Example sentences of "was [det] a [noun] of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was that a way of getting his own back ? |
| 2 | Was this a way of working on the quality of the strings ? |
| 3 | Indeed , to stay at the Langham was such a mark of having arrived in the world , that in a nineteenth century fraud case , a witness would declare : ‘ I knew he was a perfect gentleman . |
| 4 | As the majority ( and Pope Paul too ) was most anxious both to carry the minority with it and not to seem to be in any way undermining the Roman primacy , there was such a lot of qualifying done in the course of the final formulation of the text that , as it stands , it reads a little weakly . |
| 5 | She says that it was all a question of remembering rules and methods . |
| 6 | It was all a question of catching it at the right angle . |
| 7 | There was no way you could add a word of dialogue , because it was all a series of interlacing farces . |