Example sentences of "was [prep] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If the switch was off all the time , the output would be zero . |
| 2 | Robert 's birthday is in June , and for a number of years , his birthday treat was for all the family to go to Cambridge on the bus , to go punting on the Cam , and then to have a strawberry and cream tea . |
| 3 | A new motor car was for many a luxury that would have to wait for another day . |
| 4 | If that sounds nauseatingly juvenile , it had a certain aptness in the Fifties when marriage was for many an institution for recreating one 's childhood and centering life once more on the nursery . |
| 5 | He thought he could remember that he and Peter had fastened their rope to a spur or spike of rock and accordingly it was for such a feature that he searched . |
| 6 | Or maybe you can say that Mellor wanted to be the captain , but she was for sure the admiral . |
| 7 | Charlie could no longer accept that any victory was worth such a price . |
| 8 | ‘ The success of the operation was worth all the suffering ’ |
| 9 | It was worth all the effort just to see the bird do its stuff , and enjoy the indescribable thrill of so many chases . |
| 10 | Dressing for the afternoon , she wondered what Mrs Darrell was like , and whether she was worth all the tohu-bohu of preparing a slap-up tea , and being formally ‘ At Home ’ , which had resulted in even more work for McAllister , as Sally-Anne was increasingly beginning to think herself when she was being a maid of all work . |
| 11 | It claimed the tenancy was worth half the difference in value between the tenanted land and equivalent vacant possession land , and taxed half this amount . |
| 12 | It was about all a nome had to look at , most of the time . |
| 13 | ( One might have expected heterosexual young men to be more influenced by what was after all a film of exclusively heterosexual practices . ) |
| 14 | It offended the religious , because it seemed to make God out to be untruthful or deceitful ; in the scientific age , science was after all a route to truth , and only the Devil was the father of lies . |
| 15 | The 40MHz species , let alone the 36MHz , was after all a compromise chip when Sun and TI earlier discovered the 50MHz would be harder to make than they thought . |
| 16 | The theology of the group was sufficiently united by the fact that , amid a secular intelligentsia , it was after all a theology . |
| 17 | This was after all a period of full employment and marked growth in people 's real earnings . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought he showed great courage in agreeing to be in what was after all an undergraduate revue . ’ |
| 19 | And since literacy was a prime requirement , type-setting was of all the manual trades the nearest to teaching , governessing and clerking : traditionally the only hopes for educated girls who needed to earn a living . |
| 20 | Not only that but the decline of capitalism was of such a character each step taken represented a positive move in the direction of socialism . |
| 21 | In such cases they will escape , unless they have been negligent , or at least ought to have known that the publication " was of such a character that it was likely to contain libellous matter " . |
| 22 | He had not yet been to the Hankses ' cottage to visit Anna , and it was of this the gipsy first spoke . |
| 23 | It was against such a background of innovation that the Plowden Committee began its enquiry into the state of primary schools in England and Wales . |
| 24 | is , there was a big blanket over the door then as you sit here their room was like all the way round to you , and I sat there and the stairs come down , the open stairs come into the room and here is an old brick fire place |
| 25 | I expect he was like all the rest indoors , could n't find his way out of a paper bag . |
| 26 | But in the end he was like all the rest . |
| 27 | I wish it was like this every day ! |
| 28 | Is n't this better for tra would n't you take more would n't you take more notice of the traffic and travel if it was like this every time ? |
| 29 | Anyway that 's all been sorted out and that 's what the problem was with all the work permit riders , coming down in you know , in points . |
| 30 | When he answered it , it was with half a mouth . |