Example sentences of "was [det] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Was that a friend of yours ? |
| 2 | Was that a way of getting his own back ? |
| 3 | ‘ Was that a slip of the tongue , Leonora ? |
| 4 | Was that a note of desperation in Piper 's voice ? |
| 5 | Was that a note of pique in his voice ? |
| 6 | Was that a reaffirmation of his opinion of her ? |
| 7 | It was half a tumbler of whisky . |
| 8 | There was half a chance of an equaliser when Magilton got going again to send Penney racing clear , but by then Grimsby had the points in their net . |
| 9 | Was this a case of folie de grandeur , in which Britain 's economic recovery was sacrificed to anachronistic ( and unsocialist ? ) attempts to retain a great power stance in the world ? |
| 10 | Was this a way of working on the quality of the strings ? |
| 11 | Was this a trick of the witch 's to keep her there until she could catch up with her , or was it … ? |
| 12 | Indeed , to stay at the Langham was such a mark of having arrived in the world , that in a nineteenth century fraud case , a witness would declare : ‘ I knew he was a perfect gentleman . |
| 13 | She has done it much better , and there was such a quantity of it here ; I dreaded the child coming in , as much as others must have done , but for different reasons . |
| 14 | And there was such a look of stark relief in his eyes that his beloved cousin was safe , after all , that , just for a moment , to hide her own pain , Ronni had to drop her gaze away . |
| 15 | There must have been a cosiness to the street once , but now there was such a sense of decay that Jack could almost smell it . |
| 16 | There was such a variety of activities and competitions for all ages — tennis , windsurfing , dinghy sailing , table tennis ( some of which had free instruction ) . |
| 17 | This fact , and the limited spread of settled land suggested in Chapter IV , do much to explain the lack of vocal protest about settlements which was such a feature of the early modern counterpart of the Roman settlement . |
| 18 | The draughtsmen were by this time becoming separated from the engineers , in that specialization which was such a feature of all aspects of life in the age of science . |
| 19 | This kind of higher popularization was an aspect of the specialization which was such a feature of the nineteenth century , and since . |
| 20 | Indeed , there was such a degree of integration between the two that even modern Spain retains a powerful element of Orientalism within its cultural makeup . |
| 21 | And how could Dr Neil , who was such a man of sense , tolerate such a … nodcock ? |
| 22 | And yet the end of the Second World War was such a celebration of the defeat of the fascist enemy that there was a failure to grasp the fact that the universal Enemy had merely been rehearsing for Armageddon . |
| 23 | Undoubtedly , there was such a reservoir of unregulated behaviour in Dicey 's day . |
| 24 | ‘ Never , perhaps , before was such a suit of mourning seen to distinguish the mourner-in-chief ; no long black cloak , no scarf , no hatband , no gloves … |
| 25 | Professor Wilkinson said it was not ‘ disregarded ’ — as the Independent claimed on Friday — but ‘ given a low rating because it was such a piece of opportunist propaganda ’ . |
| 26 | He was such a tower of strength . ’ |
| 27 | As the majority ( and Pope Paul too ) was most anxious both to carry the minority with it and not to seem to be in any way undermining the Roman primacy , there was such a lot of qualifying done in the course of the final formulation of the text that , as it stands , it reads a little weakly . |
| 28 | Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ . |
| 29 | It was such a waste of a little stone house with a wooden porch and a view across the county as well as down the craggy rocks of the stone quarry . |
| 30 | ‘ As it was such a waste of time , you presumably wo n't want to come , ’ Mum had said , trying to keep her face straight . |