Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly I was the mature woman , faced with new kids in the workplace . |
| 2 | Naturally I was the slowest , having the most to remove . |
| 3 | For a start , Christopher 's taller than I am so I was the fluffy one … . |
| 4 | Perhaps she was the only one who had got away ? |
| 5 | Although this trio again blended well together it was the tremendous ability of McClure which sealed the ticket to Ayr . |
| 6 | Suddenly it was the Chinese , not the foreigners , who were pressing for a deal . |
| 7 | However , when I got to Liverpool on Thursday and saw the state of the ground , instead of thinking about such horses as Laura 's Beau , Rubika and Cool Ground as the major chances , suddenly it was the good-ground types such as Docklands Express who re-entered calculations . |
| 8 | Apparently he was the National Chairman , which was a bit of a thrill ; on the other hand , he was also a terrific scruff . |
| 9 | Historians have long argued about the ‘ rise ’ of this group , but basically it was the collective experience of nearly fifty individual families who became the pacesetters of Elizabethan Sussex . |
| 10 | My father took one side , perhaps it was the right side and perhaps it was the wrong side . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was the Thirty Years Peace of 446 ; or perhaps there was a special arrangement with Aigina , who may have had her autonomy guaranteed individually , though she certainly paid tribute to Athens . |
| 12 | Now , perhaps it was the poor light but Benjamin 's face paled . |
| 13 | Yet perhaps it was the easy accessibility of English which made it so popular ; it has grown to be the second largest university subject . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was the Mancunian manic depressive bliss that was so alluring . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was the sheer blatancy of her confession . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was the immigrant condition living itself out through them . |
| 17 | Normally she 'd have shampooed his hair twice , but his compliment had rattled her badly , or perhaps it was the deep and husky voice he 'd said it in , and she quickly rinsed the lather off , pulling the towel up over his head to blot excess water . |
| 18 | The bed itself had an old , lumpy mattress which gave off a faint odour of damp or rotting fabric — or perhaps it was the lingering smell of sheep . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was the nagging awareness that he too had hoped to gain more than mere gratification from their acquaintance . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was the universal bond between animal lovers and vets that made it so easy to become part of the community . |
| 21 | My father took one side , perhaps it was the right side and perhaps it was the wrong side . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was the wrong conclusion . |
| 23 | Footballers grew old and fell on hard times , so perhaps it was the same for horses . |
| 24 | After a few moments , Walterkin said , ‘ Perhaps it was the same for him . ’ |
| 25 | Because I thought perhaps it was the same with me . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was the evasive eyes ; perhaps it was the permanent sly grin on the long narrow face which gave the impression that Skerritt was always secretly laughing at him . |
| 27 | He attributes this to the unique chewing methods of the ornithopods , and suggests perhaps it was the flowering plants that promoted the decline of the sauropods and their gizzard-stone type of digestion . |
| 28 | Harry nodded , or perhaps it was the threatening clatter of his teeth which caused his head to simulate assent . |
| 29 | Or perhaps it was the white light shining through the milky angel that erased all the lines from her face . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was the evasive eyes ; perhaps it was the permanent sly grin on the long narrow face which gave the impression that Skerritt was always secretly laughing at him . |