Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mozart 's Catholicism has not always received sufficient attention and Mr Till 's response to it perhaps undermines some of his other convictions in showing us a Mozart whose genius as a composer was spontaneous rather than intellectual . |
| 2 | In all those appointments he was popular both as preacher and pastor , but he kept up his musical activities , graduating D.Mus . |
| 3 | Although the rectitude which he sought was personal rather than public , this did not mean that public rectitude , which had required that the vacancy at Canterbury should be filled as soon as possible , was excluded from consideration . |
| 4 | It was symptomatic rather than part of the train of thought that led to his decision : Britain , as a great power , could not leave her security in the hands of the Americans , who , however friendly , could veer so unpredictably from generous international collaboration to self-centred isolationism . |
| 5 | Lazarsfeld 's contribution to the development of variable analysis was pivotal both as thinker and as teacher . |
| 6 | Reports reviewed recently by the General Accounting Office showed that capital punishment was more likely to be imposed if the murder victim was white rather than black . |
| 7 | Menippus , the Greek counterpart of Kohelet , came from Gadara in Transjordan ; he was Hellenized rather than Greek . |
| 8 | When it came to it , the fish sold as lanisticola looked , to the discerning eye , quite different — the face was yellow rather than blue , the tail was heavily banded rather than streaked along the rays , and — to my mind the most important point — the upper head profile was quite different : that of the ‘ real ’ livingstonii being very like Ps. zebra , ie a humped forehead above a concave snout , while ‘ lanisticola ’ — as convex from upper lip to top of head , rather like Ps. tropheops . |
| 9 | Production was chaotic partly because equipment had been grossly undermaintained during the war but also because manufacturers were busily hoarding stocks of materials . |