Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] of an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lown and Wolf classified ventricular extrasystoles occurring at a rate of less than one per minute as isolated and of little prognostic significance , whereas those occurring at a rate of more than one per minute were more indicative of an unfavourable prognosis . |
| 2 | They were also aware of an even deeper change in the texture of Christianity : it had become the religion of a warrior nobility whose values and culture it had necessarily to absorb in the process of Christianizing them . |
| 3 | Other relations had been bishops and aldermen , ‘ barristers-at-law ’ , but my father was most proud of an uncle who had invented Aero , a kind of chocolate with bubbles of air in it ( by accident , as it happened ) . |
| 4 | John was so sure of an encore that he rehearsed the girls in a burlesque version of a quartet from the Gaiety Theatre in London , and in a later scene they performed a coconut dance — a long-established feature of theatre and street dance of the time . |
| 5 | She mixed a capacity for love and sympathy with strong practical intuition and the north London motto she chose , ‘ We work in hope ’ , was entirely characteristic of an indefatigable teacher . |
| 6 | However , he was not guilty of an offence because section 14 has no application to statements as to the future , which can be neither true nor false . |
| 7 | On the question of the UN , the Phnom Penh regime was openly wary of an institution which it felt had legitimized the Khmer Rouge claim to power by allowing the CGDK to occupy the Cambodian seat at the General Assembly [ see p. 37041 ] . |
| 8 | It was also indicative of an air of fatalism hanging over Conservative Central Office , a feeling that they had answered all the questions on the examination paper without doing themselves justice and were now awaiting the marks with trepidation . |
| 9 | She was dimly conscious of an overpowering contrast , her female vulnerability against iron-hard male muscle and superior strength . |
| 10 | But I was stupidly shy of an outright avowal , and took refuge in adapting a phrase from the poem , saying that perhaps the ‘ pale lost lilies ’ were not lost after all . |
| 11 | Since I was living with the most out gay man I know , I was n't short of an opinion on anything to do with anything in faggotdom , or at least the social side of it . |
| 12 | Although the fresh night air was welcome , Jack was again aware of an unusual feeling of dread and foreboding . |