Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pretending to be deeply interested was rather a strain . |
| 2 | What went wrong was presumably the death of Piladu 's son . |
| 3 | So the early Carboniferous was again a time of very widespread carbonate deposition . |
| 4 | We all used to go swimming from the beach here but Sabine was never a swimmer . |
| 5 | Membership of Rotary was always a delight to Tom , as was membership of his Masonic Lodge where he held top offices in both organisations . |
| 6 | That they were at least in part effective was clearly the case . |
| 7 | And not-only was there no dog worrying Farmer Olinton 's sheep ; there were n't any sheep in sight , either ! |
| 8 | The belief that mid-nineteenth-century bourgeois were unusually full-blooded and therefore obliged to build unusually impenetrable defences against physical temptation is unconvincing : what made the temptations so great was precisely the extremism of the accepted moral standards , which also made the fall correspondingly more dramatic , as in the case of the Catholic-puritan Count Muffat in Emile Zola 's Nana , the novel of prostitution in the Paris of the 1860s . |
| 9 | Being famous was never the point . |
| 10 | No , the Labour Party as far as I was concerned was just a meeting , a monthly meeting , in above the Co-op in Grove . |
| 11 | The outcome is quite unknown but Ceolred was unquestionably the invader and it should not be assumed that Ine won . |
| 12 | Rarely did any Tiller Girl stand out in a glamorous way but stunning was always the word used to describe Violet Bryant nicknamed Ginger because of her glorious red hair , she could not possibly blend in with the others . |
| 13 | If you looked at it philosophically , the whole thing about big and small was just a matter of size . |
| 14 | Sometimes the skilled were actually a species of sub-contractor , paid by output , who hired their unskilled assistants at a flat time-wage and saw to it that they kept up the pace . |
| 15 | IF the Swiss were once the masters of miniaturisation , they have surely been overtaken by the Japanese . |
| 16 | Clough jnr was generally an irrelevance ; once more , it seems that he struggles when faced by defenders who can react faster than he thinks . |
| 17 | The idea that competition for audience share would be virtuous was thus an innovation . |
| 18 | Froggy was sufficiently a part of that tradition to scorn the smart and colourful clothes that the younger caddies wore as mirror images of their masters . |
| 19 | The mere fact that he was still alive was surely a sign that he was destined to succeed was n't it ? |
| 20 | Heroes could be any one of these or many other heroic individuals — the Emperor Magnus the Pious was merely a student of theology when he began his march against Chaos , for example . |