Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marion Howells and her daughter Kayleigh were asleep just a few feet from a window which was shattered by the blasts . |
| 2 | Ironically perhaps , supplies of some semiconductors which were popular only a few years ago seem to have completely dried up , whereas most valves of around 50 years ago are still available . |
| 3 | Or were these just a few isolated sadists ? |
| 4 | The way it was done , with absolutely no warning , was traumatic for the staff and startling for its subscribers , of whom there were well over a million . |
| 5 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 6 | But erm did that have a message , or was that just a fun thing for you to do ? |
| 7 | Oh was this quite a usual thing for |
| 8 | Was this quite a common thing for the lads in the to do things like this ? |
| 9 | ‘ Except I was intrigued why a scarlet cord should be used . |
| 10 | Perhaps , he concluded , in his letter terminating their correspondence for months to come , it was all just a terrible nightmare which would only be understood later ? |
| 11 | ‘ It was all just a wee misunderstanding . ’ |
| 12 | It was all just a big adventure . |