Example sentences of "was [adv] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm I was slowly sort of pulling a few ideas out of thin air . |
| 2 | Well I I was in the east end and of course where my mum and my aunt worked it was mostly sort of cleaning and scrubbing and charring and turning mangles in the back garden and all sorts of things . |
| 3 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 4 | The second was that the UK was effectively part of an increasingly competitive world market so that the monopoly power of the merged firms , and the corresponding social cost of the dead-weight burden , would be small . |
| 5 | She said it like it was somewhere south-east of Sodom . |
| 6 | The second half of this can be seen to coincide with the opinion of Chatterton which is expressed by Ackroyd 's Wilde : ‘ a strange , slight boy who was so prodigal of his genius that he attached the names of others to it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps we could have lunch before you go ? ’ she forced out , as if the idea was merely spur of the moment , merely friendly , merely pleasant . |
| 8 | In the event , as we saw earlier , this did not appear ; there was merely condemnation of attacks on shipping moving to and from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait . |
| 9 | BEFORE THE ROMAN CONQUEST , the region we call Champagne was merely part of a fragmented group of Celtic kingdoms known as Gaul , an area of land roughly equivalent to present-day France . |
| 10 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although ‘ action ’ in section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 was to be construed liberally it could extend only to forms of legal process and did not embrace a statutory demand , the service of which was merely part of the statutorily prescribed procedure for obtaining remedies afforded to creditors by a bankruptcy order and did not of itself initiate legal proceedings ; that a solicitor was therefore not debarred by section 69(1) from serving a statutory demand for payment of his costs before the expiration of one month from the date of delivery of his bill of costs ; and that , accordingly , since the statutory demand and petition were valid , they would be remitted to the district judge for hearing ( post , pp. 1029E–F , G — 1030A , 1031E ) . |
| 11 | Although this is true in relation to the intellectual background from which both Sutherland and Cressey were writing , it is nevertheless the case that Cressey , in particular , was sufficiently part of the positivist tradition to be interested in a precise , quantifiable theory which did not automatically rule out such mechanistic approaches . |
| 12 | But he was sufficiently master of himself to resist , and pulled out of her , his heart thumping like some crazy locked up in the cell of his chest . |
| 13 | The medical school of St Mary 's Hospital , like the other London medical schools , was constitutionally part of the University of London , but was in fact academically isolated , and such research as might be undertaken had no facility for difficult chemical investigations . |
| 14 | The original was acquired recently by sporting-trophies specialist John Bowles , who is trying to trace its origins : ‘ It was originally made in Birmingham in 1891 and was obviously part of a very important piece of cricketing silver , ’ says Bowles . |
| 15 | It was perhaps evidence of some restraint that Elena did not oblige Romanians to praise her for her own inventions , but only those expropriated from others . |
| 16 | The professionalized academic critic wanted to forget that there had been a time when criticism was part of literature ; and the belief that criticism or theory could be literature in themselves was perhaps part of the process of exorcizing other values and attitudes . |
| 17 | The change from an elected Council at Athens to one appointed by lot was perhaps part of the ‘ Ephialtic ’ set of reforms ( pp. 35ff . ) . |
| 18 | It was perhaps part of his general attempt to calm her fears , but it is a potent indication that there was an underlying fear and she was not properly informed that no alternative was available . |
| 19 | The bluffness of Lewis , which before he became a don was only part of his nature ( 'Heavy Lewis ' ) , was fast hardening into a persona . |
| 20 | Mr Patten said the 120-clause bill was only part of the Government 's strategy for the environment . |
| 21 | But death , in itself , was only part of the problem ; for many people , an even more terrifying part was the uncertainty when and how death would come . |
| 22 | That was only part of the story . |
| 23 | Simplicity and ceremonial seem to express the changing pattern of Nonconformist worship but that worship was only part of a wider search for dignity , a dignity which was mainly realized in the new and improved buildings Nonconformity was erecting up and down the country . |
| 24 | As a result , a number of Palestinian intellectuals and development workers began arguing that liberation from Israel was only part of a broader process and indeed unless that broader process , which implied radical economic change , took place no liberation from Israel was likely . |
| 25 | First , that it was only part of a larger scheme , yet Hope had made the point that the new Foreign Office should conform to a larger plan . |
| 26 | Looking back on it , I think it was only part of the painful process of growing up . |
| 27 | But any thought or consideration given to working men was only part of a larger strategy of appealing to the public generally . |
| 28 | But his depression at the failure of the play was only part of a pervasive depression from which he was now suffering . |
| 29 | But revenge , while it would be sweet , was only part of the government 's reason for ‘ taking on ’ the miners . |
| 30 | It was only part of the communications system anyway , nothing advanced . |