Example sentences of "[adj] was [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Patrick Eggle assured me that this was just a spooky coincidence , and even that some players had remarked upon a tendency for the bottom string to slip off the bridge , so he was going to move it anyway . |
| 2 | Perhaps this was just a new form of indigestion . |
| 3 | ‘ This was just a small leak from a valve on the side of the tanker , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ This was just a small leak from a valve on the side of the tanker , ’ he said . |
| 5 | This was just a tempting addition to that . ’ |
| 6 | This was just a quick note . |
| 7 | But this was just a shrewd touch that came off . |
| 8 | And this was just a beaten track ? |
| 9 | This was n't a major catastrophe , and it only took a minute to rectify , but it 's a clear case of poor quality control . |
| 10 | But of course this was n't a personal call to her . |
| 11 | ‘ Look , ’ she said , ‘ I told you this was n't a real book . |
| 12 | This was n't a nice court room , with attorneys in their best suits reading off nice white paper . |
| 13 | But this was n't a normal situation . |
| 14 | ‘ This was n't a one-man show , you were as much a part of it as I was . |
| 15 | This was n't a social call . |
| 16 | He 'd replied that this was n't a sound reason , and anyway he 'd only die on her . |
| 17 | This was n't a fair challenge , Harry being more than a head taller than Sam and built like an ox . |
| 18 | This was n't a surgical strike , this was a massacre . |
| 19 | I did realise that this was simply a preliminary romp — an hors d'oeuvre — and I kept the forthcoming main dish in mind . |
| 20 | This was rather a dull film . |
| 21 | Theodora realised this was rather a lame attempt on her part to steer clear of what was increasingly looking like a nasty piece of wreckage . |
| 22 | We thought that this was rather a superficial document , containing many forecasts which seemed to be based on inadequate data or questionable assumptions . |
| 23 | After a time it became known in other faculties that this was rather a special lecturer and people reading classics or history or the sciences took the trouble to go over to Ramsey 's lectures and swell his class . |
| 24 | I thought this was rather a shrewd point . |
| 25 | For many , the roads debate therefore rested on measures of speed restriction and road safety , but with 2 million motor cars on British roads in 1939 , and urban congestion a growing problem , this was scarcely a satisfactory situation . |
| 26 | This was probably a pagan feeling in a religious form . |
| 27 | Maybe by then Miller had more than enough work to do at Chelsea ; no comment on the matter occurs in the Minutes of the Apothecaries ' Garden Committee and this was probably a private arrangement between the Duke and the Chelsea Gardener . |
| 28 | As late as 1792 , Sir Robert Ainslie , Murray 's successor , complained that by not being called on to mediate in the peace negotiations which had just produced the Russo-Turkish treaty of Jassy he had lost the opportunity to make about £30,000 in presents from both sides , though this was probably a great exaggeration . |
| 29 | If ever there were special circumstances to justify the LTA 's request , this was surely a good example . |
| 30 | The confused picture was not helped yesterday morning when Miss Widdicombe was asked in an interview whether this was surely a special case for extra payments and replied : ‘ Why is it special ? ’ |