Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first thoughts were for an eighteen month old child and an elderly lodger also in the house . |
| 2 | SE claimed that the cylinders were for an Iraqi petrochemical project and that their export had been approved by the UK 's Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) . |
| 3 | The idol of the juniors is Jeremy Guscott , the Lions , England and Bath centre , whose first steps in the game were as an eight-year-old mini-rugby player . |
| 4 | Again , methods for displaying precious substances were of an elementary character . |
| 5 | I was very happy ; and if sometimes the familiarities in our relationship were of an irritating nature ( like the way he teased me , as he had always teased me , about my sticking-out ears , for instance ) I pushed them aside and refused to acknowledge them — even when they were quite important , the sort of things on which the nagging small voice was once wont to pounce as reasons against any positive commitment . |
| 6 | Her mother was leaning back , her head tilted , a faint flush from the wine tinting her cheeks , the tilt of her head drawing the flesh from her chin and jaw , making her look young , younger than her years , and handsome , and , Erika suddenly realised , her eyes were of an exquisite forget-me-not blue . |
| 7 | The interpretation for which both the applicant and the Attorney-General contended before the Court of Appeal was that the answer was affirmative ; either because the proceedings for habeas corpus were so firmly imprinted with a civil character that they were to be treated as civil , notwithstanding the essentially criminal nature of the proceedings from which they arose , or because they were of an indeterminate nature , which section 13(2) ( a ) was wide enough to embrace . |
| 8 | The most recent survey showed that of 1460 journals published in France during 1984 , only 150 were of an international standard . |
| 9 | Reading the two clauses together , the quantification direction did , in our opinion , entitle the defendants to quantification on an indemnity basis but did not entitle the defendants to recover costs , charges and expenses that had been unreasonably incurred or were of an unreasonable amount . |
| 10 | The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years . |
| 11 | Ford were amongst an increasing number of customers who were insisting upon suppliers meeting quality assurance standards such as British Standard [ BS ] 5750 , ISO 9000 [ the international equivalent ] or in Ford 's case , their own Q101 . |
| 12 | These homes were like an unsavoury silo , places to store people rather than house them . |
| 13 | That afternoon we were with an African business man . |
| 14 | You were out of the office , you were at a meeting , you were with an important client and could n't possibly be disturbed . ’ |
| 15 | I should n't even be discussing it , because all the parties were under an overdone oath of secrecy . |
| 16 | The massive pin-sharp image completely fills the five-storey screen and you are there , as surely as if you were in an orbiting Shuttle . |
| 17 | However , they would not necessarily have been conscious of this if they were in an ordinary environment with normal background sounds . |
| 18 | The Kirgiz-Kaisaks ( Kazakhs ) , roaming in areas claimed by both sides , were in an uncomfortable position and from time to time paid fealty to both , meantime raiding on their own behalf and fighting amongst themselves . |
| 19 | The French commanders also were in an indecisive state of shock . |
| 20 | At the end of the war the Works and its men , and indeed the railways as a whole were in an exhausted state , as was the rest of the country . |
| 21 | In the face of a petition such as this , backed by the signatures of 105 of Stockport 's most eminent and respected citizens , the Goldsmiths were in an awkward position , which they decided to resolve by re-reading Sir Edmond 's will , to see what the Founder himself had intended : a classical school ( teaching Greek and Latin ) , without fees or social distinctions , but depending only on a willingness to learn . |
| 22 | We both understood that we were in an extraordinary situation . |
| 23 | And you , Molly Coddle ’ — he smiled at his daughter as though it were all , in some comic way , entirely her fault — ‘ you were in an awful pink plastic carry-cot in the back seat and you never even woke up ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ To say the least , the company were in an impossible situation . |
| 25 | We were in an impossible situation ; whatever retirement age was chosen , someone would be upset . |
| 26 | The type of off-farm work varied but many were in an oil-related industry , working shifts at Flotta oil terminal . |
| 27 | He said the buildings ( the responsibility of the council ) were in an appalling state . |
| 28 | They were in an illuminated yard lined with a row of six red and black pantechnicons . |
| 29 | Daylight showed us that we were in an idyllic sixteenth-century thatch-roofed cottage , set in the immemorial , rolling Wiltshire countryside . |
| 30 | If their origins were in an academic discipline , they are often no longer able to identify themselves with it — or are discouraged from doing so by their more specialised fellows . |