63.3 per cent of pupils beyond the age of eleven were in separate senior elementary schools and all that was at first formally required was that such schools should change their labels . |
| 12 | Despite the widespread incorporation of the systems approach into branches of physical geography and its increasing use as a framework for textbook structures , some disillusionment has occurred , possibly because the systems approach did not immediately offer all that was at first hoped . |
| 13 | Harrison kept intent on the gentleman but still he noted the two boats on the lake — one had caught what must be a pike from the struggle — heard the chiming axes of the woodmen , noted the flocks on the Scale Force bank of Crummock and , more particularly , a pair of swallows playing beside the water — these and a score of other impressions gave him a richness of context denied Hope who , after struggling with his pipe , battled on , oblivious of all that was about him , to confirm and exercise his new and gloriously liberated Christianity . |
| 14 | If Let Us Compare Mytholoqies marks the awakening of his poetic consciousness when the city of Montreal ( and all that was in it , not excluding its female charms ) ‘ began to jump at me , ’ The Spice-Box Of Earth marks the heightening of his Jewish consciousness which he encountered in young adulthood , as a free agent abroad in the world , having to establish his own identity at a time when his own Tradition , and his position in it , began likewise to jump at him . |
| 15 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 16 | All that was in my mind was to abort this mission . |
| 17 | All that was in essence known to HQ 5 Corps was that the greater number of these people were " Cossacks " or " Russians " making up various units who had found themselves in Austria because to a greater or lesser extent they had been associated with the Germans , and had surrendered to the British in the hope that they might thus avoid falling into the hands of the Communists . |
| 18 | All that was in her face , too . |
| 19 | Leith erupted , and hated Naylor Massingham with all that was in her — him and his offensive questions ! |
| 20 | Well we always do , I mean if you 'd use all that was in that cupboard you 'd have half a dozen jumpers |
| 21 | All that was before Baggio 's Five Greatest September Days . |
| 22 | She would so like to speak to him of all that was inside her . |
| 23 | But all that was behind them now . |
| 24 | All this was above board and the developers reached an agreement to pay a per acre developed contribution to the district council towards development costs , as did the county council . |
| 25 | All this was for the saving of me . |
| 26 | ‘ All this was for me , you know ! ’ |
| 27 | All this was on pain of a £20 fine and , in respect of the contracts , dismissal from office ; the directors were made to take an oath on assuming office ( but Quakers were allowed to affirm ) . |
| 28 | The point of all this was of course to reinforce the belief that the after-life was a paradise , even if only achievable with certainty through death in battle , and thus to improve the combativeness of the assassins . |
| 29 | At the same time , the curriculum through which all this was to be achieved remained remarkably unexplored and neglected ; and in many respects this in itself was a comment on the nature of the reformers ' aims and aspirations . |
| 30 | A theoretical stress upon biblical study , an active laity , the reunion of Christians , and a positive commitment to the service of the world in its cultural , social and economic needs , coupled with an absence of guidance as to how all this was to be done and how far one could go in these various directions , led both to a state of real popular enthusiasm but also , almost inevitably , to tension and conflict . |