Example sentences of "[adj] was [adv] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mhm and this was just an innocent party |
| 2 | And this was n't an Anglican church , erm it was a Baptist church , and when I was seven I understood that Jesus had died for me and then I asked him into my heart and when I was twelve I was baptized , which is the equivalent really of being confirmed . |
| 3 | I should mention the — dear me — the fee , ’ he added , lowering his voice to a whisper , as if this was rather an impolite word . |
| 4 | Viewed entirely from a technical standpoint , this was rather an unfair struggle . |
| 5 | And so I decided that this was rather an unfair situation — why should n't women be able to do what a man did ? |
| 6 | I would have thought this was rather an enlightening view to take , but Semites erm , but there we are . |
| 7 | What shows that this was generally an unthinking answer , uninformed by any real understanding of interest rates , is that people were just as likely to give this answer whether they thought it would be a percentage of the amount they borrowed , a percentage per year , or even a percentage per month . |
| 8 | This was probably an enclosed wood for the use of the lord of the Manor for in the old English the term Hag or Haggs denoted a fenced or enclosed wood . |
| 9 | Dr Kallman of the Osborn Laboratory in New York felt this was probably an unwarranted addition to the list as its range had not been fully studies . |
| 10 | This was probably an exceptional count , as not more than 50–60 have been noted there during estuary counts since 1967 , but gatherings of 60 to 100 are regular now in several places along the coast , for example Bognor pier , and 150 were recorded in the Rye area in the winter of 1972/3 . |
| 11 | In spite of this , Attlee , who had played a part during the war which was very largely behind the scenes — he had been Deputy Prime Minister and chairman of innumerable Cabinet committees — did ‘ emerge ’ during the campaign as a figure of importance , and this was largely an accidental result of Churchill 's tactics in conducting his own campaign . |
| 12 | This was evidently an important offering , neither cheap nor provincial ; Delos was one of the great sanctuaries of Greece . |
| 13 | This was not an effortless process ; considerable effort went into making the new operation successful . |
| 14 | Opportunity for these suspects was difficult to determine — so much more difficult because this was not an official investigation , and he was not a regular investigator . |
| 15 | In general the cosmic gods were represented in human form , but this was not an absolute rule and in some aspects the god might assume an animal or hybrid shape . |
| 16 | This was not an unconscious result of everybody 's inability to be value-free , but an achieved conventional politeness , consciously assumed to avoid giving offence : it also , incidentally , put the burden of being disagreeable on anyone who wished to oppose the unstated assertions . |
| 17 | This was not an unreasonable procedure at a time when poverty was startlingly evident in clothing , household goods — or lack of them — in undernourished faces or rickety legs . |
| 18 | Would it not be preferable , therefore , if the Government , while avoiding any expression of opinion on the merits , advised Parliament that this was not an opportune moment at which to make this important change in the law ? |
| 19 | It is not my intention to discuss medical politics , but as it turned out this was not an unhappy solution , notwithstanding that it married two firmly conflicting beliefs which have continued to operate , sometimes rather awkwardly , side by side , and may do so for many years . |
| 20 | However , this was not an unwilling dependence of the army on the civil service , as few army officers were hostile to the government by professional bureaucrats . |
| 21 | In further discussion , it was suggested that , even though opinion was divided on the merits and on the question whether the abolition of the death penalty would in normal circumstances give rise to an increase in the number of murders , the Cabinet might be able to agree that this was not an appropriate moment at which to take the risk of abolishing the death penalty . |
| 22 | This was not an ecstatic vision of God which laid aside human intelligence . |
| 23 | This was not an uncommon feature . |
| 24 | This was not an uncommon state of affairs : less than a quarter of a mile away , at St Augustine 's , a similarly tense situation was working towards a violent conclusion . |
| 25 | This was not an ordinary day . |
| 26 | Compared with other countries in the OECD , this was not an exceptional proportion . |
| 27 | It occurred to me this was not an ideal arrangement ; I had a funny , cold feeling in the middle of dinner that perhaps we had been wrong to delay matters until this last moment , where there could be no immediate follow-up , when I must leave him the next day . |
| 28 | This was not an unnatural alliance . |
| 29 | This was not an express requirement in the previous legislation , and it is not obvious why it should have been introduced into the new law . |
| 30 | 1 patient proved positive but because the patient was an injection drug user undergoing lymph-node biopsy it was reasonably assumed that this was not an occupational exposure . |