Example sentences of "it [was/were] a particularly [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is that the small river or stream was low one night as it was a particularly dry period , the innkeeper deposited the body as per usual , but by the morning it had not drifted away . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't say it was a particularly pleasant experience — it 's a bit hairy wandering through waist high vines that could be full of black and brown snakes ! ’ |
| 3 | So Rob 's instruction was that he put them in those files and I did n't think it was a particularly good idea because everything 's easier to find if it 's in the envelopes that we 've put them in . |
| 4 | It was a particularly memorable night for Frank Thurmond . |
| 5 | Det Insp Tom Henry says it was a particularly nasty incident and a stupid act for anyone to do . |
| 6 | A police spokesman said : ‘ It was a particularly nasty crime , picking on a woman in distress . |
| 7 | It was a particularly bitter blow for Leeds , because in the very first minute they should have levelled the tie . |
| 8 | It was a particularly elusive bird — the ‘ most shy and difficult to procure ’ — that Gould had ever come across . |
| 9 | The Royal Navy became a popular career for Scots in the eighteenth century , from about the period of the American Revolution onwards , and it was a particularly apt choice for a gentleman of small means for it was a less expensive profession than that of an army officer . |
| 10 | I would n't say it was a particularly woman-centred experience but I did feel confident in the skills of the midwives and the doctors and knew that there were all the necessary facilities should anything go wrong . |
| 11 | I think it was a particularly sneaky trick frankly . |