Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the best documented tales of the sighting of a sea monster occurred in 1852 , when a whaling vessel , the Monongahela , netted and took aboard a creature which was rather like a cross between a snake and a crocodile . |
| 2 | It was presumably as a result of this that Palmerston wrote to the Treasury in May 1836 , explaining his views on the new accommodation . |
| 3 | Unlike his predecessors , he seems to have got his nobles more or less under control , and had pacified the Highlands ; but , like those predecessors , he found that England was rarely in a mood to be pacified . |
| 4 | This was so despite a provision in the Articles of the company defining " the board " as including " any committee authorised by the board to act on its behalf " . |
| 5 | From 936/1530 to well beyond the limits of the present study the office was held continuously by Ottoman scholars , a survey of whose careers suggests that if the office was not a mevleviyet from 936/1530 it was so from a matter of a very few years thereafter . |
| 6 | She loved him so passionately , and he was so like a god in her eyes . |
| 7 | It was so like an act of worship , so supplicating , that Alexandra could not bear it . |
| 8 | She was all for a bit of ducking and diving , that 's how everyone lived in her estimation , but from what she had gleaned recently about her sons , it was a completely different lifestyle they were after . |
| 9 | ‘ They also understand about that at the time Kenny left he was obviously under a lot of the stress . |
| 10 | The sparrow was n't too badly injured as far as I could tell , but it was obviously in a state of shock and could n't fly . |
| 11 | He was clutching his foot and was obviously in a lot of pain . |
| 12 | It was perhaps as a member of Gloucester 's retinue that he fought at Bannockburn in June 1314 , where Gloucester was killed ; and his performance in the battle , for which he was later rewarded with land worth 100 marks a year , may have brought him to Edward II 's notice . |
| 13 | This crossed with Trevelyan 's letter , so he wrote again on 12th December , pointing out that the £30,000 voted by Parliament was only for a portion of the site authorized and that an additional £80,000 would be required to purchase the whole area . |
| 14 | They 'd seen each other every day since then ; sometimes , because of rehearsals and because Gesner had so much work to do , it was only for a drink at the Franz Joseph . |
| 15 | In fact , it was only as a consequence of this earlier work of literary , linguistic , and historical categorizing that it became possible for a sense of national and vernacular " ancestry " to challenge the cultural and educational rule of the classical languages and literatures . |
| 16 | His progress was predictably rapid , and after eighteen months he made the move to television , even though it was only as an assistant on Pets and Vets , an animal welfare show . |
| 17 | it was only about a mile down the road that place |
| 18 | The sixteenth of May ’ or course , was only about a fortnight before Clare 's death . |
| 19 | Daak 's grinning face was only about a metre below their feet . |
| 20 | Cos I says to her , I says , do you want a turkey sandwich and well , there was only like a quarter of a tin left . |
| 21 | It was only after a trip to Italy in early 1932 , to see how fascism operated there , and with the support of Lord Rothermere and the Daily Mail , that Mosley renewed his efforts to form a new party designed to instil discipline into the nation , to generate a ‘ classless brotherhood ’ and to meet the challenge of communism . |
| 22 | It was only after a couple of weeks that Minyip deigned to eat alfalfa — which probably saved the lives of both horses . |
| 23 | I was only after a couple of references . ’ |
| 24 | At one time boundaries were , in the main , marked by a white line , and it was only after a number of years of requesting the TCCB that in matches organised by them a rope be used to denote the boundary that this regulation was implemented , if my memory serves me correctly , for the 1983 season . |
| 25 | As for her voice , it seemed to be down at her elbow somewhere , and it was only by a kind of automatic reflex that she was singing at all . |
| 26 | Even so , Police Constable Clifford nearly hit her , and it was only by a combination of his skill and the excellent condition of his car 's brakes that he was able to stop a fraction of a second before knocking her down . |
| 27 | It was only by an act of supreme will that she was finally able to wrench her mouth from his to look up at him with angry , blazing eyes . |
| 28 | The fully independent craftsman owning the materials on which he worked and selling the product of his own labour was much in a minority by the middle of the eighteenth century . |
| 29 | His liability was thus as a principal in the second degree . |
| 30 | Was ashore in a cleft among the rocks there and the the lifeboat had to turn in a position that was just about twice her own length . |