Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [adv] [adj] [art] [noun] " 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 | Er that was really all the advice we could give . |
| 14 | well exactly and that headmaster said about the bully at their school , it , he thought that was really bad the fact he |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Perhaps that was too grudging a position . |
| 18 | NoS had not been hijacked — that was too strong a word . |
| 19 | But that was too big a step for convention to allow . |
| 20 | Harold Wilson taught is that , and I think that was very much an Englishman 's view that this is a lot of obfuscation . |
| 21 | Er but er that was very much the local , er in Victorian times . |
| 22 | I drank two of their barrels of wine , and was still thirsty , because that was only half a litre . |
| 23 | But that was only half the message . |
| 24 | But that was only half the trick . |