Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burns , he said , were rarely the cause of death , though the resulting shock-induced pneumonia was . |
| 2 | As in Egypt , aromatics were literally a way of life . |
| 3 | If it were merely a matter of eloquence , or energy or conviction , the education system , like other male institutions , would have been transformed by women already . |
| 4 | But formal requirements of this kind were merely a recognition of reality , of the fact that few diplomats could hope to live on their salaries . |
| 5 | The implication is that such conflicts as there have been in the past were merely the result of misunderstanding . |
| 6 | If it were only a matter of alcohol , would a body care ? |
| 7 | And which is natural because you know , the very early motor cars were only a sort of toy for the rich as it were and er when it came to you see er grocer 's vans or , or er laundry vans made out of old pr private cars . |
| 8 | You were only a sort of number in a bakery and er worked at a table along with the rest . |
| 9 | In the latter union these changes ‘ were less a surrender of power to the shopfloor than a formal accommodation to the reality of decentralisation which had occurred during the post-war years ’ ( Hyman , 1983 , p. 42 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ My first year at the club was tough when we were down the bottom of Division Two , but this is the biggest challenge I 've faced . |
| 11 | They were not a subdivision of Judaism , propounding one or another theological position . |
| 12 | The general form relied on the argument that the riots were not a form of protest against the insufferable social conditions of inner-city areas or the actions of the police , but a ‘ criminal act ’ or a ‘ cry for loot ’ . |
| 13 | So all their efforts to create helium from hydrogen hat been fruitless ; the traces of helium that they saw had been absorbed from the environment and were not a product of fusion . |
| 14 | Soaps , audience research had long shown , were not the kind of programme the public associated with the BBC . |
| 15 | The residents ' associations were not the type of organization that would welcome such an alliance . |
| 16 | " The strings were not the ornament of life but its substance . |
| 17 | The APU fairs even worse with regard to consultation ; for example the six lines of development were not the subject of debate when they were initially proposed . |
| 18 | On Malta two losses were suffered during early May which were not the result of enemy activity . |
| 19 | Consequently most accidents , and there were nearly 500 of them during the 1970s , were not the result of employee thoughtlessness but emerged directly out of the contradictory demands made upon the workforce . |
| 20 | Her clothes could not be described as unsuitable for the country , but they were not the sort of thing a country woman would wear . |
| 21 | These remarks were largely the product of hindsight and of their experiences in office from 1969 . |
| 22 | All types of medicines reputed to be the equal of branded goods except that generally they were just a load of rubbish . |
| 23 | His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap . |
| 24 | I tried to tell myself it was purely physical and you were just an object of desire , but I knew it was more than that . ’ |
| 25 | This dominance of the political level ensured that the state and its policies were always an instrument of class rule . |
| 26 | To either side of Pau are old places which were once the capital of Béarn . |
| 27 | More and more people are turning to this type of therapy and are discovering in it many of the consolations and insights that were once the preserve of religion . |
| 28 | Handbags were once the source of derision and scorn — the butt of jokes about the Queen and Margaret Thatcher — but today they are a happening item . |
| 29 | In particular Jones had a complete count of neutrons and also of their energies , so he could tell which neutrons came from cosmic rays and which were possibly the result of fusion . |
| 30 | After the whambamthankyouma'am of the sixties , the seventies barely existed in their own right , but were more a kind of dream time when no one wanted to admit the good times had gone , or indeed had never really been . |