Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 2.00 though the pains were every one and a half minutes and I was only 2cms dilated. was sitting eating sandwiches and I was starving hungry . |
| 2 | Asked , when Our Lady of Finchley was still in her niche , all candles blazing , if he were a Thatcherite or a liberal , he modestly admitted to being a liberal . |
| 3 | Examples of peasant or pastoralist protest where official conservation policies were a catalytic or a leading grievance are Kenya ( Heyer et al. |
| 4 | Those People treated me as if I were no better than an animal . |
| 5 | Picking up the axe as though it were no heavier than a bread-knife , Jos indicated the unsplit wood . |
| 6 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
| 7 | By 1948 , although living standards in general were no higher than a decade previously , the average domestic consumer was using twice as much electricity as then , but paying only half as much for it per kWh in real terms . |
| 8 | Removed long before the shells had time to form , they were no more than a cluster of marble-sized orange balls in a thick yolky substance . |
| 9 | But this confused political and economic independence , as if politics were no more than a reflex of economics . |
| 10 | You were no more than a boy the last time I saw you … twelve , thirteen at the most . |
| 11 | I were no more than a lad myself . |
| 12 | It was as if she stood in a noisy limbo ; all the yesterdays had gone as if they had never been and all the tomorrows were no more than a tantalising promise . |
| 13 | The tenacity of his loyalty brought him back again and again to the perfect womanliness of Cis and the unmatchable maleness of Ifor , but in his wider field of operation they were no more than a couple of reference points : the rest of the map had to be filled in — by Philip , by Meredith , by rugby heroes , by the poets , but most of all , and as he went along , by himself . |
| 14 | Out across the water , the end of the lake had not yet emerged from the mist , and the mountains above it were no more than a delicate shadow of grey against a deep grey sky . |
| 15 | Donna kept on walking , aware that her two unwanted attendants were no more than a foot or so behind her . |
| 16 | Apart from one or two struggling and shrivelled survivors , the roses were no more than a memory . |
| 17 | It preferred , apparently , to revel blindly in its senses , as though life were no more than a rout of appetite and sensation rather than the dream of gold she sought to share . |
| 18 | But to press into service , as though it were no more than a compendium of useful organs , the body of a servant , a friend — and a friend , at that , who died for a crime attributable to one 's own negligence — well , this moral madness placed him beyond human consideration . |
| 19 | He bent , seized my wrist , and dragged me towards him as if I were no more than a doll . |
| 20 | He carried her as if she were no more than a disobedient child back down the path to the fountain . |
| 21 | With a brief nod , as though she were no more than a casual acquaintance , he closed the door . |
| 22 | And he had spoken of her as though she were no more than a female to be used and then discarded . |
| 23 | as if history were no more than a dream . |
| 24 | My prize for the most colourful quote goes to the scientist who said that the likelihood of humans having come about as the result of evolution was the same as a tornado in a scrapyard having accidentally assembled a Jumbo jet . |
| 25 | Politically he was a Liberal and a strong supporter of free trade and of the social reforms of David Lloyd George ( later first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor ) . |
| 26 | erm I could mention the recreation budget , because I think you talked about recreation ; in about nineteen eighty the recreation budget was a million and a half , it 's now six and a half million plus . |
| 27 | And I 'll have to get a two look , cos she was a thirteen and a half so I bought a one . |
| 28 | Surfing was not just ‘ wave-sliding ’ ( as he'enalu was typically translated ) : it was a flowing and a fleeing ; it was communing with yourself and talking with others ; it was regeneration and the pursuit of truth . |
| 29 | Language work can also be covered through drama or role-play ( a speech by a Roman general encouraging the troops , an argument between a Celt and a Roman over whether the conquest of Britain was a good or a bad thing ) . |
| 30 | He was extremely hurt by that and announced that he was a moderate and a patriot . |