Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None the less they were at once a part and a symptom of a great expansion of European wealth . |
| 2 | Official figures are not available on the number of pickets injured , but there were at least a couple of fatalities and it is the opinion of some observers that , in the major conflicts of the dispute , casualties amongst the pickets greatly exceeded those of the police ( Wallington , 1985 : 149 ) . |
| 3 | Fearful anticipation had proved somewhat worse than the event , and most Viennese were coming round to the opinion that , whatever the failings of Napoleon 's men , they were at least an improvement upon the Hapsburgs ' Russian allies , whom everyone loathed . |
| 4 | One important direction of expansion was southward into the Altai-Sayan mountain region on the border of Mongolia , where the Russian town of Kuznetsk was for long an outpost threatened from west , south and east by the ‘ White Kalmyksn ( Teleuts and other Altaian tribes ) , the Oirats or western Mongols , and the Chinese . |
| 5 | ‘ I found out the following day how much it was worth when a dealer offered me £40,000 . ’ |
| 6 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 7 | He held her in his arms , still and warm , and after a while in that darkness he felt as though he held nothing at all ; it was like when a limb , having been left in the same position for too long a time , somehow loses all reference to the body , and for those instants before some willed movement the very location and attitude of that arm or leg is quite unknown . |
| 8 | Eventually , when he was persuaded to pose with some part of the violinist 's equipment , it was with just a bow . |
| 9 | Everyone was in rather a hurry and I am always bad at catching people 's names . |
| 10 | Obviously I should have provided more text than I did , but I suppose I was in rather a hurry . |
| 11 | You could n't cut them that day cos they were hot , you see , the day you killed them the , cos father was a rare man he , when we got , we got two fridges , we used to kill a week in hand , you see , one lot was in one fridge , that was in there a week before we touched it yeah . |
| 12 | While she — she was in quite a bargaining position . |
| 13 | Jacqui was in quite a state . |
| 14 | ‘ I know , but she phoned for her results — she was surprised to get me , she seemed to have hoped you 'd be waiting by the phone — and when I told them you 'd gone , her mother took the phone and was in quite a tizz and had a word with Mr Fry and then said they 'd get the next plane home . |
| 15 | He took her arm firmly and Jenna was in quite a dilemma . |
| 16 | Treleaven was until recently a pipe fitter . |
| 17 | Darlington is well provided with Catholic schools and as Father Cademan is a member of the Diocesan Schools Commission and was until recently a county councillor , one might ask why did recent rebuilding proceed on the basis of an under-estimation of demand ? |
| 18 | That was until about a year ago when the last Silicon party was held in Utrecht . |
| 19 | Oh it was on quite a lot . |
| 20 | It was part of the social self-definition of the patronizing household , often deliberately in terms residual from the true courts , to assume what was at once a responsibility and an honour ! |
| 21 | Their philosophical idealism was at once a retreat from the material world of unruly mobs and declining privilege and a programme for maintaining their position while accommodating some change : ‘ Socratic political thought was an intellectually sophisticated and ingenious justification for counter-revolution in democracy and the maintenance of the status quo in oligarchy ’ ( ibid. p. 4 ) . |
| 22 | This was at once a problem and a happy release . |
| 23 | In this case he clearly decided that the sampo was at once a thing and an allegory , like the Silmarils : a jewel , bright , hypnotic , intrinsically valuable , but also the quintessence of the creative powers , provoking both good and evil , the maker 's personality itself . |
| 24 | Terry Castle suggests that for these poets the mirror was at once an emblem of the psyche and the symbol of an alternative world : ‘ … the mirror image both distilled a longing for purity and expressed a desire for escape … ’ |
| 25 | On the other hand , it was at least a change . |
| 26 | The paddle in , around , and out again , was at least a mile . |
| 27 | The whole inlet could n't have been more than fifty yards across , but to Maha it was at least a mile wide , as deep as the ocean , wet and cold . |
| 28 | I did n't think they could know anything about my boat — she was at least a mile away , on the northern edge of Winter Marsh , and as I 'd come from the road on the south they had no reason to search the northern shore . |
| 29 | Yet perhaps it was at least a contingency worth testing . |
| 30 | It was at least a quarter of a minute before anyone looked up , and there is little doubt that the word " elephant " appeared on the pages of these so-called notes . |