Example sentences of "was [adv] [coord] [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 A Celtic win was more or less a formality .
5 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 .
6 … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern .
7 That particular trip was more or less a carbon copy of the previous one .
8 This was more or less the case throughout the West Indies , although attitudes in Barbados were undoubtedly narrower than elsewhere .
9 Ellen was adamantly opposed to the first two and a noisy supporter of the last two , while my position was more or less the opposite .
10 ‘ Stepping Out ’ — it was more or less the record company 's idea ; it was like ‘ stepping out ’ of Genesis . ’
11 This was more or less the view of the headmaster .
12 He was more or less an alcoholic before he was 20 .
13 ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’
14 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 ’ .
15 I was the one who was here and not a sign of him — you can speak for me — ‘
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