Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accident-prone Frank Spencer was just a step away from Runnicles , the witless bank clerk . |
| 2 | Assistant manager Edwin Stein was also a player under Fry and knows him better than most . |
| 3 | Really , thought Liz , really : Deirdre was exactly the kind of neurotic that she did her best , professionally , to avoid — narcissistic , exhibitionistic , selfish , manipulative , childish , unreliable , unpunctual , self-satisfied even in the depths of self-reproach , and yet there she somehow managed to stand , in the middle of Liz 's own kitchen , brandishing a pie knife . |
| 4 | The press took it as read that Kylie was indeed an anorexic — again something that she has always denied . |
| 5 | Apparently Kylie was usually the one to surrender to Charlie 's heavyweight protestations . |
| 6 | 100 ) , but Macedon was only a secondary theatre in the Decelean and Ionian Wars , so that he does not figure very much in the narratives of Thucydides or his continuator Xenophon . |
| 7 | Remaindering was rather a dirty word in the book trade , and those involved were known as ‘ vultures ’ and ‘ scavengers ’ . |
| 8 | He had forgotten that Marie was only a girl ; forgotten that she was wearing a ridiculous dressing-gown . |
| 9 | Dennis was also an adviser on it . |
| 10 | Yet , for all its self-importance late-medieval Chichester was only a quarter the size of Salisbury in terms of its taxpayers , 869 of them in 1377 . |
| 11 | Eleanor was just a stupid fan , of course . |
| 12 | As Secretary , Clerk of the Council , and Clerk of the Signet at Ludlow , Greville was probably the most important person there next to the President and the Chief Justice . |
| 13 | Professor N. Ambraseys was arguably the first to recognise the full implications of the study of the history of earthquakes to the science of tectonics . |
| 14 | Yet , if Durham had special strategic and political features which made Fordham unacceptable there in the eyes of the Crown 's opponents and of key northern lords , Ely was notoriously the rich neo-sinecure of English bishoprics , and for Fordham a homecoming . |
| 15 | Clapton was also an isolated spot where the traps were usually left for a couple of days before being checked . |
| 16 | Ceauşescu was already the heir-apparent and perhaps hoped to improve his chances of taking over sooner rather than later by siding with the pro-Soviet lobby . |
| 17 | Oddly enough , Ceauşescu was always a shrewder judge of the likely choice for the highest offices of democratic electorates than of who would come out on top of the Soviet politburo . |
| 18 | Ian Paisley was once a member of the Shankill Road Lodge of the Orange Order and a lodge chaplain , but he resigned from the Order when the County Grand Lodge refused to expel Sir Robin Kinahan for attending a funeral service in a Roman Catholic chapel . |
| 19 | El Alamein was really the beginning of the end of the desert campaign . |
| 20 | Hardy was just a very kind old man . ’ |
| 21 | Paddington was essentially a station for mixed general traffic , but foodstuffs of various kinds formed a large proportion of incoming merchandise . |
| 22 | Richard was already a good shot , a patient fisherman and a brave , if occasionally reckless , rider , but competence in all these sports had come to him so easily that he had no interest in practising them . |
| 23 | Richard was only an innocent babe , and as for Cissie , there was no more delightful child on this earth . |
| 24 | Jack could not possibly run the house from Oxford , and Warnie was still a serving officer in the Army . |
| 25 | All the competition had achieved was an examination of the various possible designs , and if Manners was determined to have a Gothic Foreign Office , it showed that Scott was probably the most suitable architect to carry it out . |
| 26 | Scott was never a leading scientific thinker , and probably owed his election as fellow of the Royal Society in 1870 to Sabine , but he was a capable administrator . |
| 27 | Still , David was also an honest and capable footballer and , even if his Palace career was not to reach his previous level , he played some useful games for us and was probably at his best in the autumn of 1983 , when he also scored some valuable goals , including one late winner against his home town club , Cardiff City . |
| 28 | As a person , David was almost a man born out of his period . |
| 29 | George Underwood : David was always a bit over the top and he decided to write to John Bloom , a millionaire business , saying something to the effect ‘ Brian Epstein has got The Beatles but you can have us ’ , but Bloom was n't that interested and passed his letter to Les Conn , an agent . ’ |
| 30 | The American painter Abraham Walkowitz was almost an exact contemporary of Max Beckmann , though the two were very different kinds of artists indeed . |