Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura and Ross were such an outstandingly good-looking couple , and obviously so very much in love . |
| 2 | Nor was this a peculiarly Frankish problem : similar conflict had already been seen in the hostility between Sigistrix and Sigismund 's second wife , in the kingdom of the Burgundians . |
| 3 | ‘ Was this a quite normal thing for your uncle to do ? ’ |
| 4 | Nor was this a purely archaic problem : the border trouble with Megara in the 460s may reflect population pressure in the Corinthia . |
| 5 | After nearly a decade down under he was overdue an entirely Australian subject — the Board of Control having disappointed him by refusing to let him write their official history : ‘ This is the one major cricket book still to be written in Australia . |
| 6 | When people guess at the calorie content of a portion of food they tend to underestimate the calories in meat and cheese , mainly because there was such a deeply entrenched fallacy , persisting for so many years , that ‘ protein foods ’ like this could not possibly be fattening . |
| 7 | She did not want to tell Connor that she had a private plan in mind ; it was such a very long shot , and might come to nothing . |
| 8 | What a lasting pity it is that Sir Julien himself , so passionately devoted to the game , was such an abysmally poor performer . |
| 9 | It was such an utterly unexpected development that his mind could not register any immediate reaction beyond amazement . |
| 10 | This was one of the many reasons why he was such an immensely likeable man . |
| 11 | The domestic market was long a relatively protected market and , for many companies until the 1980S , the principal market — the European Community and the French-speaking world beyond , notwithstanding . |
| 12 | ‘ It was all a very pleasant surprise , ’ museum director Siegfried Salzmann told a Moscow news conference . |
| 13 | It was all a very sudden call to action . |
| 14 | To an old and faithful servant of the ultramontane papacy such as Ottaviani , it was all the most absolute madness . |
| 15 | There was evident a very strong determination on the part of Prof. Barker to remove all obstacles likely to prevent agreement being reached and , in the course of a subsequent conversation with Elvin , he said that he had recently come to the conclusion that it was of primary importance that the WEA should have the full assistance of the Extra-Mural Board in all its work throughout the whole of this District . |
| 16 | They were , fortunately , not identical , though why I should be pleased they were unidentical I do n't know , as identical twins are conceived of the same coupling ; unidentical very often of two separate couplings , and so far as I was concerned the less sexual congress Hugo and his Stephanie had the better . |
| 17 | There was first a very thin volume in French , a bound pamphlet , anonymous and privately printed , Paris , 1932 ; it was entitled De la communication intermondiale . |