Example sentences of "was [adj] [conj] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 2 | From March 1918 it was clear that only a crushing military victory by one or other side would bring ‘ peace ’ . |
| 3 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 4 | Still , on-the-move shifting was simple and even a small gearing drop helps . |
| 5 | It was unlikely that even a common language could create a common national spirit to unite Spanish-speaking people divided by the salt , estranging sea , but as long as empires based on the principles of allegiance to a monarch were the dominant form of political organization they were very well adapted to face the problems of expanding and then of ruling new subjects . |
| 6 | The competition was fierce and only a few could obtain the valuable passports , visas and tickets to leave the confines of China . |