Example sentences of "essentially a [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 They came each year in tens of thousands before the Civil War , in hundreds of thousands for the twenty years after it , until the completion of the railway network and the advance of the plough on the prairies brought the classical period of the ‘ Wild West ’ ( which was essentially a cattle economy ) to an end in the 1880s .
2 He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist .
3 In the early days , Sainsbury 's was essentially a provisions merchant , trading primarily in fresh foods such as dairy products , poultry and game , fresh meats , bacon and hams .
4 Although Cordingly Barnes supplies Pastel via mail order , the company is essentially a systems integrator .
5 First is A P T which is essentially a heads down data entry facility .
6 Unfortunately , the latter insult is somewhat inaccurate : animators have a long history of injecting a little ‘ adult ’ spice into what is essentially a children 's medium .
7 It was the fact that this was essentially a planters ' system which ensured that the stations were built of a standard and elegance which a plantocracy could use with comfort .
8 After the ceremony Agnes and Maxim walked through other halls of the museum where she displayed more knowledge of the aeroplanes and nearly as much of the rockets as Maxim — essentially a personal-weapons infantryman — could offer .
9 Its main concern is that Motif should evolve from what is now essentially a developers ' tool to become an end user product .
10 What had been essentially a workers ' party , fifty percent of the membership workers based predominantly in the big cities and towns becomes a party of intellectuals and peasants .
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