Example sentences of "was [adv] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Citizenship was obviously and visually a life , your whole life , with common dangers , common responsibilities , common enjoyments , and common ambitions … |
| 2 | As has been seen above the Council was organically and functionally the creation of the member States with no separate existence outside their control . |
| 3 | Within marriage , in Gorer 's group , the most frequent rate of intercourse — the number of times within a given period in which intercourse generally took place — was once or twice a week , in about a third of the marriages concerned . |
| 4 | The right of refugee return remained firmly part of the rhetoric but it was less clear whether it was still as firmly a part of policy . |
| 5 | And this was more than just a professorship . |
| 6 | But nervousness and vacillation over direct state intervention was more than just a problem of administration . |
| 7 | He was more than just a hypochondriac . |
| 8 | It was my own experiences with herbal treatments , due to being ill over the past few years , that convinced me that there was more than just a placebo effect at work . |
| 9 | But it was more than just a pub crawl . |
| 10 | The man was more than just a mystery , he was an intricate , mesmerising maze . |
| 11 | His games connection that year was more than just a marketing one ; it was also the third time he had been chosen for the Scotland team as a pole-vaulter . |
| 12 | Everything here was different and therefore better : the stiff-backed brass taps , the cut of the banister , the genuine oil paintings ( we had a genuine oil painting too , but not as genuine as that ) , the library which somehow was more than just a roomful of books , the furniture old enough to have woodworm in it , and the casual acceptance of inherited things . |
| 13 | There was more than just a matter of fifty years separating her life from that of Johnny Latimer . |
| 14 | By this stage , Des was more than just a mascot . |
| 15 | Luke 's no fool ; he could see that so far as I was concerned Elise was more than just a client . |
| 16 | In de Gaulle 's mind , the empire was more than just a source of potential recruits . |
| 17 | And it was more than just the light reflected from their balding , silvery heads . |
| 18 | International commerce was more than just an exchange or European manufactures for primary produce from the rest of the world . |
| 19 | But the speech was more than just an attack on the Commission , for it was also an astute defence of his good name and reputation . |
| 20 | It was immediately apparent that the main challenge to the ingenuity of the designers was the considerable width of the building , which , at 20m ( 66ft ) , was more than double the dimension usually found in residential buildings . |
| 21 | Investment activity by unit was more than double the percentage of North Side units contained by the neighbourhood . |
| 22 | The number of reported seroconversions has risen steadily since 1986 ; the number of cases in which transmission of HIV-1 was known to have occurred during 1990–2 ( 157 ) was more than double the number recorded during 1987–9 ( 74 ) . |
| 23 | The annual growth in the number of patients treated , at 1.9 per cent per year , was more than double the rate of growth in spending ( Robinson 1991 ) . |
| 24 | That salary was more than ever a disincentive : it seemed difficult to attract experienced candidates . |
| 25 | The tube was more than twice the length of an adult macaque 's arms . |
| 26 | A DRIVER who caused the death of a 16-year-old jogger while his blood alcohol was more than twice the limit was jailed for 18 months yesterday . |
| 27 | A Celtic win was more or less a formality . |
| 28 | No-one actually said ‘ Piss off ’ to anyone else , or ‘ You 're fired ’ or ‘ You 're hired ’ ; it was more or less a thing where none of us really communicated at all . |
| 29 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 30 | That particular trip was more or less a carbon copy of the previous one . |