Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [adv] of the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Weeping females were nothing out of the ordinary for him .
2 Hanging leaders were nothing out of the ordinary , and the Old Thunderer even confessed itself vexed by the ‘ overmagnanimous spirit of British law , which always presumes a man innocent until he is proven guilty ’ .
3 There was nothing out of the ordinary here , just the usual chairs and trays of instruments and contraptions of tubes and clamps and wires .
4 This defeat was itself part of the wider eclipse of state medicine in the 1870s and 1880s , which opened the space for purity groups to push for their own conception of sexual reform through the criminal law .
5 That Pretty Polly was something out of the ordinary was confirmed as she sailed unbeaten through a nine-race campaign as a two-year-old and continued to carry all before her in 1904 , notching up facile victories in the One Thousand Guineas ( at 4–1 on ) , the Oaks ( 100–8 on ) , the Coronation Stakes ( 5–1 on ) , the Nassau Stakes ( 33–1 on ) , the St Leger ( 5–2 on ) and — just two days after the final Classic — the Park Hill Stakes ( 25–1 on ) .
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