Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything else was a triviality . |
| 2 | Without self-respect , everything else was a sham . |
| 3 | Everybody else was a foe . |
| 4 | Almost everyone there was a member of a guild , and since the population can hardly have exceeded 1,000 some people must have belonged to several . |
| 5 | Everyone else was a couple , |
| 6 | There was occasional boredom , people came and went , there might be a technical hitch but more than anything there was a fascination with the moving pictures and that , of course , was the essence of the experience . |
| 7 | Comparison of the sediment influx above and below a date of 48060yrBP ( AD 1405–1450 ; ref. 24 ) at 30cm in core 12 ( Fig. 3 ) indicates that if anything there was a decrease in the erosion rate after the Conquest . |