Example sentences of "[adj] was [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | But surely this was just an aberration ? |
| 2 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 3 | Is that what it is– ’ Or if I was to see the doctor and my girlfriend happened to be seeing the doctor as well , this was just an excuse , according to them , for us to be together . |
| 4 | This was just an excuse : the real reason they wanted to come was that they very much needed food at home . |
| 5 | To Gosse , this was just an appearance ; and his book was ‘ an attempt to untie the geological knot ’ , though it might seem rather to cut it . |
| 6 | Mhm and this was just an innocent party |
| 7 | Figures 2.1 and 2.2 remind us that this was also an era of sporadic , but vicious , feuds between whites and what they saw as the invading blacks . |
| 8 | Conversation thus tended to be laconic and allusive and it sometimes scarcely seemed to possess a thread of connection between one remark and the next : this was however an illusion , seductive enough to a stranger ignorant of background , all the more so to a stranger not fully in command of the language . |
| 9 | And so I decided that this was rather an unfair situation — why should n't women be able to do what a man did ? |
| 10 | I should mention the — dear me — the fee , ’ he added , lowering his voice to a whisper , as if this was rather an impolite word . |
| 11 | I would have thought this was rather an enlightening view to take , but Semites erm , but there we are . |
| 12 | Viewed entirely from a technical standpoint , this was rather an unfair struggle . |
| 13 | What shows that this was generally an unthinking answer , uninformed by any real understanding of interest rates , is that people were just as likely to give this answer whether they thought it would be a percentage of the amount they borrowed , a percentage per year , or even a percentage per month . |
| 14 | Now , on any view , this was both an inadequate and a misleading indication to the driver of the nature of his right under section 8(2) and what the exercise of that right would involve and I agree entirely with the decision of the Divisional Court allowing the defendant 's appeal from his conviction of an offence under section 5 by justices based on the admission in evidence of the breath specimen . |
| 15 | This was probably an exaggeration , though the resentment was understandable . |
| 16 | Some of the crowd attempted to strike up with ‘ We shall overcome ’ but they were interrupted by a police loudspeaker announcement , which was shouted down ; this was probably an order to disperse but very few could have heard it . |
| 17 | The average number of quarrels per hour was three to four , although this was probably an underestimation . |
| 18 | This was probably an exceptional count , as not more than 50–60 have been noted there during estuary counts since 1967 , but gatherings of 60 to 100 are regular now in several places along the coast , for example Bognor pier , and 150 were recorded in the Rye area in the winter of 1972/3 . |
| 19 | Martin thinks that this was probably an oversight on my part and suggests that a simple s.p.s.t. toggle switch should be incorporated in the positive supply from the 9V battery . |
| 20 | Dr Kallman of the Osborn Laboratory in New York felt this was probably an unwarranted addition to the list as its range had not been fully studies . |
| 21 | This was probably an exaggeration . |
| 22 | This was probably an enclosed wood for the use of the lord of the Manor for in the old English the term Hag or Haggs denoted a fenced or enclosed wood . |
| 23 | Staff agreed that this was probably an area which needed improvement and discussion with parents . |
| 24 | This was surely an argument for getting involved in Boiotia , because it was too weak to resist effectively , rather than an argument for leaving Boiotia alone , because it was too weak to make trouble for Athens . |
| 25 | In spite of this , Attlee , who had played a part during the war which was very largely behind the scenes — he had been Deputy Prime Minister and chairman of innumerable Cabinet committees — did ‘ emerge ’ during the campaign as a figure of importance , and this was largely an accidental result of Churchill 's tactics in conducting his own campaign . |
| 26 | This was evidently an important offering , neither cheap nor provincial ; Delos was one of the great sanctuaries of Greece . |
| 27 | This was plainly an international language . |
| 28 | This was admittedly an exaggeration , but he wanted to emphasize the potentially disruptive effect of Robyn Penrose 's presence . |
| 29 | This was primarily an attempt to deal with synonyms which can not be conflated by a rule-based stemming procedure . |
| 30 | They were showing a film , The Life of Christ , and though this was clearly an illusion as well it had taken place in real life , and uncle was very much a believer . |