Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mines were once again an ever-present hazard . |
| 2 | It was perhaps originally an oral message from Cnut , committed to writing by an ecclesiastic for circulation to the shire courts , and then redrafted into its present state by Wulfstan . |
| 3 | The Pistols ' spokesperson told NME : ‘ Glen was only ever an outside contender for bass player in the re-formed line up . ’ |
| 4 | From then until the fifteenth century it belonged to de Burghs , de Clares , the Earls of Lincoln , de Lacys , Lestranges , and by the 1300s , when Sir John Talbot lived there , it was already quite an important property . |
| 5 | On his way up the stairs , however , he was once again an unwitting eavesdropper . |
| 6 | The parliamentary party was once more an effective opposition under the continued leadership of Clement Attlee , but with no prospect of reaching power for at least another five years . |
| 7 | In the 1790s Britain was still primarily an agricultural country ; it still appears to be so in the novels of Jane Austen twenty years later , and , after all , even today one could choose a route from East Anglia to Cornwall which would give a foreigner this impression . |
| 8 | At that time , athletics was more genuinely an amateur sport , less the ‘ invisible ’ crock of gold it is today with its often overt forms of ‘ shamateurism ’ . |
| 9 | Apart from some of the actual buildings , little remains in the way of water wheels and machinery , to remind us of what was clearly once an important chain of mills which played an important role in the development of Cheltenham . |
| 10 | Next there was another safe pair of hands : the cheery , avuncular figure of Peter Brooke who was also clearly an interim choice , awaiting the bruiser for the election . |
| 11 | She was as much an old friend as a lover , or future wife … ’ |
| 12 | Because I 'd passed the magical sixty years of age mark , I was now officially an old-age pensioner and that apparently made me technically ‘ vulnerable ’ under the provisions of the Homeless Persons Act . |
| 13 | It was now openly an all-American show , although Robert Mueller , assistant attorney-general , paid tribute to the Scottish police , who deserved , he said , ‘ the most unbelievable praise of any law-enforcement agency in the world ’ . |
| 14 | This victory was to delight the masses just as it brought little pleasure to the newly energized forces of the political left , but , just as significantly , it was now also an occasional delight to a growing audience drawn from amongst critics , intellectuals , and the more respectable classes generally . |
| 15 | When the village was almost entirely an agricultural community then a case can be made , as we shall see , that the close-knit and overlapping social ties produced a situation in which everyone more or less knew everyone else , but we should be wary of sanctifying the agricultural village with a misplaced nostalgia . |
| 16 | Kerr L.J. , delivering the court 's affirmative answer , mentioned the Crown 's arguments , which had included reliance on Lawrence , and the defendants ' concessions that appropriation had occurred and ( in the light of Lawrence ) that the absence of the owner 's consent was no longer an essential ingredient of theft . |
| 17 | In the opening decades of the 19th century Glasgow woke up and found that it was no longer an ancient market place reached by tree-lined avenues . |
| 18 | The flighty girl she had been was graver , and her compassion was real because the suffering of which she spoke was no longer an abstract thing to her . |
| 19 | The hair was no longer an orange porcupine ; the nose had lost its red blob . |
| 20 | News was no longer an illustrated supplement to radio and newspapers . |
| 21 | Camden states that some of the colleges continued until the Lancastrian sack of the town in 1461 , but it was no longer an important university . |
| 22 | But this quasi-sacerdotal character was no longer an important aid to the power of secular rulers . |
| 23 | The issue must have seemed finely balanced at the time , but the troubled history of the prisons in the years that followed suggests that Butler was wrong to have accepted Cunningham 's advice that the Commission was no longer an adequate body to handle the complexity of the tasks to be performed . |
| 24 | By the eleventh and twelfth centuries this was no longer an exceptional case . |
| 25 | She was no longer an unmarried daughter , but a widow , and widowhood represented status , and liberation not merely from spinsterhood , but also from any expectation of fulfilment in marriage . |
| 26 | Brunswick Place itself was definitely rather an up-market location , as the 1881 census makes clear . |
| 27 | Although all the early indications were that the new 3-series was very much an evolutionary product , getting to know the 325i has convinced us otherwise . |
| 28 | Religious music in Venice , in particular at San Marco , was very often music for state occasions and Andrea Gabrieli was very much an official composer . |
| 29 | Mind you , travel was very much an academic thing for me until the television programme and even now I can scarcely say I am a travelled person . |