Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [be] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was on his way back from Kensal Green to Paddington , on his way back from discovering in Zohra Labrooy at least one friend of Heather 's who was prepared to be an ally of his . |
| 2 | Rather someone who was prepared to be an accomplice to murder . |
| 3 | It should be noted that a similar order of precedence exists in Ashton 's Scènes de Ballet as in Petipa 's The Sleeping Beauty which was supposed to be an evocation of a court ballet at the time of Louis XIV . |
| 4 | The Eddie Aikau was supposed to be an annual event , but it had not been held in three years for want of perfect conditions . |
| 5 | This was supposed to be an anonymous piece of shit-stirring , and look what you 've done ! ’ |
| 6 | She had forgotten this was supposed to be an adventure , an experience her life lacked . |
| 7 | She was supposed to be an experienced sailor . |
| 8 | Theodora wondered if there was supposed to be an agreed format for this sort of information but failed to detect any . |
| 9 | For a child a hundred years ago , the family was likely to be an extended one , including aunts , uncles , cousins and grandparents as well as parents and siblings . |
| 10 | Certainly at that time it was accepted that a political career was likely to be an advantage for a barrister aspiring to a judgeship , though it was important that his seat should be safe , as no government would wish to run the possibility of diminishing its strength in the House . |
| 11 | ‘ The result of that was certain to be an unbalanced economy , under-equipped , under-skilled , inflating and increasingly importing . |
| 12 | It was satisfying to be an ant . |
| 13 | The child struggled gamely on to page two but Seemed to suspect that , after a page turn of this quality , anything else was liable to be an anti-climax . |