Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was nearly half a minute before we took in the situation , and then it was too ludicrous . |
| 2 | It was nearly fatal a year ago . |
| 3 | er , and we were n't very busy , so it was n't such a fag . |
| 4 | Once or twice I 've wondered whether it was n't all a trap . |
| 5 | Sometimes she had to pinch herself to make sure it was not all a dream . |
| 6 | It was just such a surprise to see you here . |
| 7 | yeah an and bra and G-string I went right right , then I said oh by the way I 'm not erm I 'm not doing house swimming this year , I 'm not going to give you the , the pleasure yeah right and they were going oh no you have to do it , you have to do it , I was going yeah right cos I do actually want that again like last year it was just such a nightmare . |
| 8 | They stayed in the bedroom for half an hour or so , talking , looking at the things , talking : and Clara remembered thinking at the time that it was just such a honeysuckle-filtered , sunny conversational afternoon that would in years to come , whatever those years might bring , cause her the most sad and exquisite nostalgia . |
| 9 | It was just such a pattern of alternating brightness and darkness in a two-slit experiment with light that convinced Thomas Young in 1803 that light was a wave-like disturbance . |
| 10 | It was quite hard a smack . |
| 11 | For it was precisely such a measure of reform , heralded in the Prague Spring of 1968 as ‘ Communism with a human face ’ and containing the germ of the industrial co-operative idea , that was denounced as , revisionism' . |
| 12 | Yet it was so great a task that only Zeus , chief of the gods , could master it . |
| 13 | It was so dark a blue as to be almost black , with button-down cuffs and epaulettes and a broad welt that fastened around his hips with a buckle . |
| 14 | As it was so worthwhile a visit , we would like to know where the largest Aquarium is — can you help please ? |
| 15 | To share in it was so distinctive a mark of membership that , in time of persecution in the second and third centuries , pieces of the consecrated bread were taken round to baptized believers languishing in prison or on a sickbed . |
| 16 | Eye surgeons had learned to cut the ligament with complete success , but it was so different a procedure from the rest of the operation and so incompatible with it that they often dreaded it . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was too small a bed because it had to hold the ghosts of Mo Magill and Jenny Maxim 's dead wife as well . |
| 18 | Can I ask is it because it was too small a group , or is it because no one can make up their mind where they belong ? |
| 19 | It was too easy a trick to miss . |
| 20 | It was too nice a day to be burying a young life . |
| 21 | For them it was too good a chance to miss . |
| 22 | It was too good a job to risk doing otherwise , and besides , the cameras were always there , so she had to . |
| 23 | It was too good a place to miss out on . |
| 24 | After several years as a regular contributor and recipient of the irascible Mahor 's voluminous correspondence , he was due to succeed as editor of Cricket Quarterly in 1970 , and was foiled by a change of mind : ‘ he decided that it was too personal a project , and he could n't let anyone else take it on , ’ he remembers . |
| 25 | It was too obvious a record to hail as a classic . |
| 26 | If you fail to get a report in on time , Ego protests it was too tough a deadline . |
| 27 | No doubt it would give Marguerite some comfort to be able to be warm and friendly with Russell 's daughter , but it was too big a price to pay . |
| 28 | It was too big a puzzle and she let it go although it gnawed away at the back of her mind . |
| 29 | He then , after missing , goes on to say how he could of killed it but it was too big a step to be taking . |
| 30 | No , it was too hellish a prospect even to consider . |