Example sentences of "that [was/were] [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , she had meekly done as they wished and taken on a responsibility that was clearly a bit of a burden . |
| 2 | The depth of Nizan 's commitment to the Soviet Union was similarly visible a few months later when he described the great steps made by the mass of the Soviet people in terms of cultural development : When you have seen young workers in Moscow or Tashkent … speaking passionately of Gogol or Gorky , you realise that the Soviet people have gained admission to the high culture that was previously a privilege of the bourgeoisie … |
| 3 | tying them up but when they went out to the end of the estuary that was just a case of get there first to get the job ? |
| 4 | He had just provided some polish for a machine that was already a miracle of design . |
| 5 | She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery . |
| 6 | With a sigh that was almost a gurgle of gratification , she found the slippery spread . |
| 7 | Gosstandard , a body that was once a bane of exporters to the Soviet Union has again raised its ugly head . |
| 8 | The hon. Member for Thurrock asked whether I did not know that if one took economic resources from one area and instilled them into others that was merely a way of upsetting the ordinary economic mechanism and that it did not result in any advances . |