Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd decided he was most likely an agronomist attached to an Antarctic survey team . |
| 2 | Marx 's son-in-law Edward Aveling was so great an enthusiast that his death was noted in Wisden , and nearer to our own times C.L.R. James attained guru status to West Indian followers of both Leon Trotsky and George Headley . |
| 3 | It was perhaps half an hour to an hour later that the Sheikh 's Mercedes drew into the parking lot and a man got out . |
| 4 | By this time Stirling had disappeared and they needed to find him as there was only half an hour of darkness left . |
| 5 | Arthur Peeble had three quarters of an hour allowed for his dinner , but Nan Henderson 's dinner break was only half an hour . |
| 6 | The friend in Italy was only half an answer . |
| 7 | Cameron was already half an hour later than Alexandra had budgeted for him to be . |
| 8 | Indeed , it was just such an incident which precipitated a crisis last week when the High Commissioner for Refugees suspended UNHCR operations in frustration at Serb action . |
| 9 | It was just such an anticlimax . ’ |
| 10 | It is doubtful whether it was ever such an issue for Wilkins . |
| 11 | Whether or not there was ever such an owner , there is no doubt about the family which held the castle longest . |
| 12 | There was always such an instance . |
| 13 | The May sunset was red in clouds , and there was still half an hour to twilight . |
| 14 | And when Phil Newport was run out for seven Worcestershire were well down the road to their 90 all out — extras top score of twenty one — and it was still half an hour to lunch . |
| 15 | Here there was clearly such an assumption . |
| 16 | This was probably such an advance that it completely replaced and earlier form of life , whatever that may have been . |
| 17 | It was nearly half an hour later that the doorbell sounded again . |
| 18 | ‘ Your ten minutes was up half an hour ago , Clare . |
| 19 | In one was a fat , broad-faced man ; the body perfect and soft , as if just dead ; the lid had been glewed together , lengthways , and the weight of the earth had prest down his nose ; his beard was about half an inch long ; the winding-sheet was crape , tied with black ribbons ; and the thumbs and toes with the like ; the date was composed of small nails ( 1665 ) by which it appeared he had been dead seventy-two years ; as were also the figure of an hour-glass , death 's head , and cross bones . |
| 20 | There was about half an hour when It was impossible to sleep because of the noise of military aircraft |
| 21 | Oh , and bu by the way Margot was about half an hour late for work that morning and that was the story that we got . |
| 22 | In his own sphere , Keynes was as great an adventurer as Lloyd George in his , and I doubt whether the old Liberalism or the new was entirely safe in his hands . |
| 23 | Mr Heseltine , its chief architect , was one of the first to dump it , especially when he fought the proposal of Consortium Development to build a town whose name was as instant an invention as its community would have been : Stone Bassett , like Consortium 's Tillingham Hall before it , was turned down by Mr Ridley , who was not the permissive planning minister he was often thought to be . |
| 24 | ‘ We thought it was as good an excuse as any and we were all able to get away at the same time . |
| 25 | This was as good an excuse as any . |
| 26 | That , she thought , was as good an idea as any , and on silent feet she went as swiftly as she had come back to her kitchen . |
| 27 | He was as good an advertisement for vegetables as I 'd ever come across . |
| 28 | It was as satisfactory an interview as I have conducted in that , it being entirely non-controversial , question and answer flowed without interruption or the need for retakes ; and in her assessment of Airey Neave both as friend and politician she seemed entirely relaxed . |
| 29 | But this was meant to be a family day … and they came in their thousands … the Shetland Pony Grand National was as big an attraction as the thoroughbred races . |
| 30 | It was as fine an afternoon as you could wish for as I slowly descended to Malham Beck , the Cove coming into view on my left as I walked down . |