Example sentences of "was [adv] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , Sir John Audley Frederick ( 1851–1937 ) , mechanical engineer , was born in Liverpool 25 August 1851 , the second of three sons ( there was also a daughter ) of John Bridge Aspinall , QC , who was latterly the recorder of the city of Liverpool , and his wife Bertha Wyatt , daughter of John Audley Jee , merchant of Mount Vernon , Liverpool , and descendant of the inventor John Wyatt [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | It was altogether a history of successful preservation of traditional political , social and cultural values by a conservative elite against all odds ; even Caesar 's move to punish Massalia , as the ally of Pompey , did not spell disaster . |
| 3 | ‘ We would have caught him eventually but this time it was thankfully a case of sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 4 | Historians may have drawn gender lines too sharply , but the view that apprenticeship as serious industrial training towards mastery of a craft was overwhelmingly a path for males is essentially correct . |
| 5 | The response — on the day it was revealed she was the voice on the tape — was as staggering as it was overwhelmingly a vote for the Princess . |
| 6 | It was overwhelmingly the empire of India . |
| 7 | How would I know this Marie Savigny was secretly a member of the de Montfort coven , who wanted to come to England to plot mischief , perhaps even murder ? |
| 8 | The contracting industry of the 1950s had not nurtured new talent or new ideas , as happened in the 1930s and 1940s , so that , apart from the Free Cinema directors , it was mostly a case of the same old people trying to make films . |
| 9 | Programmes were mostly serious ; entertainment was mostly a cartoon for children ( ‘ Sindibad and Ali Baba ’ ) which also had some following among adults ; people much enjoyed a Syrian comedy series , and owners of video-recorders would tape it , to replay it for friends and visitors . |
| 10 | With part-time farmers the lack of labour was mostly a problem for those on shift work or those who had difficulty in getting time off . |
| 11 | This was mostly a matter of scale ; Pete 's feeling was that you could n't own such a place , you could only be owned by it . |
| 12 | When Ken was in a bad mood or turned on people who regarded themselves as close friends , it was mostly a reaction to the way he saw himself — a failure to be what he wanted to be most . |
| 13 | In the meantime discontent with the Central Office — which was mostly an excuse for discontent with the leadership — continued to mount . |
| 14 | The marriage was mostly an accommodation of interests ; a convenience . |
| 15 | Although I was sceptical as to the Brighton affair , I could not help seeing that there was rather a look about Mr Wilson sometimes ; for instance when , as occasionally happened , his wife 's leg was too bad for her to go shopping and he went alone . |
| 16 | As Stephen Wood points out in his Introduction to his edited book discussing the de-skilling thesis ( Wood 1982 , 15 ) , Braverman appears to assume ‘ that prior to Taylorism control was not in the hands of management , but was rather a kind of management by neglect ( the laissez-faire method , as Taylor called it ) , in which workers knew more than managers ’ . |
| 17 | It was rather a kind of oligarchy , with a strong hereditary element in its composition . |
| 18 | It was rather a façade behind which classes and individuals with a vested interest in weak and decentralized government could entrench themselves , and also a mere mechanical adherence to established practices and institutions . |
| 19 | Presently a remark of Elizabeth 's started him off on capital punishment , because it emerged that Ivy was rather a friend to hanging . |
| 20 | It was rather a squash at my nana 's house because mum , and I had to share a bedroom . |
| 21 | I knew that she would be feeling timid , and it was rather a climb in any case : comforting for her to come up a flight of steps passing a trellis of gloriously flowering wistaria . |
| 22 | Indeed , throughout the 1960s successive governments were struggling to balance the books and it was rather a case of some years being less bad than others . |
| 23 | It was rather a struggle between housing classes for access to the central scarce resource , namely suburban housing . |
| 24 | So it was rather a question of running the gauntlet when passing over the Sayers ' land . |
| 25 | His mother was rather a stranger to him , so he did n't feel the loss of her so keenly . |
| 26 | Some years ago the teachers of one language pronounced themselves satisfied that at the end of a year the students of it had the capacity for literary reading ; the equally competent and concerned teachers of another language were convinced that their students had achieved no such capacity , and that the process was rather a waste of time . |
| 27 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 28 | And er the rent was twenty one shillings at that time which was rather a lot for a council house so we had , had an exchange down to Street in the where the rent was about seven and six which was a big difference . |
| 29 | There was rather a lot of it , and he had enough work already , dealing with a mass transfer of pilots and ground staff . |
| 30 | What he perceived was rather the state of the doctor and he inferred from this that a change must have taken place at some time before that moment . |