Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [was/were] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My pitiful reward was usually a matter of pennies . |
| 2 | And erm I remember I was I was about fifteen now and my young brother was only a little tot about two I think three and I remember my father came in and he did he went straight for my mam for nothing at all . |
| 3 | And really her wrong shape was only a symptom . |
| 4 | She had a pleasing voice , and Morse guessed that her gushy manner was merely a cover for her nervousness . |
| 5 | The Staufen ideology , in which imperial election was purely a formality , is clearly stated . |
| 6 | It is agreed that potatoes originally came from the Andes , but , in the absence of any written language in ancient Peru , tracing their chronological development was often a question of conjecture . |
| 7 | The 42-year-old sports writer interviewed the Chelsea boss six weeks ago when their blossoming affair was still a secret . |
| 8 | Linda was not only Ms Duxbody 's editor , she was also one of the founders of Women 's Word and her short talk was consequently a mixture of congratulatory remarks about Revelations and a progress report on the company . |
| 9 | point out that this change in procedure will tend to equalize the associative statutes of the two contexts and suggest that the context-specificity they observed in their first experiment was solely a result of their failure to equalize the two contexts in this respect . |
| 10 | As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it . |
| 11 | Her thick hair was consequently a little disarranged ; it flamed against the light . |
| 12 | Their relative importance was partly a matter of administrative procedures , but perhaps even more of the personality and political connections of their respective holders . |
| 13 | Jessica Mathews of the World Resources Institute is pushing a ‘ sipper-guzzler ’ fuel-economy plan that would impose a levy on new cars whose fuel-consumption rate was below a set figure — say 27 miles to the gallon — and use the proceeds to offer rebates for cars above it . |
| 14 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 15 | His sole initiative was essentially a matter of housekeeping . |
| 16 | Although by now she had had twenty years in which to accustom herself to Bernard 's outbursts in private , and , in a curious way this display of his male aggression was also a powerful magnetic force for her , she was nonetheless acutely embarrassed by any public display of his temper . |
| 17 | His violent death was only a matter of course given the way he lived . |
| 18 | Leavis 's reputation as a crabbed stylist and boldly innovative thinker who had been rejected by a university where he spent his entire life was largely a figment of his own mind , and so much of his post-war life was devoted to mythologising his own career that it is difficult , by now , to recognise what a conventional figure in his place and day he always was . |
| 19 | Yesterday , however , his deadly spell was merely a generous layer of icing on the cake with Leicestershire looking already doomed to failure at 86 for five . |
| 20 | His first letter was just a simple out-of-season Valentine with his name and number on it to remind her . |
| 21 | And indeed Ungar found that his active component was neither a protein nor a nucleic acid but a peptide — a generic name given to a short sequence of linked amino acids anything up to fifteen or twenty units long and administered by injection , so avoiding the digestive barrier offered by the gut . |
| 22 | But our first win was certainly a long time coming . ’ |