Example sentences of "was [adv] the [noun] " 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 overwhelmingly the empire of India . |
| 3 | While some investigators found that oxygen gave direct symptom relief , others suggested that any benefit was mostly the placebo effect of air on the rhinopharynx . |
| 4 | Like many others , the problem was mostly the way she held the baby . |
| 5 | It was mostly the village pub at Bourn we went to , or the similar one at Great Gransden , where we would sit in front of the fire and have a few drinks , and Henry would try to get Rosemary into a corner . |
| 6 | It was mostly the head , and a grubby stub of spine and ribs , and about half the skin . |
| 7 | But it was mostly the Clydesdales . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was rather the reputation of the individual master that brought the students than the particular location or city . |
| 10 | ‘ That was rather the impression that I gathered , sir , ’ the lawyer said with a lift of one ironic eyebrow . |
| 11 | May be I 'm being a little unkind but that was rather the impression I got . |
| 12 | A good example of this can be seen in the area of educational research : before 1944 in England and Wales , education at a grammar school was predominantly the preserve of middle-class children whose parents had the ability to pay , with only a minority of ‘ free-place ’ pupils attending . |
| 13 | That was effectively the end of Liverpool 's challenge , and Spartak confirmed their greater class with a second three minutes from time . |
| 14 | Entertaining such a dream was naive ; yet , compared to Cézanne , who shared the instinct to hide away from civilisation , he was paradoxically the epitome of subtle thought , as his letters increasingly testified . |
| 15 | This was indeed a Pyrrhic victory , because West Indies cricket was assuredly the loser . |
| 16 | The End was somewhere the Rejects would n't have been seen dead , so when I was in my ambitious , conventional mood , that made it more attractive . |
| 17 | Agatha was arguably the daughter of King Stephen of Hungary , or of Bruno , brother of the German Emperor Henry II , or of a half-brother of the Emperor Henry III , or of none of them . |
| 18 | Wright 's winner against his old club needed no hyperbole and was arguably THE highlight of a soccer-saturated weekend when Sky 's £304 million alliance with the BBC clearly came top of the entertainment stakes , if not the viewing figures . |
| 19 | Her son was named John Scott , so he was presumably the child of an earlier marriage . |
| 20 | In the front line Vlasov was noted for wearing the plainest of khaki uniforms without decorations or insignia ; this was presumably the gymnastiorka and sharovari . |
| 21 | What went wrong was presumably the death of Piladu 's son . |
| 22 | This was presumably the reply given to the representative of HQ Army Group E whom Gen Schmidt-Richberg had been instructed on 13 May to send back to HQ 5 Corps at 1400 hrs the following day . |
| 23 | The Eadberht , king of Kent , who was in his thirty-sixth regnal year in 761 ( CS 190 : S 28 ; cf. , CS 189 : S 29 ) , was presumably the son of Wihtred . |
| 24 | That was presumably the District Council 's view at that time , yes . |
| 25 | The ‘ it ’ was presumably the wound rather than the child , but the woman was upset that she had no time to ask if her child would be all right . |
| 26 | Individual rebels , talking much later to the American press , would sometimes profess to be ‘ born again ’ , and this was presumably the hint North was taking . |
| 27 | Hoover , himself , certainly not a callous man , considered that it would be fatal for the Federal government to take over in the field of relief , which was properly the concern of state and local governments with help from private charity . |
| 28 | The latter was properly the business of epistemology and to be excluded from the scientific practice of sociology . |
| 29 | This assumed that women could afford to be economically dependent , which was rarely the case , and offered an individualist solution to what were complex environmental , social and economic problems . |
| 30 | I mean , listening to Duke Robillard was kinda the kiss of approval to what I was trying to do . |