Example sentences of "[noun] were [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna kept on walking , aware that her two unwanted attendants were no more than a foot or so behind her . |
| 2 | By 2.00 though the pains were every one and a half minutes and I was only 2cms dilated. was sitting eating sandwiches and I was starving hungry . |
| 3 | It preferred , apparently , to revel blindly in its senses , as though life were no more than a rout of appetite and sensation rather than the dream of gold she sought to share . |
| 4 | Examples of peasant or pastoralist protest where official conservation policies were a catalytic or a leading grievance are Kenya ( Heyer et al. |
| 5 | as if history were no more than a dream . |
| 6 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
| 7 | Apart from one or two struggling and shrivelled survivors , the roses were no more than a memory . |
| 8 | It was as if she stood in a noisy limbo ; all the yesterdays had gone as if they had never been and all the tomorrows were no more than a tantalising promise . |
| 9 | But this confused political and economic independence , as if politics were no more than a reflex of economics . |