Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terry Long was always a welcome visitor to Selhurst Park , but it was an enormous pleasure to everyone connected with Crystal Palace when he agreed to make a public return here in October 1984 to give recognition to Jim Cannon , who is the one man to have played more games for us than Terry himself did . |
| 2 | A man of simplicity and goodness , as I have said earlier , David Thomson took many of the remarks made by disgruntled locals too seriously , and so was perhaps a little harsh on the Anglo-Irish , or Ascendancy . |
| 3 | However , not merely was there a conflict of medical evidence , but even Dr. D. , upon whose opinion Thorpe J. eventually based his decision , described W. as having ‘ a mild case of anorexia nervosa ’ and that although he ( Dr. D. ) had eventually come round to the view that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit , the decision was quite finely balanced . |
| 4 | As in commercial aircraft , going it alone was never a realistic option . |
| 5 | It has a hollow back with a lead filling and thus was clearly a decorative mount on a cart or large piece of furniture . |
| 6 | Not that Mr Best was ever a pupil there . |
| 7 | The ‘ reserve indicator plan ’ , as it was called , described above was never a very serious possibility . |
| 8 | ‘ between 1 January 1985 and 29 April 1991 in the City of London and elsewhere was knowingly a party to the carrying on of the business of a company called Wallace Smith Trust Co . |
| 9 | And er would you usually Was there a special time of anything that he would be told . |
| 10 | Sadly , the old bitches his mother lined up were only a few years younger than him . |
| 11 | It also was perhaps a trifle ironic that when Charles Manson wanted to have his life story told on film , he instructed his lawyers to get the Easy Rider team . |
| 12 | This also was apparently a joke . |
| 13 | The collections are organised by John Cannovan , department supervisor who stressed that it was a team effort and that keeping the books straight was just a part of it . |
| 14 | She 'd survived , however , and eleven years later was still a resident in a hospice in Sussex , witless as ever . |
| 15 | I recall how disappointed I was in the morning to discover that the pebbles I had collected so lovingly the evening before were just a pile of dull stones now that they had dried and were away from the beach . |
| 16 | The courtyard behind was now a restaurant , and had a tree which Jean Rhys might have remembered . |
| 17 | Trying to find her way back out was obviously a nonstarter but staying here she would probably be spotted fairly quickly . |
| 18 | Geranium though was obviously a good choice because of its diuretic properties — and bergamot for its cheerful and uplifting aroma . |
| 19 | No , it 's too easy to forget that something which I hardly ever think about now was then a very great concern . |
| 20 | The lack of wind , which had been a blessing the day before was now a curse . |
| 21 | I wish I had n't asked , ’ D'Arcy replied , trusting that Victor 's observation really was just a joke . |
| 22 | And as you say at that stage it really was just a matter of erm every man for himself really . |
| 23 | ‘ That really was quite a show you put on tonight . ’ |
| 24 | Now the feat hierarchical feature analysis that we 've done so far was predominantly a bottom up data driven process . |
| 25 | Leviticus was happy with the country , thought here were rather a lot of blacks around . |
| 26 | l here were about a dozen customers , mostly middle-aged men sitting alone reading Evening Standards who only troubled the barman to the extent that occasionally he had to turn down the corner of a page of his Stephen King paperback . |
| 27 | I sat for a while thinking of what I 'd said and of what he 'd told me , and I still could n't believe that any of the people I 'd come to know so well was really a murderer . |
| 28 | Losing his international place two years ago was also a major blow . |
| 29 | Cos , today was really a waste of my time cos there 's only half that do you see . |
| 30 | The funfair we see today was only a small part of the original fairs where the main business was trading . |