Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1	In an atmosphere so heady with romance , in a climate so receptive to gothic detail and intricate workmanship , jewellery and its design were to enjoy something of a golden age .
2	Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright .
3	The trouble was , of course , that among Henry 's sort of person , a rugby-playing surveyor , for example , or the kind of dentist like David Sprott who was n't afraid to get up on his hind legs at a social gathering and talk , seriously and at length , about teeth , he was considered something of a subversive .
4	Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell .
5	Laura gave a low moan as she struggled to sit up , one half of her still almost unconscious mind noticing that Ross must have recently had a shower , since his black hair was still damp and he was wearing nothing but a short white towel about his waist .
6	It would be very strange if I stood here saying do n't use a linear script use thought patterns and yet I was reading everything off a linear script would n't it ?
7	There was much discussion as to who should captain the ship , and when Graham Gooch was appointed anyone of a cynical disposition found it hard to escape the feeling that it was in the hope that , with his South African connections , at least one government would refuse to let him in , thus avoiding another 5–0 blackwash .
8	To turn Christian , in the 1930s and after , was to declare for the past , and only Graham Greene among notable pre-war literary converts to Rome was to maintain anything like a left-Wing view of public affairs .
9	The sixth , Italy , was to prove something of a lame duck in their company , because of her lack of resources .
10	He was burning something in a small crucible , watching it bubble .

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