Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] was a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you really think that was a coincidence-gravity pulling on the Shuttle harder like that so both of you end up doing exactly the same thing ? |
| 2 | You could almost think that was a stereo spread of one performance but if you listen to it on headphones you can hear it properly . ’ |
| 3 | Er , loneliness , I mean , a lot , so many of them deal with loneliness , you 'd think that was a preoccupation of women short story writers , I think . |
| 4 | Do you think that was an attitude to that was erm unique to nursing at the time or do you think erm that possibly girls in other walks of life had the same kind of experience of discipline and demands on them ? |
| 5 | ‘ He may have been a fool , but I do n't think that was an accident . ’ |
| 6 | Xerxes Quintus was a world of farmers , fisherfolk … and of mutants and wild psykers . |
| 7 | No we could n't say nothing because I mean that was a time when you had a good job then , unemployment was just the same in the nineteen thirties . |
| 8 | Maybe someone did think this was a bit strong , and phoned the filth . |
| 9 | Luz being the Spanish for ‘ light ’ , you might think this was a place famous for its luminosity , but Saint-Jean 's Luz has a grimmer origin , in the Basque word meaning ‘ marsh ’ , because the estuary of the river Nivelle on which the town stands was once a swamp . |
| 10 | Director Peter Medak makes the camera focus on Vi 's fierce motherhood , so one understands this was a world dominated by women . |
| 11 | I mean , it it , you know us kids , I mean this was a fortune to us , but I , I do n't mind telling you me dad had it off of us when we got home . |
| 12 | Then Waddell 's alibi , Donald Carmichael , who had said at Meehan 's trial that Waddell had been staying with him on the night of the murder , now admitted this was a lie . |
| 13 | Artemis realized this was a reference to her new stepmother , but she preferred to try and keep dropping her gathered pebbles into the centre of the splash made by the last one she had dropped . |
| 14 | I did hear some buyers indicate that the EUROAIM scheme made it easy to avoid , en masse , many troublesome independents , as they were all grouped conveniently together , but I trust this was a minority position ! |
| 15 | Say that was a tenon there the underneath part of the chair you 're not gon na see drills a hole in there |
| 16 | kiss , kiss that was a quickie , right kiss Stacey , kiss , kiss |
| 17 | There can be no denying this was an issue . |
| 18 | Some say 1972 was a fight to the death , which left Jacklin as the slain gladiator . |
| 19 | It was a game they could win only by losing ; every possibility checked and found empty was a point gained , and with every one discarded their spirits rose towards optimism . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh dear , ’ she said , ‘ you did know this was a fever hospital , did n't you ? |
| 21 | Thibaut IV was a musician and probably the most famous of the aristocratic trouvères , the epic poets of Northern France . |
| 22 | As a result , all four benefited from a Wembley Arena show that was a study in contrasts : Cash 's rockabilly bass , Nelson 's plaintive Texas whine , Jennings 's bad-boy blues and Kristofferson 's world-weary romanticism . |
| 23 | He sought the means to do something quite different , creating it out of himself as he went along — but he hoped for everyone : a way of looking that was a kind of worship . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , I still believed this was a reference to a rival company and , as my attackers never returned , the memory of their dark threats receded . |
| 25 | For all of us listening this was a spur to further ‘ action with the world 's poor ’ . |
| 26 | Only thus , only by pretending unreality , pretending this was a part he acted , could he go on , cross the wild , shaggy grass , go past the black-branched cedar tree , arrive at the porch set in its four Doric columns and insert his key in the lock . |
| 27 | Keith Richardson says this was a game Gloucester had to win … it was a turning point and the players will now be able to relax and play the football they are capable of |
| 28 | Then I heard about the idea of a set of stamps and it seemed this was a way to recognise his work . |
| 29 | Usually , all that seemed necessary was a notice announcing the site was protected , and occasionally some repair or the setting-up of a plain iron ‘ unclimbable ’ fence . |
| 30 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |