Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] in a [noun] " 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 | It might be thought that such tenets were unambiguous enough in a democracy to be assured the most rigorous defence . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | That was lucky really in a way |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Michael Schumacher was third fastest in a Benetton . |
| 10 | Alesi , thrilling the sparse crowd with his aggressive style , was third fastest in a car specially equipped for the session with new Ferrari V12 engines . |