Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dagger-shaped trefoils in the parabolic arches above were uniformly of blood hue . |
| 2 | And yet they were right of course , they were right enough it , it never came again completely as it , noth nothing stay the same . |
| 3 | ‘ Last year the Yorkshire committee paid for an extensive coaching programme for six weeks to help youngsters in the area who were predominantly of Pakistani and Indian background . |
| 4 | Johnson once described the ideal happiness which he would choose , if he were regardless of futurity . |
| 5 | Brick was the regional building material , with stone or marble facing , though a few buildings were entirely of stone . |
| 6 | That night the news spread fast round the village , but did not reach Gabriel , whose dreams were only of Bathsheba . |
| 7 | The handles and shafts of these implements and weapons were normally of wood , which is frequently visible although replaced by corrosion . |
| 8 | But the largest and most common seizures were normally of cannabis either of the herbal type or the more concentrated cannabis resin . |
| 9 | At the age of 18 her pupil was enthusiastically tracing the origins of Christian doctrine , reading works that were normally of interest only to scholarly clerics and ecclesiastical historians . |
| 10 | These were generally of log structure , with corner joint method or timber framed with infilling of boards . |
| 11 | The entablature and columns were usually of wood . |
| 12 | Wooden hoops used on casks for the home market were usually of hazel and were produced by local firms from local timber . |
| 13 | Walls were usually of stone while vaults and domes were in brick . |
| 14 | Roofs were usually of timber . |
| 15 | New demands on management led to some confusion as to whether there were in existence models which were still of value . |
| 16 | Times might change , but as matters then stood Britain , the Commonwealth and sterling were still of importance to the United States . |
| 17 | They were wrong of course . |
| 18 | In a few favoured regions , including Egypt and India , large-scale irrigation works were also of significance , though a simple and fervent faith in technology produced disastrous and unforeseen side effects , then as now . |
| 19 | The " new " classification schemes offered the possibility of flexible display in a one-dimensional sequence ( i.e. along shelves ) , and the differences between the Library of Congress Classification , Cutter 's Expansive Classification , Melvil Dewey 's Decimal Classification , Brown 's Subject Classification and Bliss 's Bibliographic Classification ( to name the prominent enumerative schemes that arose ) were mainly of notation ( the symbols used to express and mechanize the position of each subject within the sequence ) and of general order . |
| 20 | In accordance with the Protective Clause in the Act the traction posts within Croydon had bases , scroll work and finials like those used by the Corporation , with the coat of arms on the former and were mainly of bracket construction . |
| 21 | All xenografts were mainly of tumour cells ( as deduced from nucleii ) and very little tumour stroma . |
| 22 | The columns of this building were originally of wood , replaced over the centuries by stone . |
| 23 | There were quite , there were quite of times |
| 24 | The Waylands were there of course . |
| 25 | Net profits were ahead of budget . |
| 26 | Negotiations on the establishment of a customs union were ahead of schedule , and the Commission was forecasting that the union could come into effect by 1967 , three years earlier than originally planned . |
| 27 | Electricity was not taken up everywhere with the same rapidity ; central European cities were ahead of Great Britain , for example , with their electric trams . |
| 28 | Mines which were primarily of gold or silver were in a different category entirely , however . |
| 29 | The study skills she had learnt were certainly of value — six weeks before she went on her first overseas assignment her company put her through a crash course in Greek ! |
| 30 | The decor in the low-ceilinged room was mostly of wicker and bamboo , with plenty of foliage washed by a green light so vivid that its effect was one of utter unreality . |