Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] a disaster " in BNC.

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1 This was a disaster , Mungo thought .
2 I hate dress rehearsals , and this was a disaster , but who cares ?
3 This was a disaster of some magnitude , and there was nothing for it but to seek the man out and tell him what had happened .
4 This was a disaster !
5 With only ten days to go , this was a disaster ( not that I 'm blaming the Council — there was probably misunderstanding on both sides ; I had no idea they worked on such a miniscule budget , and they for their part probably expected expenditure in the hundreds , rather than the thousands .
6 This was a disaster , as by then he could barely play and he was retrieved from Naples by a Russian family , who took him home to die .
7 Erm , first the district did it and erm they did n't want it so then it was decided to have , to share it with county and that was a disaster too and they did so many cuts each a year and then county took it over .
8 That was a disaster
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