Example sentences of "this [adv] [was/were] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This always was a good fire . |
| 2 | By the time she decided that this really was a stupid idea the taxi driver had disappeared into the network of streets , and she had no choice but to gloomily knock on the front door and pray that it did n't mysteriously open of its own accord . |
| 3 | After the storms of bitterness , this really was a tremendous volte-face , but no more than a barometer of the changes within Nancy herself . |
| 4 | On the other hand , disappointment did not drive Nithard to defection : Charles had nicely calculated , just as Lothar had done — and this surely was a prime requirement of successful kingship — whom he could , and could not , afford to disappoint . |
| 5 | In the fifteenth century it had been a practical way of making agriculture more profitable , in the sixteenth it was more likely to create a vagrancy problem as men were dispossessed from the land , and this indeed was a social issue which came to the forefront of public attention in the Tudor period . |
| 6 | ‘ This certainly was an Arab village , ’ the Israeli woman said . |
| 7 | This too was a major piece of engineering , some half a mile long and eighteen feet wide , and making use of an estimated 4,000 oak trees . |
| 8 | Like the NL this too was a secret society and had its headquarters at the same address in licensed premises in Lamb 's Conduit Street , London . |