Example sentences of "was [adv] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not a careers forum and he reckoned that that title was a misnomer . |
| 2 | This was not the operations room of a naval warship or a secret room in the White House but my modest office above a restaurant in north London . |
| 3 | The LEA , which had an equal opportunities policy for its education service , was not the admissions authority . |
| 4 | For it was not the Police Choir that sang but seven-year-old Maria O'Neil . |
| 5 | Mrs Faber , 27 , was formerly a sports presenter on Super Channel and the BBC 's Ski Sunday . |
| 6 | It is significant that during the second and third centuries B.C. what was probably a customs post at Begram , Afghanistan , on the route between China and the west was handling ivory as well as glass and bronzes from the west in addition to lacquer bowls from China . |
| 7 | He was by trade a painter-stainer , a craft which in 1581 included face painters , history painters , arms ( heraldic ) painters and house painters ; Treswell was probably an arms painter , for he painted streamers and banners for several City companies . |
| 8 | One of the two men accused of murdering a police informer was also a drugs dealer , according to evidence given by the prosecution on the second day of their trial . |
| 9 | The famous inscription from Brough-on-Humber ( vicus Petuariensis ) , attesting the presence of a theatre , shows that some vici possessed magistrates with the title of aedile , although we may be dealing here with a site which was also a civitas capital . |
| 10 | But erm that was your final one and er that was run by a Mr , I remember Mr because he was also the sports master as well . |
| 11 | Anyone who was n't a wheels-on railwayman was demonstrably stupid . |
| 12 | and thought it was a reservations line oh was sorry it was n't a reservations line and that it was just an enquiry line . |
| 13 | He was n't a customs officer for nothing . |
| 14 | But , fifteen minutes later , it was n't the police station , but one of the local hotels that they drew up in front of . |
| 15 | The man was evidently a police officer , off duty . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |