Example sentences of "[was/were] [indef pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sea trials began in November 1924 and were everything the wind-tunnel experiments had promised . |
| 2 | However , there was nothing the elderly woman could have done to prevent her departure with the two children , who had been clearly delighted to be leaving their grandmother 's house . |
| 3 | There was nothing the big , anxious woman could do to investigate the matter further and although she played the beam of the torch on every inch visible to her , she could n't see whatever it was that might have made her daughter scream other than the damp and secret darkness of the place . |
| 4 | It must have begun to seem that there was nothing the British film producer could do to challenge the place of American films on the nation 's screens . |
| 5 | This was nothing the same . |
| 6 | But she was none the wiser for what came out of the speakers : a soft sea of hiss , a hint of ultrasonics , and a persistent , repetitive creaking noise . |
| 7 | He did not recognize the other two rabbits and when Blackberry told him their names — Speedwell and Acorn — he was none the wiser . |
| 8 | It was depressing to have to admit to herself that after four days together she was none the wiser , that , if she made the mistake again of leaving her vulnerable heart unguarded , he might once more strike her a casually cruel blow , and this time she might not recover . |
| 9 | She was none the wiser . |
| 10 | He knew the regiment was fighting somewhere in France , but its exact location was never recorded in the paper , so Charlie was none the wiser . |
| 11 | She 'd let herself go , last night — but she was none the worse for it , was she ? |
| 12 | It was something the competitive society logically needed … |
| 13 | The creation of this magical vortex was one the first and greatest acts of the High Elf mages of Ulthuan . |