Example sentences of "was [pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN INJURED man had repeatedly told police that there was no-one in a derelict boarding house which had been destroyed in an explosion , a jury heard yesterday . |
| 2 | The women believed that the PDC 's stated concern for their welfare was nothing but a hollow promise : |
| 3 | Today the president , Mrs Macpherson , in between gracefully shaking hands with each new arrival and presenting her to Mrs MacDonald , decided that she was nothing but a vulgar upstart , and she trembled with suppressed irritation at having to stand in the same receiving line with her . |
| 4 | She was the sort that keeps coming , that never knows when they 're licked … the mad cockerel I once hit with my toy cricket bat — it was an accident , of course it was , but I had to keep hitting it and hitting it until it was nothing but a bloody pulp on splintered sticks . |
| 5 | There , where I had hoped to see a fine , impressive house , was nothing but a blackened heap of stones , with the silence of death about it . |
| 6 | And once they climbed so high they entered the clouds and there was nothing but a great whiteness around them as if the world had been erased by a giant rubber . |
| 7 | Seaward there was nothing but a pearly opalescence which , though it seemed likely to vanish at any moment , effectively blocked out sea and sky . |
| 8 | Luke Calder was nothing but a ruthless manipulator who made people do what he wanted when he wanted it , yet all she could think of was that she wanted to feel again the hot urgency of his mouth ! |
| 9 | And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author . |
| 10 | ‘ Your mother — that precious Maman you speak about with such reverence — was nothing but a common slut . |
| 11 | As I came over the brow , there was nothing but a windswept plateau . |
| 12 | Instead there was nothing but a pale mist-shadow pearling between the surfaces of reality . |
| 13 | But , she told herself sternly , she was nothing but a foolish girl , men the like of Craig Grenfell were not for Hari Morgan . |
| 14 | Ranulf came up and expertly went through their wallets and pockets but there was nothing except a few coins . |
| 15 | There was nothing like a big coon or a dose of clap to get rid of a punter . |
| 16 | Unfortunately Dunbar was nothing like a full day 's ride from Dalwolsey , barely twenty miles , and by fair roads ; and Fraser , a grizzled veteran , was scarcely the man to try to involve in an unnecessary overnight stop in the interests of romance , however chivalric . |
| 17 | You had to get up in the morning and see that there was plenty of a great pot of of hot water , boiling water . |
| 18 | He did not return to England as the advocate of a new political ideal , but as a man who was himself under a new obligation of obedience . |
| 19 | Then it was You re a naughty child " sort of thing , and it all fell on to me . |
| 20 | It was something about a sure light in their eye |
| 21 | And there was something about a large tortoise stove , freshly done with first-class blacklead and plenty of elbow-grease , that gladdened your eyes . |
| 22 | A legendary figure , he was something of a benevolent despot : he steadfastly refused to allow labor unions in his factories , but paid his workers a wage above the national average . |
| 23 | It is therefore apparent that labour within the Personnel area was something of a scarce resource ! |
| 24 | Descending this great river , the Oued Nfis , from that ‘ lost world ’ was something of a long dream realised . |
| 25 | Sparks and Yeates found that the new venture was something of a small goldmine , much more lucrative than cutting mens ' and boys ' hair for 6d and 3d respectively . |
| 26 | Because FI , in the wake of Renault , was shifting towards the turbo engine and because McLaren was beginning to develop the TAG/ Porsche engine , 1982 was something of a transitional year at the team and both Niki and his team-mate John Watson suffered in the results table , Watson actually finishing ahead of Niki in the championship , the first time he had ever been upstaged within his own team . |
| 27 | He was a good footballer and he always looked a bit weird with his striking blond hair However , there was something of a monkey-like mischievousness about him . |
| 28 | All 10 proved negative , but he added : ‘ That was something of a dry run . |
| 29 | Mr Chettle was something of a late starter . |
| 30 | It was something of a turning point for the Prince too . |