Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [adv] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or was more accurately a fire officer for a part of an office that I was n't aware of , so I mean I think . |
| 2 | Was his grandmother really ill , or was this only a ploy ? |
| 3 | ‘ Or was that just a ploy to … ? ’ |
| 4 | Was it vision-ghosts or was there really a cascade of glass-clear strands around his head , rooted in a graceful sapphire stem ? |
| 5 | Nor was this simply a matter of formal relations at a state-to-state level . |
| 6 | Also if the destructiveness of warfare was declining , militarism was increasing , and was indeed largely a creation of this period . |
| 7 | It was constructed by Telford ( q.v. ) in 1796 to carry the Shrewsbury Canal over the River Tern , and was very much a piece of engineering experiment at the time , to be carried to glorious triumph in the simultaneous building of the great aqueduct at Pont Cysyllte ( q.v . ) . |
| 8 | Strong and brave — his 110 against Lillee and Thomson on an uneven Brisbane pitch in 1974–5 was an innings of real courage — he loved to drive off the front foot , could hit the ball vast distances and was very much a crowd-pleaser . |
| 9 | They were in what had been a walled garden and was now just a mass of rubble . |
| 10 | Somehow , step by precarious step , I had been drawn over the invisible divide and was now truly a part of the family hareem . |
| 11 | Now , it was renamed Deseret , and was only technically a part of the United States of America . |
| 12 | Raglan Castle belongs mainly to the 15th century and was as much a product of social grandeur , as it was military necessity . |
| 13 | ( B ) in their design office and the three defendants ( A ) were officials of the A.E.S.D. Union , two of them also being employees of B.O.A.C. C had been but was no longer a member of the Union . |