Example sentences of "[verb] was [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The box I built was basically a crate with a dividing wall and a piston inside . |
| 2 | The incidence found was probably an underestimate of true community incidence as the protocol did not pick up those people in whom , for whatever reason , the clinicians caring for them did not measure the serum electrolyte values . |
| 3 | Unusual , perhaps , tiresome to his office — but if the strange behaviour at which his daughter had hinted was really a sort of battiness , the office would have made its own arrangements to get by . |
| 4 | And , having provided a generally pessimistic account of the evacuee children 's condition , Our Towns drew the conclusion that what was needed was primarily a reform of the education system that would ‘ lay the foundations for community life and expose the schools to the pressure of middle-class standards and requirements ’ , with an emphasis on ‘ training for future wives ’ . |
| 5 | The young man looked startled that what he 'd thought was just a speck in his eye was turning out to be something much more serious . |
| 6 | Another version says that the idea of tapes being wiped was just a wheeze to get a comfortable taxi back to base ! |
| 7 | Each had an incomplete faith because the aspect of truth he sensed was only a part of the full truth of who Jesus is . |
| 8 | She was tired of kneeling , listening to their voices droning on : ‘ Our Father who art in heaven , hallowed be Thy name ’ , and ‘ Hail Mary , full of grace ’ , which was all she could make out of the second bit , because what followed was just a mumble . |
| 9 | There had been women writers of the Restoration whose reputations were unassailable , notably Katherine Phillips , but to publish was indeed a risk . |
| 10 | Confined to the fine arts , this clinging to the safe and known was just a brake upon innovation and exuberance . |
| 11 | The abbey he lorded was essentially a preserve for the well-endowed ; thirty or so monks surrounded by a staff of several hundred servants , controlling the life of a substantial area . |
| 12 | Perhaps the question of whether or not Sykes had been arrested was only a technicality . |
| 13 | The refectory where meals were served was still a bit daunting . |
| 14 | Try reading that and explaining the words of that , to somebody who has no knowledge of the Christian faith , I thought was quite a challenge . |
| 15 | The ease it offered was primarily a freedom from conformity . |
| 16 | Kinderszenen I felt was somehow a bit disappointing compared to the studied and elegiac reading of Schubert 's great B flat Sonata . |
| 17 | Why , Dista was asked was there a delay of 14 months ( New Scientist , vol 96 , That question remains unanswered . |
| 18 | For Albie , apparently , dealing was just a sideline at first . |
| 19 | What Simpson bought was essentially a name , some stock and a client list . |
| 20 | This pleased his Peripatetic opponents who asserted with Aristotle that sinking or floating was merely a matter of shape . |
| 21 | Until the English Tourist Board introduced their classification schemes , choosing somewhere to stay was always a bit of a gamble . |
| 22 | What emerged was quite a revelation . |
| 23 | Although the New Movement faded in its significance , because it ignored parts of the practical experience of educational management which practitioners themselves regarded as important , what was left was still a recognition that education management is a field of application which allows fruitful connections to be made between theory and practice . |
| 24 | The exact number to be allowed was entirely a matter for the constable who ‘ must be left to take such steps as on the evidence before him he thinks are proper ’ . |
| 25 | Vic said he thought two camps were a good idea because there would have been two originally and it would psychologically prepare the Indians for playing their ancestors , which I said was just a rationalisation of elitism . |
| 26 | Anything she said was only a symptom of her condition . |
| 27 | I just said was there a piece of cake left . |
| 28 | It was n't that I was n't listening , I heard him all right ; but I was busy with my own thoughts , or , rather , my own feelings — the two were inextricably mixed together at this moment — and what he said was merely a background to the tumult that was going on inside me . |
| 29 | Her mind stumbled over the new/old certainly that the garden-master she had loved was indeed a puppet . |
| 30 | This tale he was telling was surely a lie . |