Example sentences of "was [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wood was mostly of hardwood — oaks , beeches and elms — with an occasional small clump of conifers undergrown by a mass of rhododendron . |
| 2 | My view was mostly of the aluminium saucepans dangling from a rail above the range . |
| 3 | The decor in the low-ceilinged room was mostly of wicker and bamboo , with plenty of foliage washed by a green light so vivid that its effect was one of utter unreality . |
| 4 | When he did speak , it was mostly of the very distant past , remembering his brothers as boys . |
| 5 | She was right of course , he knew that , but her words hurt just the same . |
| 6 | He was right of course , Carrie thought , and as she nestled the child to her and placed the teat of the bottle against the child 's searching mouth she bit on her lip and tried to suppress the anger which welled up inside her . |
| 7 | She was right of course . |
| 8 | Blanche was right of course . |
| 9 | Instead the rule was rather of parallel-cousin marriage ( father 's brother 's daughter ) . |
| 10 | It was predominantly of a country , not a ‘ high ’ style , pre-eighteenth century and frequently not French , factors which tended to keep Paris-based buyers away while proving too pricey for local people . |
| 11 | Moreover , movement into the village was predominantly of people born within a few miles of its borders . |
| 12 | Sometimes when they were in a needy mood , which was most of the time , David would be out in the lobby at Advision Studios where we were recording , and they would be cuddling and cooing and wooing — it was disgusting . |
| 13 | It was only a pound a time including tea and biscuits ; fifty pence for OAPs , UB40s , students and disabled , which was most of us in Claro . |
| 14 | When nobody from the long list of eminent organizations which had registered their opposition could be present , however ( which was most of the time ) , the burden of maintaining a presence and regular cross-examining was left to a few stalwarts . |
| 15 | Every time she missed the ball — which was most of the time — she became more angry . |
| 16 | He was most of the day at Hilderbridge police station . |
| 17 | At that time our position was most of the way across the galaxy from the sector where the planet Vadinamia lay . |
| 18 | Well not so much cheaper cos I was most of the time I was doing it for nothing anyway . |
| 19 | She was down on her knees , finishing off the doorstep ; an apron made from some coarse sacking was protecting her plain black dress , her legs were clad in thick black wool stockings and her feet were shod in heavy , much mended shoes — second-hand into the bargain , as was most of her servant 's clothing . |
| 20 | Like other people , Richard Pearson recalled the attraction that simple , conventional family life held for Ken — the bachelor who was so very confirmed in his status was most of the time frightened of anything else . |
| 21 | It was most of them was local men but a lot of the Westray men and used to come too and help out . |
| 22 | w well not over her but , but really , really really chummy yeah , and I thought and he 'd just been saying how pretentious she was most of the evening most of the afternoon I mean . |
| 23 | And from that centre of chivalry , the Burgundian court , came the nobleman Jacques de Lalain in 1448 , to challenge James , brother of William earl of Douglas , ‘ neither for hatred nor envy nor any evil wish whatsoever , but to do the greatest honour in his power to one who came of such high descent , and was besides of such great renown and courage , that he desired his acquaintance more than that of any lord in the said kingdom of Scotland ’ . |
| 24 | Poverty amongst the lower classes was an expected and accepted facet of societal structure and education was rarely of a good standard , being intended for a lowly station in life , laced with religion and related to prescribing the sanctity of the sabbath . |
| 25 | This was regardless of the unpopularity or obnoxiousness of the views that were being expressed — and protected . |
| 26 | But the unpublished manuscript , given to Tom Poole , was destroyed in 1931 by Gordon Wordsworth , who evidently regarded the subject of adultery and murder as too sordid even for the twentieth century.4 The effect on Coleridge of what Tom Poole had told them both was perhaps of most significance . |
| 27 | He found it difficult to have any sympathy for Katherine Lundy in this instance ; this situation was entirely of her own creation . |
| 28 | Atkins 's major contribution , however , was entirely of her own making . |
| 29 | The Christian religion was naturally of the greatest importance — the Master was in Holy Orders — but the Latin Vulgate had been replaced by the English of King James 's Bible . |
| 30 | This city was naturally of great strategic importance : much of the communication between Francia and the eastern Mediterranean seems to have passed through it in the sixth century . |