Example sentences of "[noun] was [adj] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would n't matter if you were at home and lunch was half an hour late . |
| 2 | ‘ This is a country , my dear gentle brother , my dear monkey who sees no evil , hears no evil , speaks no evil , a country of cowardice and brigands , and no one in between , except , and the hero was such an exception he had to be … . ’ |
| 3 | The persons solicited in this way reacted with annoyance , perhaps indicating that they supposed that they were being solicited for the purposes of prostitution ( the magistrates having found as a fact that ‘ it would be impossible for anyone so touted or solicited without enquiry to appreciate the purpose of the solicitation , and that a solicitation for this purpose in the circumstances of time and place was such an affront that it might provoke a breach of the peace . ’ ) |
| 4 | The first of these statements was such an insult to my intelligence that I wanted to punch Mr Kinnock on the nose , and the second so downright outrageous that I wanted to do something worse . |
| 5 | IT SEEMS only yesterday that falsetto singing was such an oddity that mention of it surfaced in a Marx Brothers film in order to give Chico Marx a chance to observe , ‘ My aunt , she got-a falsetto teeth ’ . |
| 6 | In the first half of this century William Beveridge was such an individual . |
| 7 | At a non-denominational school in the west end of Glasgow a head teacher explained that the maximum time to be spent on homework was half an hour . |
| 8 | It is not difficult to understand why Berlioz was such an admirer of this opulently scored work . |
| 9 | Between the gates and the big double doors was half an acre of lawn ; the driveway was lined by poplars . |