Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Artur Sommerfeld , the professor of theoretical physics , was aghast at this fate for a young man whose brilliance was already apparent . |
| 2 | It was due to this second helping that he rejected the quail and mutton cutlets ( with pickled walnuts ) as Alice and Algernon , with a somewhat nervous eye on Lord Beddington , offered them . |
| 3 | I felt I was right but my stock was low on this establishment . |
| 4 | Yamamoto 's plan , Operation Z was complete by this stage and relied heavily on the fact that Hawaii is over 2,000 miles away from mainland America and any assistance would be slow to arrive . |
| 5 | Yet he felt more relaxed and confident than was usual at this stage and he could n't help asking himself why . |
| 6 | beeney was solid in this respect … one of the best kicks from a back pass youll see … this gives the defence confidence and that option . |
| 7 | The appeasement myth was right in this respect : Halifax would have been a disaster for Britain . |
| 8 | He hoped that he was right in this belief . |
| 9 | The gloom apparent among publishers when President Menem made his appearance to open the book fair was understandable against this background . |
| 10 | It was possible at this time to cross the harbour by stepping from one boat to another , so closely were they moored . |
| 11 | To mark the launch of SuperCalc 5.5 she has prepared a 16-page booklet covering all its new features in more depth than was possible in this article and this is available FREE to readers of Practical PC . |
| 12 | There was little in this performance , with Stephen Kovacevich as soloist , for anyone to recall pleasurably . |
| 13 | He was used to this sort of thing , he drives a big motorbike . |
| 14 | ‘ At first I was upset by this development , ’ said one official , ‘ but then I realised that with so many places selling the same things either they would go bust or they would have to channel their efforts into other , more necessary things . ’ |
| 15 | We felt that the use of median survival as an outcome was unsuitable in this meta-analysis since this effect-size approach , although suitable for quantitative outcomes , would not have given reliable pooled results . |
| 16 | Anxiety about trade-union power was rife at this period , as the personal attacks on Jack Jones indicated . |
| 17 | We know that speculation was rife in this period , for example in currencies , gold and real estate , and a number of highly publicized incidents took place in commodities markets . |
| 18 | Freud was guilty of this reductionism . |
| 19 | He was guilty of this offence when he used the car for his own purposes the following day . |
| 20 | What kind of talk was that from this man ? |
| 21 | Headache and tiredness were more common presenting complaints in patients with a large tumour , although thyroid and adrenal function was normal in this group . |
| 22 | It was easier for this head to talk about methods of producing unity than about the ideals behind it . |
| 23 | We were told in terms that it was a veritable tyranny — Scotland was colonised by vultures and no roof beam in Scotland was free from this plague . |
| 24 | Rhonda was superfluous to this scene , and had disappeared back to her dressing room . |
| 25 | Himes 1967 ) was foremost in this movement ( Fryer 1965 ) . |
| 26 | It was brave of this woman to bring a resentful and hostile stranger into the place that had been her home . |
| 27 | Hot from Nails 's two-up , two-down behind the bus-station , she was resentful of this softly-carpeted , oak-panelled entrance . |
| 28 | What was interesting in this study was that subjects ' eye movements showed that they looked longer and more frequently at syntactic errors even when they did not actually report the errors . |
| 29 | Because German opposition was light in this sector , and because the Germans thought that , after their bleeding at Verdun , they were incapable of massed attack , the French made some gains . |
| 30 | There was light in this place but there were shadows in the trees . |