Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting the newcomer to the Broken Drum so easily was a stroke of luck , no doubt of it , and Ymor would probably reward him . |
| 2 | Halfway up was a landing lighted by a small Gothic-shaped window with leaded panes — a window fit for a witch 's gingerbread house . |
| 3 | On the whole the trip so far was a success . |
| 4 | Liley had no problems with the conversion from the touchline and suddenly here was a match both of quality and drama . |
| 5 | So here was a chance to create a new sector with a new kind of indulgence , with a product which had the credentials to exploit this opportunity , ’ says Bartle . |
| 6 | So here was a company run by designers , as people might like to criticise us , putting in the most forward-thinking advanced systems for controlling stock , because it was the logical thing to do — the common-sense thing to do . |
| 7 | Further along there was a model of Sir Francis Chichester ; on what was supposed to be the deck of his yacht lay a number of books . |
| 8 | After a few more minutes she became restless , and stood up again , her eyes searching the slope of the hillside and the valley below , trying to determine whether some small movement down there was a man on horseback or merely a trick of her imagination . |
| 9 | Oh you know , do you remember Yvonne saying that that plant down there was a money plant and I did n't know what it was called ? |
| 10 | About halfway down there was a problem . |
| 11 | Well see wha wha down there was a couple there in their leather jackets look , looked a cli couple you know , the boy and girl couple of yobbos ! |
| 12 | Before they sat down there was a moment 's pause . |
| 13 | All round was a hubbub . |
| 14 | Prerecording was possible ; so too were a range of optical and mechanical visual effects denied to the makers of The Time Machine and The Quatermass Experiment . |
| 15 | Kuzmitch did mention that Blake had been unimpressed by the American and British intervention in South Korea but so too were a lot of other people . |
| 16 | Only occasionally was a management 's confidence misplaced in extending credit in any of these ways . |
| 17 | Not only was a loan of 7,000 gold coins made , but the repayment was subsequently remitted . |
| 18 | They asked me if this was the way down , which given my navigational skills thus far was a bit like asking a page three girl to compare Bertold Brecht with Harold Pinter . |
| 19 | ‘ Your face just now was a picture of the most absolute astonishment . ’ |
| 20 | Not simply was a market the only effective mechanism for the exchange of commodities and services in a large-scale modern society ; it was also the foundation of democracy , as it provided the economic independence that made a dictatorship impossible . |
| 21 | Already aboard were a tommy-gun , grenades , a thermos of coffee laced with brandy — they would need this — and the infra-red signalling gear . |
| 22 | I always though was a symbol |
| 23 | But when he woke up there was a gorilla beside his bed … ’ |
| 24 | The last thing she needed right now was a relationship with a man like Luke Hunter … |
| 25 | He says that getting the children out quickly was a priority — fires in houses tend to spread very fast and he did the right thing . |
| 26 | Now here was a boy who listened stolidly while Hugo read to him some of the greatest literature in the world ; who yawned over Villon ; who stared out of the window longingly while Hugo read Maupassant or Flaubert . |
| 27 | Now here was a lady we could do business with . |
| 28 | And now here was a pleasure that was also an irritant . |
| 29 | By the time we got back there was a marquee in the garden . |
| 30 | When we come back there was a card in the door to say he 'd been . |