Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] essentially [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paddington was essentially a station for mixed general traffic , but foodstuffs of various kinds formed a large proportion of incoming merchandise . |
| 2 | In common with other scholars we have considered , Durkheim was essentially an armchair theorist who seldom stirred outside his study , or beyond his own milieu , except to give lectures or to participate in learned debates . |
| 3 | Not that this made the county unique , for Tudor and Stuart England was essentially a federation of strongly developed provincial societies in which county patterns of life and social and political allegiances were often far stronger than the tenuous links with a central monarchy in Westminster . |
| 4 | At the time , Sydney was essentially a centre created around a convict population , yet eager to assert its status as the commercial and cultural capital of the continent . |
| 5 | ‘ Chapman was essentially a designer , an artist , who was always looking for the next design , something different , ’ says Mr Nearn . |
| 6 | Although a qualified doctor , Eric Jones-Evans was essentially a man of the theatre . |
| 7 | Charles was essentially a shopkeeper and pig butcher ; he turned his waste animal fats into tallow candles — a foul-smelling process at best — to sell to those who chose not to make their own , and also kept up a bit of a sideline in cheese — a product for which the area was , of course , justifiably famous . |
| 8 | It was impossible to explain to someone like Coleby that the London of London was essentially a metaphor . |
| 9 | Mikhail Vologsky was essentially a loner , in both the physical and spiritual sense . |