Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many researchers considered MT to be an extension of the code breaking techniques developed during World War 2 , whereby foreign languages were little more than a complex coding of words and translation required merely the use of a bi-lingual dictionary . |
| 2 | The RUC men who had conducted the police investigations were fiercely indignant and a senior officer threatened to resign . |
| 3 | So I was wrong when I thought they were fantastically healthy and a good advert for the Jungle . |
| 4 | The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was of this kind , although the four explosions that took place at its climax were so stupendous that a separate type of eruption , the Krakatoan , is sometimes referred to . |
| 5 | The critics were already dubious that a six-foot plus , coloured battering ram called Dublin could tilt the title balance for Fergie ! |
| 6 | All in all , secondments were richly rewarding and a great source of satisfaction to the secondees . |
| 7 | Well i it were like a proper , er i in fact , they were more professional than a proper salon . |
| 8 | She must have been sixteen or seventeen summers old , tall and slender , and her eyes were as blue as a clear summer sky . |
| 9 | Her eyes were as dark as a rotten egg , and a tear of blood ran down alongside her nose to the corner of her mouth like a symptom of regret . |
| 10 | Her eyes were as wide as a frightened fawn 's as she gazed up at him . |
| 11 | His blue-grey eyes were as cold as a Siberian winter , and Polly felt as though she had been impaled by twin icicles . |
| 12 | ‘ The authorities in Northern Ireland were quite satisfied that a substantial amount of explosives was in the area , and it might only be a matter of time until this sort of activity was renewed . ’ |
| 13 | Steve Gaughan mustered his side 's first real effort after 35 minutes , a long range shot which Nigel Adkins saved at the foot of his post , but two minutes later they were almost level when a powerful Nick Cusack header from an Andy Toman cross was going into the bottom corner until Adkins somehow pushed the ball away . |
| 14 | For us , the Sixties were never more than a distant rumour overheard on Radio Caroline . |
| 15 | His skill on the ball meant that he was occasionally useful in an inside berth , but the Palace were seldom more than a struggling outfit while he was with us and it is doubtful if many Palace fans ever saw him at his best . |
| 16 | Many of them believed that they were failing to find jobs because they were too old and a large number of the older respondents had become reconciled to the prospect of never working again . |
| 17 | Black was bitterly disappointed after a disastrous batting collapse threatened to ruin the old boys ' Schweppes debut . |
| 18 | It was most fortunate that a young Cambridge biologist called Mark Pryor was extricated by the powers that be from a searchlight unit and sent to Farnborough to take over this work . |
| 19 | The room was poorly furnished but it was spotlessly clean and a cheerful fire blazed in the blackened hearth . |
| 20 | Our most disastrous Rannoch cottage was little better than a derelict shack , owned by an hotel in Aberfeldy . |
| 21 | A Roman legion was somewhat larger than a modern peacetime brigade in the British Army — six thousand troops . |
| 22 | The risk involved in the defendants ' operations was so great that a high degree of care was expected of them . |
| 23 | When a national newspaper first published Mrs Travers ' views , the response was so great that a whole page had to be given over to readers ' letters . |
| 24 | The contemporary concern was so great that a Royal Commission on Population was set up in 1944 to examine the problem of Britain 's declining rate of population growth . |
| 25 | The sequence was then interrupted by a flood that was so devastating that a new start had to be made and again kingship had to be ‘ lowered from heaven ’ . |
| 26 | What proved particularly shocking in this instance was that the licensing of firearms was so haphazard that a 16-year-old Whitechapel youth , who had already stood trial on a charge of wounding his 16-year-old girlfriend with a revolver , could obtain a licence at a later date without even having to show proof of his age . |
| 27 | In the event , the task was so large that a small group would not have been able to cope with it alone . |
| 28 | He had noted the recurrence of surnames among deaf people and deduced it was highly probable that a considerable proportion of deaf people in the country belonged to families which had more than one deaf member , and suspected that the reasons for this were hereditary . |
| 29 | Mr Symington 's campaign was mildly cleaner until a recent commercial that finished with a picture of Mr Goddard being locked behind bars . |
| 30 | However the weekend was just more than a low key steam event at the Centre at Derby Road for the Centre was also providing one half of the motive power , the two passenger coaches , and operating staff at Preston Docks in connection with the Steam Fair staged as part of the 1992 Preston Guild Celebrations . |