Example sentences of "was [adv] such a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would employ if it was just such a small thing . |
| 2 | ‘ I loved Thunderbirds — it was just such a weird TV programme — there was nothing else like it . |
| 3 | I wanted to tell her that I was just such a silly creature and could n't believe that I would ever be warm again . |
| 4 | The 1895 workshop of Alfred Morgan , undertaker and funeral furnisher of 2 Craven Buildings , Wych Street , Strand was not such a far cry from the confusion witnessed fifty years earlier by Oliver Twist in Mr Sowerberry 's establishment . |
| 5 | This last was not such a great risk , because most of the stage staff were needed on the Prompt Side at that point in the play for a forthcoming scene change . |
| 6 | It was not such a great step in reducing him to the laws-giver . |
| 7 | Although introduced during the World Cup , it was not such a revolutionary advance as had been claimed . |
| 8 | It was not such a good day for Waverley , Edinburgh 's third side in the last eight . |
| 9 | The correct character may often have a lower confidence because it was not such a good match with the Freeman database . |
| 10 | Obviously a transfer of allegiance in the feudal way was much less of a strain than the submergence of a national spirit , and there was a great difference between the national spirit of Englishmen and the allegiance to the King of France or to the Great Moghul felt by the inhabitants of New France and of Bengal ; if the inhabitants of Bengal had felt that they were citizens of the nation of Bengal it would hardly have been possible for them to change to feeling they were Englishmen , but for them to feel that they used to owe allegiance to the Nawab of Bengal and now owed it to the British businessmen who had conquered the Nawab was not such a difficult transition . |
| 11 | In fact , Kaptan was not such a bad boy . |
| 12 | This was not such a bad thing at this stage . |
| 13 | Their minds were obviously not on meteorological work , and as the squadron gradually decreased in numbers with each little batch that left for home , farewell parties were a regular occurrence in the office and I began to think that perhaps Binbrook was not such a bad place after all . |
| 14 | The idea of a small group of men setting off into the desert to travel hundreds of miles behind the enemy lines was not such a hare-brained scheme as might be thought . |
| 15 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 16 | Certainly we just told them what the problem was , told them that there was ever such a nice quarry further down the road if they wanted to visit a slate quarry . |
| 17 | My friend the builder ( I met him , once , and he was ever such a nice bloke ) had been most creative in his choice of rubble . |
| 18 | And this was always such a quiet close . ’ |
| 19 | And it was always such a happy Lab . |
| 20 | North America was still such a young country in 1700 that it will be more useful to look at Europe during this time . |
| 21 | It was n't such a young face any more . |
| 22 | If it was n't such a poor country , in necessary debt to America — remember the invasion of Grenada ? — and the vagaries of the bauxite and tourist industries , this would be an Eden of mango and banana trees . |
| 23 | And er , one way to , to get people to stay on the land is to introduce some sort of , what we might call market disciplines , if that was n't such a dirty word , er , into the government , the government sector where there are clear inefficiencies . |
| 24 | He had never been able to hit the animal but he knew how to throw a punch , and the Punk was n't such a good mover as Cobber . |
| 25 | So it seems that 22–1 was n't such a good price after all : - ( . |
| 26 | Or schools get very excited by computer-assisted learning , ordering equipment and retraining teachers — only to find that the pupils , so full of enthusiasm three years ago , have totally lost interest , while the ‘ experts ’ are once again suggesting that it was n't such a good idea after all . |
| 27 | Her nervous system melshed with the dirigible 's , which was n't such a good idea since two of the four motors suddenly cut out and the right-side viewcam blanked . |
| 28 | ‘ This was n't such a good idea , your coming , Ruth . |
| 29 | 0–0 was n't such a good result after all , IMHO . |
| 30 | ‘ But Frank , ’ she begged in a trembling voice , ‘ it was n't such a terrible mistake ! |