Example sentences of "[subord] this [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this region was the nation 's first to identify the cause of smog and to make pioneering strides towards curbing air pollution , population growth keeps overwhelming its efforts . |
| 2 | Being a top sports person requires a certain amount of selfishness , so this mission was a wonderful opportunity to help other people for a change . |
| 3 | Once this building was a monastery . |
| 4 | If this stuff was a car it would now require an MOT . |
| 5 | Sounded as if this Thiercelin was a good man . |
| 6 | The walls were a collage of tens of thousands of reptile skulls carved in gloomy green jade and malachite , as if this place was a saurian necropolis . |
| 7 | Under the armpit of Scandinavia , Finland fits like a gusset ; and if this gusset was a piece of rotten calico then it would rip in the ragged shredded way that Finland has done . |
| 8 | Unless this Rose was a nurse . |
| 9 | It was because this undertaking was the equivalent of a court order and was fully enforceable by the court that he was convicted of the offence . |
| 10 | Indeed , since this trauma was the origin of all later stages of cultural evolution for the race as a whole and is now the culminating phase of childhood development , it is clear that on this phase more than any other the whole mental health and normality not only of the individual , but of the society , depends . |
| 11 | The robbers had certainly had a boy with them , they said , but whether this boy was the same boy … well , it seemed very doubtful . |
| 12 | The question therefore was whether this mortgage was a debenture . |
| 13 | I can not say whether this manifestation was a product of opium or not but ever after the most excruciating of my opium torments have regularly visited me with his likeness and the haunted corridors of my mind have resounded with his peculiar bombast . |
| 14 | Though this salary was the same as that of a third-class constable , the lowest police rank , village sergeants were much better off because they served in their own localities , were not subject to discipline , and had other income . |
| 15 | As this revision was a technically complex and specialised task , the team passed over agreed elements of this redevelopment work to the safety manager , giving assistance , where appropriate , to completely revising our existing policy documents . |
| 16 | For this room was the real thing : so much was unmistakable . |