Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so the words turned back on themselves , phrases reappeared , seeming to confirm other phrases , merely repeating themselves , clicking into place with a semblance of logic which nicely disguised the truth that all these words were nothing but a glittering fabric which hovered above the ground , unwinding endlessly , slipping between the fingers , beguiling like a mirage , taking on whatever shape the conjuror wanted , and leading nowhere . |
| 2 | Two more golden eagle sightings were ours on the way . |
| 3 | Prisoners flexible enough to develop new goals also seem to cope better , even if those goals were something along the lines of becoming the world record holder for the number of consecutive push ups . |
| 4 | The natives were treacherous people , as everyone knew , ungodly and faithless , and their early shows of friendship were nothing but a ruse to lull the pioneers into a false feeling of security , so that they could ensnare them in their false enchantments , pounce on them unawares and kill them while they slept . |
| 5 | ‘ The Hell Fire Club were something of a social embarrassment at the time . |
| 6 | Wyn Stewart and her husband , Peter are proof that the Club was something of a dating agency for its members . |
| 7 | By the middle of the century Arkesilas was himself on the run , fleeing from Cyrene via Euesperides to the west , where he was assassinated . |
| 8 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 9 | It had obviously escaped them that their pun was something of a contradiction in terms ! |
| 10 | Among its most notorious performances was one by a Brazilian troupe whose members bit the heads off live chickens in the course of the action . |
| 11 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 12 | But Qinghua was something of an exception , being China 's top technological university , with better facilities than other institutions and a high level of prestige . |
| 13 | The hand had the warmth of personal feeling , whereas the theatrical sigh with which she said her last words was nothing but an actressy trick from a bad radio play . |
| 14 | Men , it seemed , were scarcely tolerated in the Jarman household and Mr Hawkins was nothing but a leftover from the days when old Mr Jarman was alive . |
| 15 | A fair number of towns of this rank were reputed to be boroughs , though incorporation was something of a rarity and might well depend on special circumstances : Rye , Winchelsea and Hastings , for example , were Cinque Ports . |
| 16 | More people owned motor cars than previously : by 1956 there was one car for every three people in the United States ; in France and Britain the figure was one for every thirteen people . |
| 17 | The financial side was something of a problem to Winnie , who had not the faintest idea what should be charged . |
| 18 | Alternatively , the killer was someone from the house who had secured the door to ensure privacy , but opened it again after his crime to confirm the impression that an outsider was involved . |
| 19 | A SELF-STYLED showbiz entrepre-neur 's widely-publicised claims for a brand-new TV soap to rival Coronation Street and EastEnders were nothing but a load of froth . |
| 20 | I had a glimpse of a fair-haired girl staring wide-eyed and terrified from a tennis court , her racket held loose by her side and tennis balls scattered at her feet and , though the trees and buildings and gardens were nothing but a high-speed blur , my mind nevertheless registered with a startling clarity that the girl had been completely naked . |
| 21 | Next morning the whole village was nothing but an island in a lake of rain . |
| 22 | If we had n't heard so much about him from Robert , we 'd find it impossible to imagine that this bloke was anything but the most upright of citizens . ’ |
| 23 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 24 | For which of these excursions was he in the company of Yeats ? presumably from the Pound papers now at New Haven it would not be hard to come up with answers to these questions . |
| 25 | Unfortunately Dunbar was nothing like a full day 's ride from Dalwolsey , barely twenty miles , and by fair roads ; and Fraser , a grizzled veteran , was scarcely the man to try to involve in an unnecessary overnight stop in the interests of romance , however chivalric . |
| 26 | To Lord John , Sharpe was nothing but a killer who had been trained and hardened to death on innumerable battlefields , while Lord John had only ever brought about the death of foxes . |
| 27 | And when they got there , they found that both anticipation and anxiety had overestimated the occasion , for like the reception at the Hôtel de Ville , the dance was nothing but a stifling , uncomfortable , noisy , joyless crush . |
| 28 | Cameroon was something of an exception in having a number of privately owned papers : L'Echo du Cameroun , Dialogue , Le Petit Camerounais and Les Nouvelles du Mungo . |
| 29 | In 1924 , the All Blacks undertook internal matches against Auckland and Manawatu as preparation for a European tour and promptly lost 14-3 to Auckland , who in those days were nothing like the force they are now . |
| 30 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |