Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the event was even more profound than that , because it was also an explosion of the four dimensions ( as well as , it is thought , a number of others , which almost immediately ‘ rolled themselves up ’ so that we do not recognize them as such — the matter and energy involved being only a secondary consideration ! |
| 2 | At the same moment , NAM 's ‘ workshop ’ stopped being effectively a deep store and the Anson restoration could spread out . |
| 3 | ‘ I only took a quick look , he 'd been dead a long time , it was n't nice , and yet — it looked like Uncle Mosse . ’ |
| 4 | And wheeling them to the ship you know , then after you 'd been there a long time , well my father was a down below and I went to his shop then you see . |
| 5 | His gingerish stubble I imagined was not a natural growth but a product of choleric distemper . |
| 6 | The ending of wartime controls over the economy when peace came was not a popular cry , whatever the Conservative Party and business interests may have thought . |
| 7 | The path we followed is only a short section of the 560-mile Ulster Way , which takes in most of the province and requires a good three weeks to complete , but this section of the coastal path can be completed in a couple of days , though longer is highly recommended . |
| 8 | The existence of an ether in space had been a highly controversial issue with scientists until 1951 , when Nobel Laureate , Paul Dirac , affirmed that the ether he thought existed was essentially an all-pervading sea of electrons in random motion . |
| 9 | What Anselm needed was not an intimate friendship , but an understanding of an external aim which he was bound to support . |
| 10 | Edith arrived one evening at a local hotel for what she thought was just a companiable dinner party amongst friends in very pleasant surroundings . |
| 11 | Well that was another thing , one of the new first-aiders we 've got , erm did n't know where the accident book was and I thought was quite an important thing that would probably have been brought up |
| 12 | In the 19th century an anthology was made of all the surviving T'ang poetry and someone complained that what he saw was only a meagre yield from the vast harvest of its origin . |
| 13 | This I knew was not a sexual invitation but a protection against the evil eye . |
| 14 | Raising the £6.5 million , ‘ the largest sum ever attracted by a radical project in Britain' according to the publicity blurb , had been either a heroic achievement by selfless , dedicated humanitarians or the blag of the century . |
| 15 | She had told him how Karen had gone half stupid over Mallachy , when it had been just a one-night stand , a one-night stand that did not , in the event , come off . |
| 16 | At first , like her many other activities , the home maintenance course at the Adult Education Centre had been just a desperate device to take her away from the boredom of George . |
| 17 | At that time the settlement of Cape Town , which had been just a small staging post on the voyage between the Netherlands and the East Indies , was beginning to grow , but although the English had occupied the Cape in 1806 , the white population remained mainly Dutch until the arrival of many new settlers from Britain in 1820 . |
| 18 | But it had been just a momentary longing for something she seemed destined never to have . |
| 19 | Aisha had been both a tribal companion to the Sheikha and a ‘ nanny ’ to her children . |
| 20 | On April 25 this reported that the security forces were to blame for provoking violence from what had been previously a peaceful crowd by making baton charges . |
| 21 | Belmodes had been around a long time . |
| 22 | For only I and one other person in that courtroom knew the truth , knew that the hand which had dispatched William had been neither a female hand nor a male one , but the hand of a terrible neuter thing ! |
| 23 | There was a tendency for the highly born to be preferred to the prince bishoprics of Germany ; and in the tenth and early eleventh centuries training to knightly pursuits had been almost a necessary qualification for a successful German bishop . |
| 24 | Merseyside or Tyneside there had been almost a general deindustrialization . |
| 25 | According to The Famous Grouse Director , Matthew Gloag , the company 's interest in the next year 's tournament in Edinburgh had been almost a foregone conclusion due to the enormous benefits of having been involved in the 1991 World Cup . |
| 26 | Tamar sat and talked quietly , telling her Uncle about her life and about Victoria , who had been only a small child when he had last seen her . |
| 27 | But there had been only a small decrease in mental hospital beds and little sign of a significant shift to different forms of care . |
| 28 | Ensign Piper had been only a short time in Australia when he volunteered for duty in the convict settlement on Norfolk Island . |
| 29 | Though she had been quite a successful model herself Arlene had never reached those giddy heights — the thought that now a pupil and protégé of hers might achieve it made her prickle with excitement . |
| 30 | It had been quite a good summer in some ways . |