Example sentences of "[det] was [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for all Dwyer 's optimism , this was just the sort of loose game in which the Wallabies excel and , although they have undoubted talent , the youngsters are going to find things considerably tighter in France . |
| 2 | Earlier that morning Wexford had quoted Justice Shallow and now , as he contemplated Jolyon Vigo 's house , he thought that this was just the sort of place Shallow might have lived in . |
| 3 | This was just the sort of thing Henry wanted to read . |
| 4 | This was just the type of craft possessed by Jack Williamson , the percussion sideman with most of the CBR orchestras , and one Sunday he invited the Windrush crowd for a cruise up Howe Sound and Squamish Inlet to Bowen Island . |
| 5 | This was just the sort of attitude the paper wanted — in another context it would have been a good news story . |
| 6 | Then I realized that this was just the beginning . |
| 7 | This was just the ticket , I thought , sitting on my canvas chair , quietly digesting my cake . |
| 8 | This was just the sort of thing — a secret service playing God — that usually had George registering y on the Richter Scale . |
| 9 | ‘ Little did I know that this was just the tip of an Iceberg , frozen on chat shows , enlarged on British Telecom commercials and now floating treacherously towards me . |
| 10 | But it was good just to lie in the darkness , curled against him , listening to his even breathing , and know this was just the first night of the rest of their lives . |
| 11 | Rubbish , she told herself crossly , this was just the shyness resulting from that stupid dream . |
| 12 | Considering that this was just the period when women were making history , Thompson has got it very wrong indeed . |
| 13 | The report acknowledged , however , that this was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 14 | WITH Justin Fashanu 's black tie do to look forward to on Saturday evening , this was just the result to put the Airdrie players in the party mood . |
| 15 | And we 've now reached a situation in which there 's something over twenty percent of our streets is multiple occupation , erm and this is noise and other activities in relation to that are the things that cause the sort of low level of concern , and this was just the peak on top of that of major aggravation . |
| 16 | But this was n't the London most people think of . |
| 17 | She knew very well this was n't the right face . |
| 18 | I expected to pay for twin-lens versatility with loss of picture quality , but this was n't the case at all . |
| 19 | This was n't the suicide . |
| 20 | This was n't the Dorchester or the Ritz , but it had their ineffable air of serene affluence . |
| 21 | Maybe this was n't the time . |
| 22 | This was n't the worst news . |
| 23 | This was n't the first time it had got me into trouble , but I intended to make damn sure it was the last . |
| 24 | But when I saw Bullitt , I thought , ‘ This was n't the script either , it was all in the director 's head . ’ |
| 25 | This was n't the first time the pin in the tower blew out , it used to happen one in every six mixes . |
| 26 | But this was n't the first time Perkins had been charged with drug possession in Britain . |
| 27 | And he admitted this was n't the first time his feet had come a cropper . |
| 28 | This was n't the sound of young Scotland , this was trance-national , so they called themselves Havanna . |
| 29 | Sadly this was n't the only thing to be nicked . |
| 30 | Yet this was n't the whole picture , oh no , not by any means . |