Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx provided the bones of an analysis of marriage as female domestic slavery , although he was personally something of a rearguard romantic ; Weber argued for sex-equality within marriage . |
| 2 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 3 | there was only one on a sort of opened pack and we could |
| 4 | I , I was only one at the time . |
| 5 | It was nevertheless something of a relief to find Fordham notably unmoved by such distant calls to glory . |
| 6 | Having had three reviews printed and received a veiled death threat from The Godfathers , I was already something of a celebrity in my native Wigan when I took the train to Commonwealth House . |
| 7 | But of course Mary Armour was already something of a veteran by then . |
| 8 | And then y when you came into the stockyard with a Caw , Caw , li like a a crow saying it was just something like a crow 's nest . |
| 9 | Even so , with water in normal supply , locking at Foxton takes an hour or more ; slow working was always something of a disadvantage . |
| 10 | He was always something of a showman and sought to attract extra revenue by utilising the tramway as an attraction : to this end he introduced Illuminations tours , reintroduced the Circular Tour and created new feature cars , attracting commercial sponsorship . |
| 11 | To imagine that the revived realism of the 1950s and after excluded other possibilities , then , is to misunderstand its nature , and the chauvinism of the school was always something of a pose . |
| 12 | In the wake of Watergate and other scandals , the pejorative connotations of the imperial presidency gained added weight , but the concept was always something of a cliché . |
| 13 | There was always something around the corner if you did n't lose your head . |
| 14 | Another lovely walk that the family occasionally took was to West Harnham or as it was known locally ‘ Watery Harnham ’ , a fitting nickname for there was always plenty in the rivers , streams and water meadows . |
| 15 | He thought it was easy for a newcomer to acquire school and institutional business because there was always someone on the lookout for improved service . |
| 16 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 17 | ‘ But in those days there was always someone in the house , and when were you ever content to sit with your feet on a footstool never moving a finger ? ’ |
| 18 | There was always someone in the next field to say ‘ Hello ’ to , and the school , which had two teachers , usually had more than thirty children in attendance . |
| 19 | We have n't finished the process of elimination , but there was hardly anybody in the club in the afternoon except the residents and a few servants , and why the servants should try to blow up someone who was trying to improve their conditions is beyond me . ’ |
| 20 | The main enemy attack was still nothing but a sound of blended menace ; a crashing noise in the rye , a thump of drums and a deep-throated cheer . |
| 21 | And there was still something about the place 's atmosphere that she found unnerving . |
| 22 | Despite its new coat of paint it was still something of a relic , something of an enigma , resembling , in its apparently purposeless massiveness , some strange arrangement of stones on the site of a vanished civilization . |
| 23 | After all , Luke was still something of an unknown quantity , and she had to be sure of her ground when the right moment came , otherwise he would annihilate her . |
| 24 | Her face was still something of the colour of a ripe apple , and her silvery hair shone with cleanliness as did the pink scalp beneath it . |
| 25 | There was school , and a lot of sport , and time spent in the mountains ; but music was clearly something of a priority . |
| 26 | His early arrival was clearly something of an inconvenience to his lordship and his colleagues who had reckoned on a day or two more of privacy for their preparations . |
| 27 | There was practically none of the systematic planning and oversight which so characterised Bath and many other spas : that could only come from the implementation of a single plan by a great landowner and architect , and Brighton had a few of these . |
| 28 | Now she knew that there was probably nothing on the other side . |
| 29 | Pat McGibbon senior now reckons his wee lad was probably something of a visionary . |
| 30 | She was also something of a femme fatale , with the looks of a young Marlene Dietrich , and a blasé manner to match . |