Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 100 ) , but Macedon was only a secondary theatre in the Decelean and Ionian Wars , so that he does not figure very much in the narratives of Thucydides or his continuator Xenophon . |
| 2 | Remaindering was rather a dirty word in the book trade , and those involved were known as ‘ vultures ’ and ‘ scavengers ’ . |
| 3 | Eleanor was just a stupid fan , of course . |
| 4 | Oddly enough , Ceauşescu was always a shrewder judge of the likely choice for the highest offices of democratic electorates than of who would come out on top of the Soviet politburo . |
| 5 | Richard was already a good shot , a patient fisherman and a brave , if occasionally reckless , rider , but competence in all these sports had come to him so easily that he had no interest in practising them . |
| 6 | Scott was never a leading scientific thinker , and probably owed his election as fellow of the Royal Society in 1870 to Sabine , but he was a capable administrator . |
| 7 | Gerald Wingfield was quite a well-known painter ; his wife wrote novels . |
| 8 | The feeling that Hawaii had been unlawfully possessed by the United States was still a potent force . |
| 9 | Apparently at this time Kington was also a popular starting point for tourists to Aberystwyth , with a daily stage coach for the sixty mile journey over the mountains . |
| 10 | Readers of this column will be aware that Mr Hayes was once a fierce critic of the Government 's running of the health service . |
| 11 | The Temple of Diktynna was certainly a celebrated holy place in the classical period ; whether the site was a centre of her worship in the Minoan period is not known , but it seems likely . |
| 12 | During the first half of the nineteenth century Hungary was still a feudal state . |
| 13 | Bedale was then a busy Crown office with a full staff , a sorting office and responsibility for many sub-offices in Wensleydale villages stretching to Hawes and the Cumbrian border . |
| 14 | Ramsey was only a little disappointed at this failure . |
| 15 | Frank Galvone was also a senior vice president . |
| 16 | Friday was always a busy day . |
| 17 | Perhaps Friday was still a wild man and would try to kill me in the night . |
| 18 | Blyth was historically a separate place from Tyneside , although very much a part of the North East Coast . |
| 19 | Blyth was formerly a medieval fishing and salt-working village known as Blyth Snook , which grew in the eighteenth century to become one of the north-east 's great coal ports . |
| 20 | Dr Clarke maintains that in the 1920s Keynes was primarily a political animal . |
| 21 | Ken was also a good listener . |
| 22 | But in spite of the changes , Sir George insisted that Constantinople was still a fascinating city , superbly sited , full of interest , and worth visiting just to see Hagia Sophia . |
| 23 | Then I think people would be justified in saying , well , Freud was essentially a Hobbesian social thinker . |
| 24 | Dustin Hoffman , Robert Redford , Gene Hackman and Robert De Niro were still a long way from making even their first films . |
| 25 | Of course Bett was still a superstitious , God-fearing Irishwoman ; you could n't expect her to appreciate that a person could have too much of a good thing — even religion . |
| 26 | There , Eva was always a great favourite and able to assume leadership easily . |
| 27 | The road through it to Exeter was always a busy and important highway , and the Honiton Turnpike Trust , set up in 1753 , was one of the first in Devon . |
| 28 | After all , one feels , Mrs Washington was surely a thrifty housewife ; had the invention of margarine occurred a century sooner than it did , no doubt she would have taken advantage of the development . |
| 29 | Ronni was suddenly a great deal more confused than angry . |
| 30 | Bridget Freemantle was probably a well-read woman and must have had an intellectual as well as personal influence over Mary Leapor . |