Example sentences of "[adj] was [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This was probably such an advance that it completely replaced and earlier form of life , whatever that may have been . |
2 | This was so serious a threat to their efficiency , especially in wartime , that officers and NCOs had to spend much of their energies in checking and forestalling possible efforts by their men to desert . |
3 | This was so severe a problem that in the early twentieth century a petitioner to the asantehene protested against such death duties and said they had |
4 | This was too wide a loophole for the tax planners : no wonder inheritance tax is called a voluntary tax . |
5 | It is now clear that this was too simplistic a view . |
6 | This was too good a thing to be distracted from by pique . |
7 | Miss Thorne did n't think this was too good an idea but time was precious , so she agreed . |
8 | This was too good an opportunity to miss because Alan had fished Hope for many years and knew every inch , intimately . |
9 | This was too good an opportunity to miss . |
10 | This was too good an option to miss and in April 1989 the building was ordered . |
11 | This was as good an excuse as any . |
12 | Tiller was a stickler for cleanliness , so she was told to be strict in supervising their washing ( for some this was as novel an experience as appearing on stage ) . |
13 | But this was meant to be a family day … and they came in their thousands … the Shetland Pony Grand National was as big an attraction as the thoroughbred races . |
14 | The political turmoil in England following the deposition of Edward II was too good an opportunity for Bruce to miss , even though the truce of 1323 still had nine years to run . |
15 | Our easily found gite at Trans-en-Provence was about half a mile from this road . |
16 | Here was a man who would have no trouble with women , Jane thought , strong and handsome , but cruel — perhaps cruel was too harsh a word , but hard certainly , it showed in the set of his mouth . |
17 | Er that was really all the advice we could give . |
18 | well exactly and that headmaster said about the bully at their school , it , he thought that was really bad the fact he |
19 | But I think the number that went back , you know because of the small workforce the fact that eight or nine returned to work , you know that was virtually half the workforce in one quarry , it made it quite awkward then . |
20 | Her mother 's contemptuous sniff meant , Judith knew , ‘ What can you expect from a goy ? ’ but that was too familiar a piece of bigotry to provoke her into argument . |
21 | Perhaps that was too grudging a position . |
22 | NoS had not been hijacked — that was too strong a word . |
23 | But that was too big a step for convention to allow . |
24 | Harold Wilson taught is that , and I think that was very much an Englishman 's view that this is a lot of obfuscation . |
25 | Er but er that was very much the local , er in Victorian times . |
26 | I drank two of their barrels of wine , and was still thirsty , because that was only half a litre . |
27 | But that was only half the message . |
28 | But that was only half the trick . |