Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [adj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , he endeavoured to introduce into Siberia something which was after all only a rudimentary concept at that time in metropolitan Russia , that is , the ‘ rule of law ’ . |
| 2 | Whatever the official view of police work , to those on the ground , it was above all else a job . |
| 3 | It was above all else a moral philosophy , the means by which the oppressed members of society came to understand the source of their oppression and worked towards its overthrow . |
| 4 | when I was in that nearly a fortnight . |
| 5 | In general one might say that Law has become marginally less distinct from other subjects than it was in that quite a few people are doing cross disciplinary research , e.g. in law and economics and law and society . |
| 6 | Okay and erm when Dennis was on okay about a week ago |