Example sentences of "this was [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was Maria Luisa 's baby and now she understood it all . |
| 2 | Instead , they were faced with a statement from a Scotland Yard spokesman that there was no indication that this was terrorist activity , while the IRA had denied all involvement . |
| 3 | A notable beneficiary of this was Wilhelm Teudt ( 1860–1942 ) . |
| 4 | This was sandrat heaven . |
| 5 | Some of them looked as if they had only just risen from their beds , as if this was breakfast time to them ; others had the look of people who had n't slept for a week . |
| 6 | This was Alexander Noble of Fraserburgh , Scotland , a sailmaker by trade who also had two deaf-without-speech sisters . |
| 7 | This was Bishop Gray 's message to the 1992 Diocesan Assembly . |
| 8 | But this was Ray Shallows ' kingdom and it was hard to escape from his flood of ecstasy . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , this was film work , actually — crowd work and that sort of thing . |
| 10 | ( This was Operation Calendar — KE ) |
| 11 | This was BBC Television , an off-shoot of the world-renowned and world-respected BBC Radio service that had so admirably lived up to its motto to ‘ educate , inform and entertain' the general public throughout the war . |
| 12 | In the ignorance stakes , this was Mount Everest . |
| 13 | All this was Señor Parnham 's idea and he will agree to almost anything I ask , as I am sure you know already . ’ |
| 14 | This was Musica Transalpina , compiled by Nicholas Yonge , a choirman of St. Paul 's , who had been accustomed to entertain his guests with the singing of ‘ Italian songs ’ from books ‘ yeerely sent me out of Italy and other places ’ . |
| 15 | It sounds as if this was Mark Twain 's experience : |
| 16 | But this was desert country and the Indians were usually dusty and unwashed . |
| 17 | This was Paul Bedford ( c .1792–1871 ) , a popular actor who excelled in low comedy and whom CD mentions by name in Sketches of Young Gentlemen . |
| 18 | And this was Dr Malan of Geneva ! ’ |
| 19 | This was Dr William Silverberg who , unlike many of his colleagues of the day , did not look upon alcoholism as a form of weakness . |
| 20 | She could feel the strong beat of his heart , the warmth of his body , smell the masculine scent of him , and still she was not frightened , for this was Dr Neil , was it not , and why should she be frightened of him ? |
| 21 | So , this was Dr Neil , so often referred to , thought Jared Tunstall , in his turn . |
| 22 | This was Dr Baltimore 's comment to the NIH : |
| 23 | The negative side of all this was ben Eliezer 's polemics against straight-faced , over-serious rabbinism ; against those whose understanding of God 's nature was austere and unfatherly ; those who , while seeking to elevate the Most High , merely put him out of touch with his own children ; debarred them from his welcoming presence by a system or learning that became ‘ frivolous ’ in its intensity : not that its perpetrators could be frivolous : black was their colour , even as severity was their posture — as becomes the frozen-in-soul . |
| 24 | This was Peter Prager 's experience : |
| 25 | He was studying to be a commercial artist and when he was in Mr Frampton 's art class ( this was Peter Frampton 's father ) in his later tears at Bromley tech , Frampton lectured the form on how he would not tolerate tapered trousers . ’ |
| 26 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 27 | So this was Mrs Danby . |
| 28 | This was telephone bingo . |
| 29 | At first John imagined that this was relief food on its way to a Commissariat depot , for it was guarded by a large body of troops , about eighty infantry and fifty cavalry as well as two field guns and their crews — half on one bank , half on the other . |
| 30 | This was Rudford Mill , a three-storey building with a two-storey loft and storehouse . |