Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was well over a year since his sister had married Dunbar and gone off to the West Indies , where , according to her spasmodic letters , she was having ‘ an utterly marvellous ’ time . |
| 2 | It was well over a year before Communist policy changed radically " though it had undergone substantial modification . |
| 3 | For an unpretentious suburban Gasthof it was all rather a surprise . |
| 4 | At the end he asked me about myself , curtly , as if it was all rather a bore . |
| 5 | It was all rather a relief . |
| 6 | It was all just a moment 's mental aberration ! |
| 7 | ‘ It was all just a wee misunderstanding . ’ |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | It was all just a big adventure . |
| 10 | Ruth was beginning to feel it was all just a dream ; part of her mind felt detached , quite separate from her body . |
| 11 | Helen replied enigmatically that it was all just a question of experience . |
| 12 | It was all just a sort of angry joke because the rest of the gang , and Ashton in particular , would n't agree with him about the best way to fill holes in . |
| 13 | But he was n't frightened , because he knew that it was all just a joke , a little comedy of the kind fathers like to play with their sons . |
| 14 | Maybe it was all just a game to him , these stirring pulses and loaded glances , and chemical reactions . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , a self-declared ring-leader , Paul Taylor , shouting from the roof tops , has claimed that it was all just a sit-in protest that got out of control . |
| 16 | He started to smile , teasing me , and for the second time I was convinced that someone would flourish it back to existence , that it was all only a game . |