Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feminist responses to hygienism were rarely unambiguous , partly because physiological medicine and evolutionary biology were so powerful a mainstay of anti-feminist campaigns . |
| 2 | Paradoxically , the more the middle class increased and flourished , diverting resources towards its own housing , offices , the department stores which were so characteristic a development of the era , and its prestige buildings , the less went relatively to the working-class quarters , except in the most general form of social expenditure streets , sanitation , lighting and public utilities . |
| 3 | Goodwill , training , time , skill and pupil support are all likely to be in shorter supply than would be the case if there were not such a plethora of assessment innovations taking place at the same time . |
| 4 | Clara could have forgiven the things their ugliness , if that very ugliness were not such a source of pride . |
| 5 | Neither the seamen nor their leaders , Shinwell admitted , had heard of the Queensberry rules ; " they had one common characteristic , a belief that toughness and a bellicose attitude were as good a rule of life as any and while many seamen were of a friendly disposition and hated trouble , some would attack from the rear and use a razor or a broken bottle " . |
| 6 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
| 7 | The fact that Paris was so rich a source of books — from de luxe manuscripts to ‘ soiled tracts and battered codices ’ — in part stemmed from its position and reputation as the greatest northern European centre of learning . |
| 8 | To share in it was so distinctive a mark of membership that , in time of persecution in the second and third centuries , pieces of the consecrated bread were taken round to baptized believers languishing in prison or on a sickbed . |
| 9 | During the hundred fifty years in question , there was so great a diversity of views about nature that , on closer inspection , it becomes difficult to achieve a succinct characterization . |
| 10 | With the proliferation of puritan sects during the 1640s and 1650s , there was so great a range of extreme demands , from the nationalization of land to the emancipation of women , that it would be surprising if the natural philosophers had not begun to appear as moderates . |
| 11 | All these reasons serve to explain why this study concentrates mainly upon the attitudes to death that prevailed in the middle-class , whose irresistible rise was so prominent a feature of the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | But in performing their tasks all both reflected and further promoted the territorialization of power which was so prominent a feature of the eleventh century political scene . |
| 13 | ‘ You know , you ca n't believe she 's the same child that was so polite a couple of years ago . |
| 14 | Political management in a county setting was conducted by different methods from the outright bribery which was so significant a tool of burgh politicians . |
| 15 | Many were sold to raise funds for Henry 's wars , but some went as gifts to royal favourites , to strengthen the bond between monarch and greater subjects which was so important a part of the Tudor mystique and popularity . |
| 16 | Now Darwin got from this this idea that somehow sudden things are miraculous , are natural , erm but admittedly they may happen but I mean there is a miraculous element about sudden things , whereas things that are natural should happen gradually , and he retained this view in spite of changing his ideas about all sorts of other things , and let us now see why the gradualism was so important a component of his theory of evolution . |
| 17 | I also had odd ends of three cones of that random yarn that was so popular a number of years ago . |
| 18 | It was just such a pattern of alternating brightness and darkness in a two-slit experiment with light that convinced Thomas Young in 1803 that light was a wave-like disturbance . |
| 19 | Strauss 's annotations of Hofmannsthal 's libretto are discussed in detail , as is the harmonic structure of the opera which Gilliam identifies as tonal , thus supporting others ' views that Strauss 's next opera , Der Rosenkavalier , was not such a change of tack as it is often represented to be . |
| 20 | And Willi was usually such a tower of strength . |
| 21 | Tariq , to his credit , said we should take out as many pictures as we could , and taking them out cost 70 which at that time was ever such a lot of money . ’ |
| 22 | There was always such a lot of scope in hospitals , certainly far more than in the Army sick room . |
| 23 | Anna thought Freud was probably wrong a lot of the time , but he was beautifully , illuminatingly wrong . |
| 24 | Whatever I said , any public discussion left people ( including , I feared , our own staff ) with a confused idea that it was really all a matter of who slept with whom . |
| 25 | He knew very well that fear of Securitate informers was as effective a way of hamstringing opposition as actually deploying agents in the field . |
| 26 | Some time later I got an amp as well It was as big a piece of junk as the bass — a Fenton Weill Mk II with a Goodman speaker , which is nothing but a cheap copy of the Ampeg Portaflex B15N . |
| 27 | One glissando , caught on the run , ‘ was as beautiful a bit of timing as I have seen in any sport , ’ wrote WRA . |
| 28 | One possible conclusion from all this is that Edward 's legislative impulse was as likely a product of his contact with indigenous clergy as with contemporary popes and kings . |
| 29 | Not that Dare was brainless-Seconds considered John Kennedy 's assassination , and Do n't You Want Me was as perceptive a snapshot of Eighties mores as pop would produce . |
| 30 | FOR about 70 years , the giant department store of Owen Owen was as well-known a part of the Liverpool scene as the Pier Head . |