Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were only an hour 's drive from the front and it was quite frightening to watch the TV and see the Croatian coverage of the troubles , considerably more horrific than what we had seen on the BBC . |
| 2 | Wickham might have commented that his business took precedence over a vote on the future of the chewing gum industry , but his priorities were not a politician 's priorities . |
| 3 | For funerals , the Reverend Bottingley felt , were not a woman 's occasion , they were too hard on the emotions , and on the feet and knees , and he did not like to see women weep in public . |
| 4 | They were respectively a banker 's son , a Junker and a retired army major , and between them they represented the whole range of Junker-middle-class collusion and delusion . |
| 5 | but they were always a bit erm unhappy when they gave up so much time and er there was nobody there to listen to them when when they got there . |
| 6 | We think it would be a sad day if local plans and structure plans were purely a restatement er of P P G three . |
| 7 | ITA powers over programming would make it more difficult , even , to argue that poor performance was wholly a contractor 's fault . |
| 8 | ( This was presumably a wag 's idea ) . |
| 9 | Liza was obviously a man 's woman . |
| 10 | It was obviously an artist 's studio , with stacks of pictures , some completed , some waiting to be framed . |
| 11 | It was perhaps a coward 's answer , and he was honest enough to admit it . |
| 12 | But , as someone had once said to her — she could n't remember who — hate was only a hair 's breadth away from love . |
| 13 | There was only a year 's difference in our ages . |
| 14 | Cecilia could also vividly remember Tina 's first venture at the School and the founding of the commune , the reputation it earned in a place which , after all , was only a stone 's throw — within easy bell-sound — of her own house . |
| 15 | And even if Robbie decided to remain independent , she would visit her family … knowing that Fen was only a stone 's throw away — with his wife . |
| 16 | And Nicky wanted to , it was only a cock 's stride down the road . |
| 17 | When the Renault stopped , the Jaguar was exactly a car 's length behind . |
| 18 | He was just a butcher 's son from Ipswich who had risen to be Lord Chancellor and leading churchman of England . |
| 19 | She wanted to say something , he felt , and the cigarette was just a moment 's loss of nerve . |
| 20 | But this was just a dentist 's waiting room and it made him wonder what the rest of the house would be like . |
| 21 | It was not a child 's room at all . |
| 22 | He gave a little laugh and tightened the hand he had placed on her arm — Sally-Anne had not offered to take his ; that was not a servant 's right . |
| 23 | He was not a lady 's man in the accepted sense , rather he championed and encouraged single women to travel at a time when it was still considered bad form for a respectable young lady to take a shopping trip to London unchaperoned , let alone visit the Continent . |
| 24 | Thereafter she resumed a close relationship with her father , who was not a Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 25 | According to her father they discussed the beliefs of the Jehovah 's Witnesses in May or June of this year and she informed him that she was not a Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 26 | There was no amorous intent about it , because Matt had assured her that Silas was not a ladies ' man . |
| 27 | There was not a poet 's emotion which we did not heartily believe ourselves to share , evoked by the poem but not imitated from it . |
| 28 | According to the W.I. Survey , 1975 , there was once a cooper 's workshop here . |
| 29 | This was once a gamekeeper 's cottage belonging to a large estate . |
| 30 | Did it have any connection with the Castle Museum opposite the court , which was once a women 's prison ? |