Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet leaders were interested only in a kind of ‘ non-alignment ’ for Afghanistan comparable with that of the radical pro-Soviet members of the Non-Aligned Movement ; they did not hanker for Afghan neutralism of the pre-1973 variant . |
| 2 | When at last we were all safely in a carriage , he would saunter off to buy a paper , and other people were coming in . |
| 3 | The manners which Topaz had been taught at the convent were good enough as a basis for acceptable behaviour , but she soon discovered that she had a great deal more to learn , and would also have to adopt a whole new set of values . |
| 4 | Diderot 's standards were those primarily of a moralist , questioning how morality might be fashioned through painting , but he was sensitive to artistic aims ; his essay on painting was admired both by Goethe and Baudelaire . |
| 5 | It might be thought that such tenets were unambiguous enough in a democracy to be assured the most rigorous defence . |
| 6 | Since the strength of feeling by the Norfolk members Chairman only became really apparent in the last two dates and the wires of telephones were hot yesterday with a conversation between myself and others north of the border and since discussions we held yesterday with representatives of the Department of Transport in Bedford indicates a solution to suit all interests to make it achievable . |
| 7 | Another landing when they were close together for a moment , and then another descent . |
| 8 | He embalmed a child in 1717 so skilfully that he deceived Peter the Great , who thought the infant was alive yet in a state of normal repose . |
| 9 | On indictment a prison sentence of not more than six months was possible together with a fine ; on summary conviction the maximum was three months . |
| 10 | The burst of social legislation prior to 1914 was possible only within a context in which the most obvious social evils of the day , such as the poverty caused by old age , sickness and unemployment , had been identified and shown to be amenable to State action . |
| 11 | She could then either wait for the ferry , which was sporadic , or go back up to the head of the estuary and up to where the river was narrow enough for a bridge . |
| 12 | The night was so dark that the end of the trench was perceptible only as a lightening of the murk , where the ditch of the town lay ahead . |
| 13 | The period is 27 years , and the eclipse lasts for a long time ; the last began on 22 July 1982 and did not end until 25 June 1984 , though it was total only for a year ( January 1983 to January 1984 ) . |
| 14 | Standing in the queue were problems of the economy , of the development of the productive forces , which , with regard to agriculture , was conceivable only in a form of the growth of petty-bourgeois economy . |
| 15 | It was light enough for a woman to use ; the scythe was a different matter . |
| 16 | As we came round on Wigmore one more time , it was clear even from a distance that the situation had flared up drastically . |
| 17 | The greatest pity was that the top was clear enough for a view and as we were perched at the broad gable end of the mountain we could see some fabulous sights . |
| 18 | The dining room was empty apart from a couple of staff members who were laying tables for breakfast . |
| 19 | Only 17 per cent felt he was acceptable even as a co-representative . |
| 20 | He had the difficult task in 1832–3 of reconciling his sympathy for the Whig government with pressing for the sort of positive action on emancipation which was acceptable both to a majority in the political and parliamentary class and antislavery militants in the country . |
| 21 | The huge sphere of its forward compartments was visible only as a nothingness in the star-filled field of space — a circle of darkness more intense than that which surrounded it . |
| 22 | ‘ When I told him that the van was standard apart from a roll cage he found it even more difficult to accept . |
| 23 | Mitch was thoughtful too for a moment and then he asked , ‘ Why did n't you tell him you spoke Spanish ? ’ |
| 24 | PRS and Patrick Eggle have revived this fashion , which was predominant once upon a time on Gibson 's ES345/355 models . |
| 25 | That was lucky really in a way |
| 26 | It was possible to imagine that the sun was an expression of a force that was sick already of a day just barely started . |
| 27 | If armour-plates of internal snobbishness divided millionaires from the rich , and these in turn from the merely comfortable , which was natural enough in a class whose very essence was to climb higher by individual effort , it did not destroy that sense of group consciousness which turned the ‘ middle rank ’ of society into the ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 28 | Moyola looked the more likely to get the winning score on the resumption and it came when Ruddock , who was unlucky earlier with a header which struck the Tobermore upright , sent in from the wing in the 79th minute and their big outside left Calderwood was on hand to head to the net . |
| 29 | High Lane 's 159 all out was good enough for a draw against Woodford who reached 136 -8 . |
| 30 | The imperialist attitude was accommodated in his books all the more easily because he put the emphasis on service and sacrifice rather than on nationalist domination or material gain : an approach that may seem hypocritical to present-day readers was sincere enough in a man who set out to be a philanthropist and reformer and became a best-seller . |