Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the afternoons there was little to see other than the skateboarders who came to clatter back and forth in the bowl-shaped space under the Festival Hall , making a sound that was somewhere between a roller derby and a kendo match ; but as evening came on , bags and boxes would start to appear in the best-lighted spots under the concrete . |
| 2 | After all , the top of the table that was once on a line with our chin now reaches only to our thighs . |
| 3 | After cooking supper that was more like a banquet than an ordinary meal he played us some medieval things on the organ and then some Elizabethan things on the clavichord . |
| 4 | We also managed to get tins of the famous , unappreciated Spam and bully beef back from the looters and , knowing that the English liked strong tea , we boiled up more of their mixture for them , producing something of an indescribable colour that was more like a meal than a drink . |
| 5 | It is doubtful if the claim of the kings of Burgundy and Italy to bear the title emperor had more substance than the fact that they held the north of Italy and the chief routes over the Alps and were therefore in a position to put pressure on the pope . |
| 6 | Even more striking were the elephants that once lived on Malta , and were only about a metre in height . |
| 7 | In the heyday of Napoleon 's conquests he had access to fossils from all over Europe and was thus in a position to make the first comprehensive study . |
| 8 | Though he was questioned from time to time about radical plots and was even for a while held in the Tower , his claim to be moved now by conscience and not by political faction seems to have been accepted . |
| 9 | One nineteenth century account of him reads : ‘ Strong minded but very illiterate … he made all his calculations by the strength of his memory , and was equally at a loss to explain what he had conceived to any other person , and from being lowly educated he had no means of conveying to paper his designs , yet would cast up the most intricate accounts in his head without difficulty or error . ’ |
| 10 | Evidently he had been expecting Hazel to speak first and was somewhat at a loss . |
| 11 | Hitherto , the coalition had only had a one-seat majority in the Parliament as a whole and was actually in a minority in the lower house . |
| 12 | I had always been an erratic binge eater and was forever on a diet without losing weight due to bingeing/starving/vomiting . |
| 13 | N.W. the level had been driven 110 fathoms , and was almost to a sump sinking down from Taylor 's above . |
| 14 | The second big battle that Russell had in his unswerving pursuit of truth was with German idealism , mainly Hegelian idealism , which by a very curious aberration from the standard empiricism of the British people , took root in Oxford and Cambridge in the last half of the last century , and was almost for a time unchallenged . |
| 15 | Habibi was an impatient horse and was always in a hurry to do everything before she was even asked . |
| 16 | He grew up that day , and never again saw his father as a being who could do anything and was never at a loss . |
| 17 | For that matter , Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero , for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies . |
| 18 | Wellington 's riposte was that she had never been to South Africa , while he had and was therefore in a position to judge properly . |
| 19 | He was twenty years older than Raoul , and was more like a father than a brother . |
| 20 | He had a great sense of humour and was more like a teenager than a man nearing retirement . |
| 21 | With all the RAF stations in England for him to be sent to , he had actually been sent to Bourn and was there for a couple of months . |
| 22 | I went home sulking and was still in a mood when Frankie returned . |
| 23 | He was clutching his foot and was obviously in a lot of pain . |
| 24 | Bone-setters were regarded as witch doctors by orthodox Irish medical men , but were never without a clientele , human or animal . |
| 25 | hockey but was never in a team , no |
| 26 | And though we know also that in early periods , and especially and persistently in certain forms — drama , dance , choral song — production was not even in this manifest sense individual but was necessarily of a group kind , still the emphasis on ‘ the producer ’ , ‘ the author ’ , remains predominant , because it corresponds quite directly to the manifest conditions of production in writing and in print , and to certain oral forms which directly preceded them . |
| 27 | He said a clear example was the price of wheat which had increased four fold for the farmer but was now in a loaf of bread at ten times more in the shops . |