Example sentences of "was [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime discontent with the Central Office — which was mostly an excuse for discontent with the leadership — continued to mount . |
| 2 | The marriage was mostly an accommodation of interests ; a convenience . |
| 3 | ‘ As I anticipated , ’ the Prince said , ‘ there was rather an interesting row after I said all that . |
| 4 | The midwife said to me , ‘ This child has been on this earth before ’ and I thought that was rather an odd thing to say , but the midwife seemed quite adamant . |
| 5 | At first my mother had found it difficult to remember their name , which was rather an unusual one : ‘ Praise-my-soul-the-King-of-Heaven-to-His-feet-thy-TRIBUTE … |
| 6 | In reality , however , the tribe was rather an ‘ open ’ institution , its membership created more by shared political interests than by descent from a common ancestor . |
| 7 | Grandad went to work for a farmer who was rather an old skinflint . |
| 8 | It was rather an important event for me in those days , as you can imagine . |
| 9 | And so I decided that this was rather an unfair situation — why should n't women be able to do what a man did ? |
| 10 | The national loaf was rather an unappetizing grey colour I do n't know if anybody remember the national loaf . |
| 11 | He was rather an unambitious man as regards fame and position , being content to remain with the firm of Boulton & Watt until his death . |
| 12 | I should mention the — dear me — the fee , ’ he added , lowering his voice to a whisper , as if this was rather an impolite word . |
| 13 | But I 'm afraid it was rather an old photograph ; taken about ten years ago . |
| 14 | Supper was rather an odd meal . |
| 15 | It was rather an ex-Pharisee opponent of the gospel , converted through the direct agency of God and thrust out on the mission at the direct leading of the Lord the Spirit . |
| 16 | I can appreciate Edouard would rather have me wasting my time at the museum instead of going round to his flat and trying to persuade Barbara Coleman to leave , but sending someone to kill me was rather an over-reaction . ’ |
| 17 | He was rather an untidy man really . |
| 18 | ‘ Hereward was rather an oddity , ’ he said apologetically . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , there was rather an inferno blazing on top of that cake , was n't there ? ’ |
| 20 | I would have thought this was rather an enlightening view to take , but Semites erm , but there we are . |
| 21 | Viewed entirely from a technical standpoint , this was rather an unfair struggle . |
| 22 | They did n't have a lot of time on it and it was effectively an engineer/producer , rather than a producer . |
| 23 | He refused to make his approaches at Nagasaki , a customary means of diverting troublesome foreigners , and presented the Japanese with what was effectively an ultimatum , demanding that some agreement be reached to cover the provisioning of US ships , the treatment of shipwrecked American sailors and the development of formal relations . |
| 24 | Yet all this frankness was fundamentally an act : to fill the silence that she feared in others , to ward off the invisibility she feared in herself . |
| 25 | The right to that appointment was presumably an established perquisite of the chief steward . |
| 26 | The right to that appointment was presumably an established perquisite of the chief steward . |
| 27 | It was furthermore an exercise in gaining experience in measurements with grass samples , to assist in spotting unforeseen problems . |
| 28 | He has been compared to Freud , Whitman and Wordsworth , although the late John Cheever , in one of his more paranoid outbursts , suggested that he was merely an invention of the New Yorker . |
| 29 | A consequence of this decision could have been the creation of evidence that the project was merely an exercise in ‘ façadism ’ — the policy of retaining only the external skin of a building as a ‘ screen wall ’ to new accommodation , which often creates a disagreeable distinction between the ‘ stage set ’ of the preserved shell and the entirely rebuilt interior . |
| 30 | I know that the ‘ black baby ’ campaign was merely an attempt at fund-raising , but when one realizes that this implies that black children were ‘ for sale ’ one can see that this term would be deeply offensive to black Catholics and others . |