Example sentences of "which was [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 Happily , these include some of the most desperate cases , like Borringdon , a once-magnificent Elizabethan house outside Plymouth which was no more than a gutted shell clinging to a precipice , but today is a comfortable country house hotel .
2 The farmer who sold it was happy to rid himself of a wreck which was no more than a dangerous playground .
3 He was searching for ‘ his class ’ , which he never found , and talked about ‘ the laboratory ’ , which was no more than a back kitchen with a bunsen burner and running water .
4 Wycliffe set out along the road which was no more than a lane following the course of a shallow valley .
5 The Court of Appeal rejected the Council 's defence on the ground , not that the ticket changed hands too late , but that it was not a contractual document ; for no reasonable person would expect to find contractual terms in a document which was no more than a receipt for him to prove that he had paid and which in many instances ( i.e. in the absence of the attendant ) would not change hands until long after the contract was made .
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