Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The powers-that-be were obviously a shade disenchanted with Lt. Vologsky . |
| 2 | ‘ We were just a bit concerned that he was left on his own so late at night . ’ |
| 3 | Things were just a touch grim at the Shakespeare School before it occluded its portals for the vacation . |
| 4 | I was at a dinner other night , er where er French Railways were the hosts , and of course they were doing their best to er tell everybody to travel through the Tunnel naturally enough , because that 's what their trains will be doing come May , and er one or two people , it must be said , were just a touch sceptical . |
| 5 | Perhaps you were always a bit wobbly anyway ! |
| 6 | One of the thousands — Wotai 's is part of T'zin 's tuman , but they have n't served with him for several years , and they were always a bit leery of him . |
| 7 | If you were once a SuperCalc 4 user you may have noticed the omission of Cell Noter when the product was upgraded . |
| 8 | The only modern-design vehicles , apart from the Scottish air-conditioned stock , were possibly the Class 310 electric multiple units radiating from Rugby , and even these dated from the mid 1960s . |
| 9 | they were also a bit sluggish at first . |
| 10 | I mean she 's talking about it and I said well I thought at five they were probably a bit young . |
| 11 | However , in abstract thinking it has always been our habit to assume the role of Ego perfectly isolated from spontaneity ; and even when in theory we have learned to distinguish the play-acting from real life , we are still liable to slip back into thinking as though the agent applying ‘ Be aware ’ were indeed an Ego unaffected by inclination veering with awareness . |
| 12 | Besides , she told herself firmly , this time the sea was merely a bit choppy . |
| 13 | This was obviously the case last January , when the teams fought out a goalless draw in grim weather at Ayresome Park . |
| 14 | It was perhaps a bit thicker than she would have liked , but the weight was about right . |
| 15 | but I said that you know eighteen might be a push but I would n't be surprised if we got twelve or fourteen at that time of course we had n't actually had any education events cos the one that we scheduled has been cancelled so I was perhaps a bit naive about how many people actually turn out to these things |
| 16 | The child was perhaps a year old and was engaged in beating his — or it might have been her — mother about the shoulders with tiny chubby fists . |
| 17 | Rostov saw that none of the leaves which had fallen were withered or had changed colour , and the ground below every tree was covered by a soft carpet which was perhaps a metre thick . |
| 18 | It also was perhaps a trifle ironic that when Charles Manson wanted to have his life story told on film , he instructed his lawyers to get the Easy Rider team . |
| 19 | Ironically it was only a factor due to Australia 's crazy decision to stage the contest in February and March . |
| 20 | Its door was only a metre high and half a metre wide , so I could only just get inside on my hands and knees . |
| 21 | and she was only a bit older ? |
| 22 | ‘ Our son was only a year old and I was still feeling pretty asexual . |
| 23 | It was in excellent condition , was only a year old and cost me £85 . |
| 24 | The car was only a year old . |
| 25 | He was only a year older , but sort of fatherly . |
| 26 | Andy was fourteen , I 'd just turned thirteen and was proud of my new status as a teenager ( and , as usual , of the fact that for the next couple of months I was only a year younger than Andy ) . |
| 27 | The woman who was selling the magnificent object told me that it was only a month old and her old man , who had been killed by the Huns , had paid three quid for it : she was n't going to let it go for anything less . |
| 28 | I , I think it was largely the way most girls were treated . |
| 29 | Franca decided that Alison had probably been drinking on the plane and was already a bit tipsy . |
| 30 | Kinderszenen I felt was somehow a bit disappointing compared to the studied and elegiac reading of Schubert 's great B flat Sonata . |