Example sentences of "was [adv] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ We would have caught him eventually but this time it was thankfully a case of sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | It was rather a kind of oligarchy , with a strong hereditary element in its composition . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So it was rather a question of running the gauntlet when passing over the Sayers ' land . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There was rather a lot of it , and he had enough work already , dealing with a mass transfer of pilots and ground staff . |
| 13 | The Renaissance had provided western Europe with a handsome collection of hitherto lost Greek texts , literary , philosophical and historical , to be studied by scholars , admired by the cultivated ( generally in translation ) , and imitated , in part , by contemporary writers ; but insofar as the Renaissance was actually a " rebirth " of anything past , it was predominantly a rebirth of Rome and the spirit of Rome , not of Greece ; and the remains of Greek antiquity were treated , and well into the eighteenth century continued to be treated , largely as if they belonged to some kind of extension of the now assimilated world of Rome . |
| 14 | He described this as " grossly inadequate " and said that this was effectively a symptom of the basic unreasonableness of the contract . |
| 15 | Here it was effectively a form of non-elected local government , which had access to greater resources than Glasgow District Council . |
| 16 | The draft reply contained one threat to report I M R O to the Securities and Investment Board for excessive enquiries er and for an unreasonable attitude and the other er bit of the reply was effectively a form of covering up presenting full financial information and disclosure to I M R O. Those replies were drafted by people inside the Maxwell organisation and you may want to comment on er the position , although I should stress at this stage that I like you have not seen the final version of any reply and I do not know whether I M R O persisted . |
| 17 | The movement was arguably a result of cultural changes affecting not only Britain but America and Europe . |
| 18 | She picked it up and saw the name Jarrett Keach flowing across it in brown mock handwriting which was presumably a facsimile of Jarrett 's own signature . |
| 19 | While the Romantic artists challenged materialism at the emotional level , the exponents of Naturphilosophie argued that the material world was merely a projection of a deeper , spiritual reality . |
| 20 | Four fences out , Llewellyn made his move , and from the next it was merely a question of whether Party Politics could hold on or whether Romany King could peg him back . |
| 21 | Providing you had memorised the five scale patterns and the associated chord shape for each one , it was merely a question of finding the chord shape in whatever key/position was required , and the appropriate scale fingering would follow . |
| 22 | It was n't a matter of if they would return ; it was merely a question of when . |
| 23 | In the 1890s the British botanist H. B. Guppy , who specialized in the study of oceanic islands , began to argue that dispersal was merely a function of time : the oldest genera were the most widespread , whatever their powers of dispersal . |
| 24 | Human progress through the conquest of the environment was merely a continuation of the evolutionary process that had encouraged the traditional virtues of industry and enterprise throughout the ascent towards humankind . |
| 25 | Also , how unemployed people were presented in the media was criticised ; however it was agreed that this image was merely a reflection of the views of the Tory government . |
| 26 | The hon. Member for Thurrock asked whether I did not know that if one took economic resources from one area and instilled them into others that was merely a way of upsetting the ordinary economic mechanism and that it did not result in any advances . |
| 27 | This was merely a way of saying that herring dishes will be available to shoppers on Saturday courtesy of the country 's Consulate . |
| 28 | However , the diplomacy which really mattered had always been that of sovereign states ; this final withering away of the claims of other entities to conduct some sort of foreign relations of their own was merely a kind of necessary tidying-up , the clearing of an undergrowth of quasi-diplomacy . |
| 29 | It was merely a framework of broken , blonde walls , barely knee-high , like the shaft of a huge well , a shell withdrawn into a corner of the great room . |
| 30 | Doreen 's eyes continued to dart from one to the other ; then she made an attempt to put Lucy in her place by reminding her that she was merely a member of the staff . |