Example sentences of "was [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat down on a log and tried to perform what he thought of as the vanishing act , whereby you became insofar as it was possible a part of the surroundings : breathing , seeing , hearing only — merely an aspect of the place , a dimension , like the robin or the moss-covered log or the leafmould on which his feet rested . |
| 2 | ‘ Was that a friend of yours ? |
| 3 | Was that a way of getting his own back ? |
| 4 | ‘ Was that a slip of the tongue , Leonora ? |
| 5 | Was that a note of desperation in Piper 's voice ? |
| 6 | Was that a note of pique in his voice ? |
| 7 | Was that a grimace on Prue 's face ? |
| 8 | Was that a move by the police to undermine the new authorities ? |
| 9 | Was that a sound from the next room , from behind the dosed door ? |
| 10 | Was that a reaffirmation of his opinion of her ? |
| 11 | It was half a tumbler of whisky . |
| 12 | There was half a chance of an equaliser when Magilton got going again to send Penney racing clear , but by then Grimsby had the points in their net . |
| 13 | It was half a mile to the chip shop , so you had to get a head start . |
| 14 | It was half a mile to the bottom of the cliff . |
| 15 | It was half a mile from the nearest village , which had become a haven for retired and commuting stockbrokers since the war . |
| 16 | Sweeney , who was half a bird at that time , whirled round the mountain , he and the Hag , until the Hag dived into the lake , her own navel . ’ |
| 17 | Someone was half a length behind her on her outside but Kelly sensed that she had more in hand than he did . |
| 18 | Was this a reflection on the quality of our care or skill ? |
| 19 | Was this a case of folie de grandeur , in which Britain 's economic recovery was sacrificed to anachronistic ( and unsocialist ? ) attempts to retain a great power stance in the world ? |
| 20 | Was this a way of working on the quality of the strings ? |
| 21 | Was this a trick of the witch 's to keep her there until she could catch up with her , or was it … ? |
| 22 | Was this a miracle in Bohemia ? |
| 23 | Indeed , to stay at the Langham was such a mark of having arrived in the world , that in a nineteenth century fraud case , a witness would declare : ‘ I knew he was a perfect gentleman . |
| 24 | Unfortunately over the years there was such a deficit for whatever reason lot 's of things were tried it was then decided that it was two options one was closing lose so much money or actually put it out to franchise fortunately enough that people were at all the money and we did n't get an income from it . |
| 25 | She has done it much better , and there was such a quantity of it here ; I dreaded the child coming in , as much as others must have done , but for different reasons . |
| 26 | And of course , Medoc would be sure to know if there was such a child in Ireland . |
| 27 | Megadeth 's fifth and finest LP , ‘ Countdown To Extinction ’ slammed its way straight into the upper reaches of LP charts all over the globe ( it entered the US chart at a staggering No. 2 ! ) and its first single , Symphony Of Destruction , was such a hit in the UK that a Top Of The Pops appearance was simply unavoidable . |
| 28 | The news that ICL Plc is to acquire Warrington , Cheshire-based Technology Holdings Plc for a maximum of £40m seems to set the seal on the success of the management buyout team at what used to be the distribution arm of MBS Plc — a business that MBS top management felt was such a drain on its corporate resources that it could n't wait to let the company go . |
| 29 | And there was such a look of stark relief in his eyes that his beloved cousin was safe , after all , that , just for a moment , to hide her own pain , Ronni had to drop her gaze away . |
| 30 | There must have been a cosiness to the street once , but now there was such a sense of decay that Jack could almost smell it . |