Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [pron] [was/were] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geoff was a sturdy wing-half with a refinement and vision of play which were perhaps a little too sophisticated for the Palace teams of his day , where we were forced to perform in the hurly-burly of the old 3rd Division South , and in the end his career was finished by a nasty knee injury sustained in mid-1952–53 . |
| 2 | And of course there were still a few who would never have dreamt of asking themselves whether they could afford anything , with the attitude to money of an Algernon Moncrieff . |
| 3 | Of course he was then a half-trained recruit , and now he was fully acquainted with danger and better able to assess it ( or , perhaps , on the contrary , more apt to underrate it ) . |
| 4 | After years of greatness it was just a place like any other place . |
| 5 | In the act of decoration there was both a love ritual and a death ritual . |
| 6 | As a matter of fact it was rather a hush-hush sort of business . |