Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Words were everything and a quirky sense of observation added an extra ingredient . |
| 2 | And so the words turned back on themselves , phrases reappeared , seeming to confirm other phrases , merely repeating themselves , clicking into place with a semblance of logic which nicely disguised the truth that all these words were nothing but a glittering fabric which hovered above the ground , unwinding endlessly , slipping between the fingers , beguiling like a mirage , taking on whatever shape the conjuror wanted , and leading nowhere . |
| 3 | By comparison the Pahlavis were nothing . |
| 4 | It would seem fair to conclude that while for the bulk of the population Hitler 's image was no doubt related in an abstract fashion to finding a ‘ solution to the Jewish Question ’ , this was an issue which people either gave little thought to or deliberately turned their minds from , and that , correspondingly , Hitler 's public attacks on the Jews were something absorbed with little deliberation , forming no central part in explaining either the high peaks of his popularity or the collapse of the ‘ Führer myth ’ in the last years of the war . |
| 5 | The raw materials which the Marines used for their scrimshandering were none other than the mighty , ceramically strengthened finger bones — the metacarpals and phalanges — of Imperial Fists who had died in battle or , surviving to old age , been permitted honourable euthanasia . |
| 6 | Long hours of toil were nothing new , but the mills brought a discipline that at best was irksome and in many places was harsh . |
| 7 | He says that 's a when , he said I ca n't let June come to work he said I was he said first things that went through my mind were someone 's decided to finish , what 's gone off ? |
| 8 | If the fish did attack and he missed with his spear , Trent knew that his chances of getting out of the water in one piece were nil . |
| 9 | His eyes were nothing special , but he was fearsome . |
| 10 | We see this at the birth of the church where ‘ all the believers were together ’ , ‘ all the believers were one in heart and mind … . ’ , ‘ they shared everything they had … . ’ , ‘ there were no needy persons among them … . ’ , ‘ and the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved ’ ( Acts 2:42–47 ; 4:32–35 ) . |
| 11 | Because their demands were nil , the Masai could be approached in a way which came close to the Colonial Service 's proclaimed ideal of disinterested benevolence . |
| 12 | Prisoners flexible enough to develop new goals also seem to cope better , even if those goals were something along the lines of becoming the world record holder for the number of consecutive push ups . |
| 13 | ‘ One or two people will be ready to put this down to plastic but our goals were nothing to do with plastic . |
| 14 | The natives were treacherous people , as everyone knew , ungodly and faithless , and their early shows of friendship were nothing but a ruse to lull the pioneers into a false feeling of security , so that they could ensnare them in their false enchantments , pounce on them unawares and kill them while they slept . |
| 15 | Baths were something which caused continual problems . |
| 16 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 17 | ‘ The Hell Fire Club were something of a social embarrassment at the time . |
| 18 | Yet if Miss Hill was unlucky not to get a medal , her disappointment was nothing compared to that felt by the American Lance Larson on a steaming hot night in Rome over 30 years ago . |
| 19 | Hill 's disappointment was nothing compared to that of the other leading British drivers . |
| 20 | Hence , provided the independent contractor was one who could reasonably be entrusted with such work and the hotelier did what he could to ensure that the work was done properly , the lift company as independent contractors will alone be liable . |
| 21 | The great egg race experiment was something to break into the Midlands , something to ask them to have opinions about puzzles , because there 's an awful lot of science in schools which precludes you from having an opinion . |
| 22 | His voice was soft , gentle , and he seemed relaxed , but the look in his eyes was anything but . |
| 23 | He probably thought a financial adviser was someone who told you to hand over the wallet or you 'd get your throat cut . |
| 24 | The number before radiotherapy was one to nine ( median two ) and after radiotherapy nil to 11 ( median three ) . |
| 25 | ( Counter-suggestibility was something else Waugh and Orwell had in common . ) |
| 26 | Well their itinerary was something like er January the first Cologne . |
| 27 | The fact that she and Liz had married two brothers was something that was much more likely to happen in fiction than in real life . |
| 28 | Mr Malik had been keen for it to ‘ bridge the gap between the musical traditions of East and West ’ , and the result was something that sounded suspiciously like the soundtrack from a commercial advertising Singapore Airlines . |
| 29 | Here , too , the Hammonds were concerned to dismiss suggestions that Luddism was anything more than a despairing form of industrial protest without any real degree of political revolutionary intent . |
| 30 | Oh great , I do n't know , Spring Hill was something |