Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was altogether in a parlous state : the weather was bad , there was no water in the flat ; he did not care to go out at nights and was seeing fewer people . |
| 2 | But they also held that the universe itself was rather like a vast machine , which , once started off , ran according to its own inbuilt laws and patterns . |
| 3 | ‘ He was rather like a new-born baby when he came because of the lack of stimulation , ’ she said . |
| 4 | It was rather like a large belt ; you could probably fasten it about your waist and it would sit snugly over your hips . |
| 5 | Among the Mundugamor , both sexes were aggressive , children were treated brusquely by both parents , and love-making was rather like a pitched battle . |
| 6 | His architectural work was predominantly in a neo-classical manner with the use of domed segmental projections , examples being Doddington Hall , Cheshire , 1777–98 ; Hooton Hall , Cheshire , 1778–88 , since demolished ; Herstmonceux Place , Sussex , 1777 ; and Belmont Park , Kent , 1787–92 . |
| 7 | Nutty thought she was on to a good idea and went home happily , taking over from her mother in the shop as she usually did while her mother started to get the tea . |
| 8 | Jean-Paul was in no doubt that he was on to a good deal . |
| 9 | His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong . |
| 10 | Maybe he thought he was on to a good thing . |
| 11 | Multiply that up by two or three hundred stores , and you will see he was on to a good thing . |
| 12 | it was on at a reasonable volume . |
| 13 | The court had heard that Rhys had now been accepted for a transplant operation at a Bristol hospital and the search was on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |
| 14 | You were always the one that was on about a regular life . ’ |
| 15 | Here was somewhere in a meditative limbo between earthly chaos and spiritual ecstasy ; we could have been on the crystal lake of the Apocalypse , half-way to paradise … |
| 16 | Poverty amongst the lower classes was an expected and accepted facet of societal structure and education was rarely of a good standard , being intended for a lowly station in life , laced with religion and related to prescribing the sanctity of the sabbath . |
| 17 | Quail Eggs Arnold Bennett — perhaps the name should put one off , and what arrived was enough for a full meal , with much haddock , but the sauce was rather thick , reminding one of our party of a school-sanatorium dinner . |
| 18 | ‘ I decided it was sufficiently like a single-lead junction for the public to believe it was one and accordingly that it would not be wise to proceed with the scheme . ’ |
| 19 | It was all over a Brazilian boy who looked after the props . |
| 20 | Take punk , it was all about a tight nucleus of bands who were all mates . |
| 21 | ‘ This was all as a full-time member of staff . |
| 22 | ‘ When George Lynch , Steve Vai and all the others came to see me , it was all within a six-month period . |
| 23 | However it was all in a good cause and , like a lot of these things , fun when you left off and could look back and laugh . |
| 24 | It was all in a good cause . |
| 25 | But the event was all in a good cause . |
| 26 | But the hard work was all in a good cause . |
| 27 | It was all in a good cause however , because they were taking part in a five-day team building exercise . |
| 28 | But it was all in a good cause . |
| 29 | It was all in a good cause . |
| 30 | However , it was all in a good cause as the sponsored walk organised by accounts supervisor Andrena Cowan , raised £1,300 towards the cost of an Ultra Sound Scanner . |