Example sentences of "essentially a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | They came each year in tens of thousands before the Civil War , in hundreds of thousands for the twenty years after it , until the completion of the railway network and the advance of the plough on the prairies brought the classical period of the ‘ Wild West ’ ( which was essentially a cattle economy ) to an end in the 1880s . |
2 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
3 | In the early days , Sainsbury 's was essentially a provisions merchant , trading primarily in fresh foods such as dairy products , poultry and game , fresh meats , bacon and hams . |
4 | Although Cordingly Barnes supplies Pastel via mail order , the company is essentially a systems integrator . |
5 | After the ceremony Agnes and Maxim walked through other halls of the museum where she displayed more knowledge of the aeroplanes and nearly as much of the rockets as Maxim — essentially a personal-weapons infantryman — could offer . |