Example sentences of "were [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an indication of how low Kylie 's emotional defences were during this crisis that — just for once — the intensely personal details of her life suddenly came gushing out , as if to exorcise some spirit that was within her . |
| 2 | There was one long corridor and all the classrooms were were off this corridor you see , I I should think there 'd be er five , five classrooms , it was it was no sixth form . |
| 3 | When in the same issue the journal reviewed Why Men Forget we are reminded of just how many social melodramas there were for this film showed a Socialist spokesman being discharged from a factory and ‘ denouncing wealth in no uncertain terms ’ before inheriting wealth and marrying a society girl and finally deciding to return to the poor folk from whence he came . |
| 4 | Mark , did your letter say how many tickets there were for this game ? |
| 5 | In our sample , 70% were of this size . |
| 6 | Most disputes were of this kind , involving traditional sources of conflict : land and water rights or personal injury . |
| 7 | An important part of parliament 's business concerned affairs of state : decisions about royal marriages , war and trade were of this kind . |
| 8 | The only two recorded and monitored giant earthquakes in history were of this type — in Ecuador in 1906 and Japan in 1933 . |
| 9 | But in Nottingham in 1840 7,000–8,000 of the 11,000 houses were of this type ( see Burnett 1986 ) . |
| 10 | The three-bedroomed cottage was certainly rare in Dorothea 's time , but by the close of Queen Victoria 's reign the majority of those new-built were of this type . |
| 11 | Moderator we , we do accept this but maybe I could er say just a word to the assembly about the workload as it were of this panel on doctrine . |
| 12 | Their chief functions were of this world . |
| 13 | Until about five years ago most boats in general club use were of this sort . |
| 14 | Most of the difficulties with the financial category were of this nature , and consequently not within the power of the defined problem-owner for this situation . |
| 15 | Certainly many of the ordinary rank and file , like William Joyce in the early years , were of this nature ; and it seems significant that J. Havelock Wilson of the Seaman 's Union , a stalwart of working-class anti-socialist movements , spoke at an anti-Bolshevik meeting stewarded by 600 fascists at the Royal Albert Hall in 1926 ii |
| 16 | that feel a bit , caravans that we used to go to were like this chalet . |
| 17 | 59% of respondents were against this proposal , of whom 86% were sole practitioners . |
| 18 | Over half of the respondents were against this suggestion , with a little over one-third in favour . |
| 19 | Ninety ( 72% ) patients were over 70 , although only 14% of the population studied were above this age . |
| 20 | The attendees were mainly those responsible for the running of large office and retail complexes and several were surprised to discover that Rentokil were into this sector as well . |
| 21 | If nothing other than the Process and Working Directories were under LIBRARY$DISK : [ LSLIVE ] , ( ie. none of the storage directories were under this root ) then you could use the simpler BACKUP command : |
| 22 | Large pieces of timber take some considerable time to come to equilibrium with the surrounding humidity and , because the English weather changes so often , there was generally no time to build up dangerous differences in swelling strains so that we had comparatively little trouble from this cause , so long as the aircraft were in this country . |
| 23 | It would be odd if a transaction were outside the section in all circumstances solely because it was governed by a foreign law even though , for instance , all the parties were in this country at all times . |
| 24 | Well , that you were in this afternoon . |
| 25 | I thought you were in this bit . |
| 26 | And the story goes , to cut it quite short , two workmen were in this person 's house laying carpet tiles in the lounge and they were using this substance that was heavier than air and it was also highly flammable . |
| 27 | So the chief basis of argument must be indirect : when the relations of production are as they were in this case , people will make history of this kind . |
| 28 | The statues of Athena and Zeus respectively at Athens and Olympia by the sculptor Phidias carried forward the tradition , but the figures in which flesh was rendered in ivory and hair and garments in beaten gold were in this case around forty feet high . |
| 29 | Purporting to apply these principles in Coffin v. Smith , the court concluded that the police were in this case on duty ( since they were in uniform ) , and were doing nothing prima facie unlawful . |
| 30 | Where there are conflicting practices ( as there were in this case ) , negligence is not established by proving that the defendant has not followed one practice . |