Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told 'em — -them — you were nothing of the kind . |
| 2 | The Report criticised the crew of the Croydon for not doing more to rectify the compass problems which they had experienced and for relying too heavily on D/F bearings , but it implied that the Darwin W/T station should not have stated the bearings of ‘ night error ’ , they should have known they were nothing of the sort . |
| 3 | On these walls were none of the usual posters bidding young mothers to drink milk in pregnancy and bring their toddlers for a twice-yearly check-up . |
| 4 | Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution . |
| 5 | Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite . |
| 6 | The permanent staff was gradually purged to other camps until there were none of the original ‘ old people ’ left . |
| 7 | There were none of the crowds that had been there during the day and we could really pray . |
| 8 | Moreover , the papers were run as political ventures ; there were none of the commercial , management , planning and sales activities that were to be found at the Standard . |
| 9 | There were none of the demonstrations or obstructions which he had feared , and in fact such was the success of the play that he was featured on the cover of Time magazine on 6 March . |
| 10 | This was another of those naked spaces , so exposed it was useless — putting a chair out there to sit in the sun seemed unthinkable , there were none of the nooks and crannies or spaces that invited use . |
| 11 | There were none of the battered paperbacks usually left abandoned after rainy afternoons in holiday houses , no near pornography and , she thought , no detective stories , until she remembered the Sherlock Holmes collection beside the bed . |
| 12 | Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay . |
| 13 | Er there were none of the incubators and this sort of thing for them like we 've got today . |
| 14 | There were none of the comforts we take for granted now . |
| 15 | They were pretty much the style of suits that people wear now — double-breasted with peg trousers — but then they were something of a revolution . |
| 16 | The Euro-elections were something of a test for the Greens . |
| 17 | Manager Goodman quickly spotted that Harry 's lack of inches ( he only stood 5ft 6in ) were something of a handicap when playing down the middle in Second Division football and successfully transferred him to the outside-right spot . |
| 18 | The years 1794–1806 were something of a honeymoon for the Prussians and their Poles : a spirit of co-operation flourished as the Prussians sought to secure the affections of their Polish subjects . |
| 19 | We were something of a phantom museum . |
| 20 | They were something of a hotchpot . |
| 21 | ‘ The Hell Fire Club were something of a social embarrassment at the time . |
| 22 | Rock pools were something of a novelty for him . |
| 23 | To him , they were something of an adventure , a small knock at the system which gave him the illusion of individual importance . |
| 24 | We doggedly persevered in our pursuit of consumer acceptance , so convinced were we of the superiority of our product , but , as always , ultimately the customer is king , and our product was rejected and has joined the ranks of many other good ideas whose time may come one day , but certainly is not with us now . |
| 25 | Other signalmen had similar stories to tell and some refused to work the box , so frightened were they of the strange events . |
| 26 | They would lie like flatfish to protect each other from parental awareness , and so certain were they of the rightness of their cause — which was , in many cases , the pursuit of uninterrupted idleness and pleasure — that no one could disbelieve them . |
| 27 | Many of the prehistoric and early historic sites protected by the 1882 act — earthworks , hill-forts , megaliths , and burial mounds — were our of the mainstream of archaeological interest , which was concentrated on more recent and more artistic relics . |
| 28 | Sir John had identified a great number of passages which he regarded as objectionable from the government viewpoint , but I suspect he recognised early on that there was nothing of a very secret nature to conceal and what the government sought to suppress were the comments made by Crossman and others about senior civil servants . |
| 29 | There was nothing of the picturesque or civic excess in these stations . |
| 30 | It was nothing of the sort . |