Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the sporting contests were no more a part of a Grand Exposition and World 's Fair . |
| 2 | The result was to keep linesmen 's wages down : before 1862 , when the stab wage was 25s a week , most linesmen averaged 15s 2d ; in 1894 , when the stab rate was 32s , 24s was the best a piece worker could hope for . |
| 3 | That was the best , at least I understand that was the best the Secretary of State could do at the time . |
| 4 | Erm it 's interesting , Mr Saunders er when he said it it was the best the Secretary of State could do last time round , erm , I wonder why er if he could n't do it then , it would be really possible er in any way to do it now . |
| 5 | A shot from Graeme Sharp was the just a warning . |
| 6 | I really wanted to meet people I felt far more at ease with and at that time it was the still the punk era and I met a lot of other people who were into that . |
| 7 | The richer the vein was the less the tribute paid by the mine ; the leaner the vein the greater the tribute . |
| 8 | That was the basically the problem and people were n't aware of that at the time . |
| 9 | Moreover , it was a scarcely a trifle or a thing easy to get , for Mulgrave 's predecessor in office , Lord Chatham , had a list of 165 candidates with vacancies for only sixteen or seventeen a year . |
| 10 | You see , And it was a just a bit of a trick , I was putting in the rosters you see . |
| 11 | Father used to do that , he would sit in the evening then and he had to scratch on this b it was a like a tin plate with a black sort of area to scratch |
| 12 | Although it would seem an enormous sum to ordinary people it was a comparatively run-of-the mill sum to Mr. Ronson . |
| 13 | To cut a long story short , Agassi won , I skimmed my fingers raw by smoothing off mortar without gloves , but by six that evening — there was a definitely a pond where before there had been none … well , not for some years , anyway . |
| 14 | This , by the way , erm , it it is applied with this study , and that is during the thirties , particularly on the , well it it actually carried on into the forties , but but the , there was a almost a character in many plays , where one one character was , in effect , the family black sheep . |
| 15 | do you remember the time though as being , you , you certainly imply that it was a , a time when there was a quite a bit of unrest perhaps at the complexity of the scheme , as much as anything else . |
| 16 | I can remember when the er Going down to the harbour for salt and we were getting from the manufacturer , it was at the time , getting cod liver oil , you know , ready prepared for us which was a quite a saving . |
| 17 | We Jus Ha a length of them , put it around this thing like that , and then when you started twisting , it would have a They 'd be feeding more That was a quite an art again , feeding more and more straw into it you know , as I backed along . |
| 18 | I was a much a member of the club as they were . |
| 19 | Oh dear , he was what would you say , I do n't know He liked the kind of ballads , er he was a more a kind of bay he liked a ballad , so I really could n't tell you who was his favourite singer or anything like that , just if a song interested him he just |
| 20 | His replacement was no less a man than the Mayor of Henley , Councillor F. ( Fred ) Butler — a situation recognised as probably unique in past and future time and enough of an oddity for his photograph to feature in a San Francisco newspaper ! |
| 21 | William Charles 's sponsor was no less a gentleman than ‘ Robert Peckham Esquire this City 's Justice for the Borough of Southwark ’ , who was allowed to present three men to the said honour . |
| 22 | It was no less a figure than Professor Derek de Solla Price , in his Little Science , Big Science , who expressed one perspective on science in the following terms : ‘ We may define a man 's solidness … as the logarithm of his life 's score of papers . |
| 23 | Athelstan , however , informed them his companion was no less a personage than Sir John Cranston , who was now ill , so they stepped aside , doing their best to hide their smirks . |
| 24 | She was no more a disciple of Churchill than she was of Heath . |
| 25 | With them came the realisation of new opportunities and the belief that higher education was no more a man 's privilege . |
| 26 | She made you strong — and she was no more a bitch than you are . |
| 27 | In fact , unknown to the traveller , who was no more a geologist than a naturalist , he was about to step over the geological phenomenon of two prehistoric ages crunching into each other as noticeably as jagged waves hitting a large smooth stone . |
| 28 | But in the small towns of Castile and the north the local hidalgo was no more an absentee than his peasants . |