Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 If everything was uniform then the beam diameter would go on decreasing .
2 It is to say that there was available neither the will nor the means to drive through the revolution which would have established Owen 's new order .
3 The Truman administration was widely condemned for allowing the " fall " of China , although , as Secretary of State Dean Acheson pointed out , there was little more the US could do for Chiang — short of direct intervention by US forces in the civil war .
4 DURING the months of March , April and May , while at Verdun the Germans were painfully inching forward towards the summits of Le Mort Homme and Côte 304 , in the world outside there was little enough the belligerents could find of positive comfort .
5 There was three there the other day .
6 It was twelve o'clock the funeral was a usually at .
7 It was well over a year since his sister had married Dunbar and gone off to the West Indies , where , according to her spasmodic letters , she was having ‘ an utterly marvellous ’ time .
8 It was well over a year before Communist policy changed radically " though it had undergone substantial modification .
9 For an unpretentious suburban Gasthof it was all rather a surprise .
10 At the end he asked me about myself , curtly , as if it was all rather a bore .
11 It was all rather a relief .
12 It was all just a moment 's mental aberration !
13 It was all just a wee misunderstanding . ’
14 Perhaps , he concluded , in his letter terminating their correspondence for months to come , it was all just a terrible nightmare which would only be understood later ?
15 It was all just a big adventure .
16 Ruth was beginning to feel it was all just a dream ; part of her mind felt detached , quite separate from her body .
17 Helen replied enigmatically that it was all just a question of experience .
18 It was all just a sort of angry joke because the rest of the gang , and Ashton in particular , would n't agree with him about the best way to fill holes in .
19 But he was n't frightened , because he knew that it was all just a joke , a little comedy of the kind fathers like to play with their sons .
20 Maybe it was all just a game to him , these stirring pulses and loaded glances , and chemical reactions .
21 Meanwhile , a self-declared ring-leader , Paul Taylor , shouting from the roof tops , has claimed that it was all just a sit-in protest that got out of control .
22 He started to smile , teasing me , and for the second time I was convinced that someone would flourish it back to existence , that it was all only a game .
23 It was all only an excuse .
24 It was eight o'clock the following morning when Ben came back from the town .
25 and er , it was bad enough the , the last one , erm , and I started with the Corporation when they opened at Turlings in that , that was in nineteen forty eight
26 It was three o'clock the following morning when Tilly Mulliver was woken from a shallow sleep .
27 he was alright still a bit stupid , but he was n't as bad as he is in class
28 When he was angry then the Yorkshire surfaced again in his voice , the grate of the harsh streets of Leeds .
29 he was Vietnamese presumably the comments were of a racist nature ?
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