Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [was/were] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So presumably that was quite a popular piece of er legislation ? |
| 2 | Perhaps that was just a case where , in the early stages of the life-cycle , corporate managers acted more like private consumers than industrial purchasers of large-scale equipment . |
| 3 | Erm but obviously that was only a two metre mix . |
| 4 | So that was quite an experience and quite a contrast from er life in good old England . |
| 5 | So that was indeed an location . |
| 6 | Perhaps this was just a new form of indigestion . |
| 7 | Perhaps this was merely a ruse to trick them into a crossing at Forteviot . |
| 8 | So this was quite a mission which I believe has not been adequately covered in the history and was a forerunner of things to come and like I say we got through that mission without any damage , our gunners got to shoot at the first German fighters and we were an experienced crew with one mission under our belt . |
| 9 | Variations of units having the same name meant that sometimes there was easy money to be made , buying big chauldrons and selling small ones ; but usually this was only a minor nuisance , entailing conversion tables and making international communication a little more difficult . |
| 10 | Well now this was quite a while . |
| 11 | Originally this was merely a method of putting pressure upon the tenant , but the distrainer has had , since the end of the seventeenth century , a power to sell the goods and so pay himself , the surplus ( if any ) going to the owner . |
| 12 | ‘ You know very well that was just a — a flash-in-the-pan reaction — I felt threatened — it was just self-defence . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah well that was just a comment , silly . |
| 14 | Eh well that was just a fucking example ! |
| 15 | Well that was only a . |
| 16 | The last shop , the post office stores , closed about seven years ago — even that was once a chapel no longer in use , but there is still the pub , the Eagle . |
| 17 | But surely this was just an aberration ? |
| 18 | Yet this was also a society with its own code , its own strict tempo of liturgical observances , its own rituals of rank and solidarity , honour and shame . |