Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Briefly , she wondered if this were n't the sort of thing the Doctor was after , but decided to continue searching . |
| 2 | We have watched Eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have watched the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial instruments . |
| 3 | We have watched eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have heard the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial intruments . |
| 4 | Here I am not trying to give the impression that I am a Test Pilot as such , not in the way of Roly Beamont , or a host of other of my friends in this particular field ; this was just a question of an air test rather than a flight test . |
| 5 | Diane told herself that this was just a kind of paranoia on her part , an over-apprehension that came from reading too many doctor articles in women 's magazines , but it did n't make her any less uneasy . |
| 6 | This was just a continuation of the baseline . |
| 7 | er and I 'll be the first to recognize that and this was just a sort of the ball park stats that you were looking for . |
| 8 | ‘ Little did I know that this was just the tip of an Iceberg , frozen on chat shows , enlarged on British Telecom commercials and now floating treacherously towards me . |
| 9 | The report acknowledged , however , that this was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 10 | This was just the type of craft possessed by Jack Williamson , the percussion sideman with most of the CBR orchestras , and one Sunday he invited the Windrush crowd for a cruise up Howe Sound and Squamish Inlet to Bowen Island . |
| 11 | But for all Dwyer 's optimism , this was just the sort of loose game in which the Wallabies excel and , although they have undoubted talent , the youngsters are going to find things considerably tighter in France . |
| 12 | Earlier that morning Wexford had quoted Justice Shallow and now , as he contemplated Jolyon Vigo 's house , he thought that this was just the sort of place Shallow might have lived in . |
| 13 | This was just the sort of thing Henry wanted to read . |
| 14 | This was just the sort of attitude the paper wanted — in another context it would have been a good news story . |
| 15 | This was just the sort of thing — a secret service playing God — that usually had George registering y on the Richter Scale . |
| 16 | This was n't a reflection of his feelings about me , I knew that , and when pressed he would only say that the most resounding impression she gave was of her innate class . |
| 17 | This was n't a bunch of Hooray Henrys with more money than sense . |
| 18 | This was n't the type of conversation she particularly enjoyed . |
| 19 | This was n't the sound of young Scotland , this was trance-national , so they called themselves Havanna . |
| 20 | This was n't the sort of international work done in the European branch of security services , which is known as Section A. But it was glamorous enough to keep Dirk Coetzee happy for a while . |
| 21 | This was exactly the proportion of the tax in kind collected in the Roslavl' area up to November 1921 . |
| 22 | Richard was still not allowed to speak — he was not recovering quite so fast as had been expected — and he could make little reply when Laura told him that this was exactly the kind of thing she had expected all along , and that she would see about disposing of Lord Jim immediately . |
| 23 | This was exactly the kind of non-issue that Owen did n't want to get involved in . |
| 24 | Before I read the book , I thought this was exactly the opposite of the truth . |
| 25 | By some kind of irony this was exactly the reverse of the trouble with masonry cathedrals which fell down because they turned out to be in tension when the builders held that they were in compression . |
| 26 | Since this was also a period of great affluence , it can only be assumed that the wealthy customers who commissioned the Kamares cups — aristocrats and priestesses among them — could now afford cups of precious metal instead . |
| 27 | This was also a period of rapid industrialisation , and hence a period of high labour demand . |
| 28 | Figures 2.1 and 2.2 remind us that this was also an era of sporadic , but vicious , feuds between whites and what they saw as the invading blacks . |
| 29 | Nominated for nine Oscars , but this was also the year of West Side Story , which swept the board when it came to the statuettes . |
| 30 | This was also the decade of leisure ; sneakers were everywhere , sports shops blossomed and tennis star Bjorn Borg fused fashion and sport with his trend-setting striped headbands . |