Example sentences of "was [adv] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theodora realised this was rather a lame attempt on her part to steer clear of what was increasingly looking like a nasty piece of wreckage . |
| 2 | There was something rather reckless in my attending the present lectures at all , because it was in the depths of winter , and from where I now lived it was rather a long walk to the town — over a mile , at any rate . |
| 3 | It was rather a joint discussion of whether it was better to precipitate a strike or the unemployment which would result from continuing the present terms . |
| 4 | ‘ Fenella and I would set out a day later , ’ he said , looking at Fenella and thinking that she was rather a nice sort of companion to be having on a journey . |
| 5 | Remaindering was rather a dirty word in the book trade , and those involved were known as ‘ vultures ’ and ‘ scavengers ’ . |
| 6 | As a matter of fact it was rather a hush-hush sort of business . |
| 7 | ‘ Go safely , Floy , ’ whispered Fenella , who thought it safer not to say more , and then one of the stable hands brought the second horse forward and Floy found , as Snodgrass had , that it was actually quite easy to spring into the saddle and it was rather a safe feeling to be seated astride a horse like this . |
| 8 | It was rather a huge success in sociopolitical terms , in vastly expanding the range of the shareholding classes . |
| 9 | It was rather an ex-Pharisee opponent of the gospel , converted through the direct agency of God and thrust out on the mission at the direct leading of the Lord the Spirit . |
| 10 | It was rather an important event for me in those days , as you can imagine . |
| 11 | The latter has improved again since — he was most a impressive winner on his reappearance at Newbury last month — and with fitness on his side he is very hard to oppose . |
| 12 | It was effectively a semi final as the two group leaders go straight to the final , and it was between England and Spain all the way . |
| 13 | What was effectively a general strike by civil servants and private-sector workers — the so-called " Dead City Campaign " — had virtually shut down most towns from each Monday to Friday since June 24 , with commercial activity resuming on Saturdays and Sundays to allow people to shop . |
| 14 | But this was fundamentally a different issue to whether mentally handicapped people should themselves be in institutions essentially built to treat and care for people in need of constant medical aid . |
| 15 | The levy in mass against the Gauls is still mentioned in the charter granted to the " colonia Genetiva Julia " in Spain in 44 B.C. , when it was presumably a simple piece of antiquarianism , if it did not allude to Caesar 's recent wars . |
| 16 | Lyons was chosen because it was believed to offer a more practical training than Alfort ( especially in the control of cattle plagues ) and was presumably a safe distance from revolutionary Paris . |
| 17 | The right to that appointment was presumably an established perquisite of the chief steward . |
| 18 | The right to that appointment was presumably an established perquisite of the chief steward . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , see , in the mid and late '70s I think the music industry dropped the ball , and I think that 's why there was rarely a good band in the '80s . |
| 20 | In fact , ‘ I shot The Sheriff ’ was merely a Marleyised version of the storyline in a song that The Wailers had used as a vocal showcase since the late '60s , The Impressions ' ‘ Keep On Moving ’ . |
| 21 | ( This had no bearing on the incinerable nature of the occasion ; it was merely a great favourite of us both . ) |
| 22 | In 1988–89 Mantes produced no speciality films — it was merely a weak echo of Swindon . |
| 23 | Another important aspect of this is the issue of whether community economic development was merely a palliative measure with limited potential for addressing the problems of unemployment and deprivation experienced in areas such as West Belfast . |
| 24 | It was merely a new version of an old horror , less tenable than the dreams of childhood , a more rational , more adult terror . |
| 25 | She had the joint X-rayed on Wednesday night and was somewhat relieved to learn that it was merely a bad case of bruising . |
| 26 | The impact of the BUF on British society in the 1930s was small ; it was merely a minor irritant for the government . |
| 27 | The Association of Chief Police Officers ( ACPO ) claimed that the NRC was merely a convenient device for guaranteeing effective mutual aid for overstretched forces . |
| 28 | I told myself that this was merely a self-set problem in human engineering . |
| 29 | A statement released by the FIS on Jan. 13 maintained that the High Security Council " was merely a consultative body with no right to assume power " . |
| 30 | Yesterday , however , his deadly spell was merely a generous layer of icing on the cake with Leicestershire looking already doomed to failure at 86 for five . |