Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adj] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she was young and maybe a little wilful , Elizabeth had made what she deemed to be the right decision , and she had suffered because of it . |
| 2 | It was possible that even a reject like him could be of use in such a godforsaken spot . |
| 3 | It was interesting that quite a number saw their being easily located at their place of work as a benefit . |
| 4 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 5 | It was adventurous and yet a bit modest and down-to-earth . |
| 6 | It was unlikely that even a common language could create a common national spirit to unite Spanish-speaking people divided by the salt , estranging sea , but as long as empires based on the principles of allegiance to a monarch were the dominant form of political organization they were very well adapted to face the problems of expanding and then of ruling new subjects . |
| 7 | From March 1918 it was clear that only a crushing military victory by one or other side would bring ‘ peace ’ . |
| 8 | The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities . |