Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early versions of this package were subject to quite a lot of criticism , mainly because the user interface of dBFast made little or no use of the fact that you were working in Windows . |
| 2 | The NCC survey found that external hacking posed much less of a threat to systems than malicious acts by staff or ex-staff , who were responsible for almost a third of all logical security failures and breaches . |
| 3 | They were two of only a handful of his employees allowed to enter this most private of havens . |
| 4 | What was self-evident from even a casual perusal of the book was how extensively the unreconciled Dominion had influenced the others . |
| 5 | It was possible with only a small selection of gouges to find the appropriate one to fit the circumference of the eyeball , using the gouge on both sides . |
| 6 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 7 | ‘ I was interested in how a mind works that is as analytical and calculating as his seems to be . ’ |
| 8 | Once in a while he spoke , in a pure and reed-like voice that escaped like smoke above the pageant , and was audible to hardly a one . |
| 9 | In my mind 's beady eye it was white with just a soupçon ( had I known the word soupçon ) of scarlet such as I 'd once seen June Allyson sport in a skating sequence in some Saturday morning picture . |
| 10 | But , dear Christ , they could hardly talk : Paddy with his bashed-in nose , the look of a hog and a missing leg ; and the woman — his wife ? — she was lucky for even a guy like him . |
| 11 | ‘ He was ill for about a week . |
| 12 | Earl , a classmate of North 's from the Naval Academy , was privy to quite a lot , including the diversion . |
| 13 | Cytochrome P450 was present in only a small proportion of normal colon samples , whereas epoxide hydrolase and glutathione S-transferase β were identified in about half , and glutathione S-transferase α and γ in most normal samples . |
| 14 | I mean he was married for quite a long time to her apparently . |
| 15 | Visibility was good with just a little light rain here and there . |
| 16 | I was awake for just a little while and I could tell — ’ |
| 17 | He was alone for just a few minutes and I made my offer . |
| 18 | In all of the forested areas sampled by Eyre , commercial lumber production was responsible for only a proportion of the deforestation . |
| 19 | Was able to please a customer . |
| 20 | The A66 was passable with just a light coating of snow . |
| 21 | The steel bars of the cage were enclosed by tarpaulin sheets to protect them from the elements , except for one side , which was open with just a simple lift bar to move before exit . |
| 22 | It was also accepted that an increase in PAF was necessary with perhaps a higher fee for active teachers with an associate fee for non-teaching teachers . |
| 23 | The importance of the riots in pushing the law and order issue , and specifically policing , on to the main political agenda was emphasized by the Liberal leader , David Steel , who argued that ‘ urgent action ’ to prevent a drift into lawlessness was necessary from both a moral and a political perspective ( Hansard , vol. 13 , 26 November 1981 : cols. 1009–11 ) . |
| 24 | I was bad for over a week with my neck ! |
| 25 | I was bad for about a week . |
| 26 | She was silent for quite a long time . |
| 27 | The village was quiet with only a couple of old men sitting on a bench outside the church as we drove through the gates of the big house and along the road through the village , passing the Chateau where the Commando dead had been placed on the front lawn shortly after we had entered the village , and during the bitter fighting of the first ten days . |