Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] was [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know how damp it was this morning . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , we 're just going out to have one , ’ said Penelope , thinking how typical it was that Ianthe should long for such a dull and essentially English thing as a cup of tea . |
| 3 | You were n't doing anything individual it was more communion thing you were making the likes of if it was brown bread you 're all standing rolling up and chaffing brown bread and putting them in tins . |
| 4 | So he ought , thought Sally-Anne , and so he is , and , desperate to change the conversation , to steer it away from dangerous ground , she said , as brightly as she could , through numb lips , ‘ Sha n't we miss the last horse bus home if we do n't leave soon ? ’ thinking how fortunate it was that Stair had not told Dr Neil the other heiress 's identity — Sally-Anne Tunstall might have been a dead give-away ; she really ought to have changed her Christian name . |
| 5 | A panel of medical and scientific experts based them on how likely it was that cancer had been caused by the victim 's working conditions . |
| 6 | But more likely it was some time in London . |
| 7 | I am now sure I was that boy in an earlier life . |
| 8 | I was quite suprised how good he was that year … back heeling the ball to set up at least 2 goals … and the drag back and turn for a goal vs Wimbledon ( I think ) ! ! |
| 9 | Miss Evans replied : ‘ I 'm sure it was that date . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm sure it was that meeting that was scaring him . ’ |
| 11 | Are you , are you sure it was this week , it was supposed to be ? |
| 12 | As far as Diana was concerned it was another set of ‘ velvet hairbands ’ . |
| 13 | Thus , for a particular segment of the rich it was less wealth per se which was of importance , than wealth displayed as a conspicuous distance from the world of practical necessity . |
| 14 | In England for three hundred years after the Reformation there was no official public worship , and even after the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 it was some time before the use of music was actively encouraged by the Church . |
| 15 | After that it was all weather : |
| 16 | When de Lattre had visited Washington in September 1951 it was this theme , ‘ the ability of communist China to invade Indo-China and South-East Asia ’ that the State Department had chosen to stress in their briefing for President Truman and their up-beat assessment of the General who had transformed ‘ an army beset with defeatism into a force which has since won every major engagement against the communist forces ’ . |