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- 21-Mar-2011, 20:28 #1
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at or Chernobyl "It was set up because of the tragedy that was Chernobyl."
Should there be at Chernobyl?
- 21-Mar-2011, 22:13 #2
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Teacher Re: at or Chernobyl Here Chernobyl is seen as an event rather than a location.
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- 22-Mar-2011, 15:51 #3
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Teacher Re: at or Chernobyl 
The rather grandiloquent form of words 'the X that was/is Y' is quite common in a certain kind of journalism. It gives the sentence an aura of "poeticness" by allowing the writer to introduce a value-judgement and then assign something to it - e.g 'the minefield that is married life'.
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