Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The shops were rather a home from home , not the most efficient of places , ’ says Major Bourne-Arton . |
| 2 | ‘ But there were rather a lot of people about at the moorings this morning . |
| 3 | Leviticus was happy with the country , thought here were rather a lot of blacks around . |
| 4 | Burns , he said , were rarely the cause of death , though the resulting shock-induced pneumonia was . |
| 5 | The art students were mostly a bunch of individualistic , head-in-the-sand poseurs . |
| 6 | It could be a useful raw material if there were locally a need for mild alkali in this form . |
| 7 | Naturally there will be memories of matters you felt were entirely the fault of others . |
| 8 | As in Egypt , aromatics were literally a way of life . |
| 9 | We have watched Eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have watched the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial instruments . |
| 10 | We have watched eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have heard the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial intruments . |
| 11 | The two of them were merely a couple of outstanding lady tennis players , one of whom had won Wimbledon . |
| 12 | Maxwell Fyfe 's guidelines were never meant to be taken seriously but were merely a piece of bureaucratic window-dressing . |
| 13 | If it were merely a matter of eloquence , or energy or conviction , the education system , like other male institutions , would have been transformed by women already . |
| 14 | If it were merely a handful of Irish psychopaths against us , they might be foiled by a piece of pasteboard with a photograph and some numbers stamped on it . |
| 15 | But formal requirements of this kind were merely a recognition of reality , of the fact that few diplomats could hope to live on their salaries . |
| 16 | However , if it were merely the scale of the transactions that was unlawful or that payments had been made out of the wrong fund , it may be the council could be forced to honour the contracts . |
| 17 | For a long time , it seemed as if these were merely the ranting of a bitter exile . |
| 18 | It 's weird dimensions were merely the result of maximum usage of the available space and materials … it was punk and we loved it . |
| 19 | The implication is that such conflicts as there have been in the past were merely the result of misunderstanding . |
| 20 | And when she reached her room Lucy told herself her flushed cheeks were merely the result of the climb up the slope . |
| 21 | A species , as a succession of organisms produced sexually , might have only a limited total lifetime , Darwin argued ; just as a succession of apple trees propagated by grafts was supposed to last only so long before degenerating and dying as if it were merely the extension of a single limited life . |
| 22 | The pension was a voluntary gratuitous payment ant the words ’ except in the wool trade ’ were merely an intimation to Mr Wyatt that if he did enter the wool trade he must not expect them to continue the pension . |
| 23 | These efforts at information-gathering by fair means or foul were merely an intensification of something visible from the very beginnings of organised diplomacy . |
| 24 | Conglomeration meant that media companies diversified or were bought up by larger corporations whose media interests were only a part of their whole activity . |
| 25 | But his looks were only a part of it ; it was the man himself who drew her like a magnet , his mind , his character , his spirit , whatever made him him . |
| 26 | ‘ As a result of this , most of my students were only a couple of weeks behind me , ’ he laughs . |
| 27 | There were cases where watchdogs did n't react , even when they were only a couple of yards away . |
| 28 | She had found friends , and food and drink were only a couple of blocks away . |
| 29 | There were only a couple of cars there at that time of the evening . |
| 30 | Where previously there were only a couple of worthwhile applications , there 's now a mass of competing packages . |