Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jeez , how on earth d' ya take a bath and how is your love life ’ were presumably part of the empathy process from Gerry and his audience almost comatose with voyeurism and in need of splints for drop-jaw . |
| 2 | Hoffmann J. took the robust course of solving this problem on the basis that all the relevant facts were properly matters of judicial notice . |
| 3 | For the law applied to smugglers , and they were rarely men of property . |
| 4 | Dockers and warehousemen were trying to drown the fire with what were effectively thimble-fulls of water . |
| 5 | The defendants who manufactured similar valves and were effectively competitors of the plaintiff company offered work to the plaintiff 's employees on Sundays . |
| 6 | And what they did were mostly bills of the unpaid variety . |
| 7 | They were mostly men of about 25 . |
| 8 | Of course in doing this we were inadvertently upwind of the rabbits then out to feed , and numbers would head for the main wood . |
| 9 | so people were constantly sort of shoving this aside and walking through . |
| 10 | They were merely bits of paper . |
| 11 | The spots and patches visible on the Moon were merely reflections of the Earth 's imperfect relief in the Moon 's smooth and crystalline surface . |
| 12 | His wrong-headedness resided in his failure to recognize that the attitudes and expenditures of which he made so much fun were merely symbols of achievement , the kind of achievement which has in fact given rise to every civilization and marked stages in the development of each one . |
| 13 | These failures , however , were merely symptoms of a larger failing in Soviet society . |
| 14 | It was assumed by the NRS that the belted and white-faced patterns were merely varieties of the black pied and red pied breeds , with their unusual patterns fixed by selection . |
| 15 | She 'd come to his aid at a critical moment , and they were merely indications of his gratitude . |
| 16 | Physical disruption , fear , the adrenalin events — they were only part of it . |
| 17 | The steely granite-grey eyes beneath their deeply hooded lids were only part of his dark attraction . |
| 18 | Mr Lang said that the allocations were only part of the story since authorities could also spend their capital receipts and use revenue to fund capital expenditure . |
| 19 | Er I 'd want to be seen if it were only back of , back of |
| 20 | However , Kenneth Clark , who replied for the government , was not encouraging and seemed to accept the pessimistic view of Neville Trotter , Conservative MP for Tyne mouth , who blamed all the problems on Korean labour costs which were only 20% of those in the UK . |
| 21 | When the Rand study looked at five giant companies with Superfund sites , it found that their legal fees were only 21% of what they spent on cleaning up , and much less when only one company was involved in cleaning a site . |
| 22 | To Tilda , however , the fine pictures were only extensions of her life on board . |
| 23 | Nothing was clear , there were only suggestions of villages , churches , farms , woods . |
| 24 | We were only thinking of you the other week . |
| 25 | Bland little symbols were only mirrors of colour and shape that she had to push around into the order her teachers wanted . |
| 26 | And also of course a lot of crimes that had their that were basically crimes of domestic violence . |
| 27 | Aged residents were suddenly objects of pilgrimage from such far-off places as America , and soon there were few people over sixty who did not have some hastily dusted-down anecdote , remembered , borrowed or adjusted , ready for eager visitors . |
| 28 | The people would understand , he thought ; if they did n't , they were obviously supporters of the maniac Sam , and would be properly shot . |
| 29 | Judicial officials at lower levels were normally members of the civil service . |
| 30 | The clerks and station officials were normally people of pure Spanish descent , while the managers and engineers at the top were usually British or American . |