Example sentences of "was [adv] [conj] [adv] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And this was more than just a professorship . |
| 5 | But nervousness and vacillation over direct state intervention was more than just a problem of administration . |
| 6 | He was more than just a hypochondriac . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But it was more than just a pub crawl . |
| 9 | The man was more than just a mystery , he was an intricate , mesmerising maze . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There was more than just a matter of fifty years separating her life from that of Johnny Latimer . |
| 13 | By this stage , Des was more than just a mascot . |
| 14 | Luke 's no fool ; he could see that so far as I was concerned Elise was more than just a client . |
| 15 | In de Gaulle 's mind , the empire was more than just a source of potential recruits . |
| 16 | That salary was more than ever a disincentive : it seemed difficult to attract experienced candidates . |
| 17 | A Celtic win was more or less a formality . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 20 | That particular trip was more or less a carbon copy of the previous one . |
| 21 | By 1880 this was more and more a matter of Great Russian chauvinism within the boundaries of the Russian Empire , and tsarist imperialism abroad , but it had great sentimental appeal among Slavs living under non-Slav rulers who were encouraged by it to look to this ‘ big brother ’ . |
| 22 | There was seldom if ever a time when all Western governments , or even all those within the EC , were equally active in relations with the East . |