Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was altogether in a parlous state : the weather was bad , there was no water in the flat ; he did not care to go out at nights and was seeing fewer people . |
| 2 | But they also held that the universe itself was rather like a vast machine , which , once started off , ran according to its own inbuilt laws and patterns . |
| 3 | ‘ He was rather like a new-born baby when he came because of the lack of stimulation , ’ she said . |
| 4 | It was rather like a large belt ; you could probably fasten it about your waist and it would sit snugly over your hips . |
| 5 | Among the Mundugamor , both sexes were aggressive , children were treated brusquely by both parents , and love-making was rather like a pitched battle . |
| 6 | His architectural work was predominantly in a neo-classical manner with the use of domed segmental projections , examples being Doddington Hall , Cheshire , 1777–98 ; Hooton Hall , Cheshire , 1778–88 , since demolished ; Herstmonceux Place , Sussex , 1777 ; and Belmont Park , Kent , 1787–92 . |
| 7 | Nutty thought she was on to a good idea and went home happily , taking over from her mother in the shop as she usually did while her mother started to get the tea . |
| 8 | His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong . |
| 9 | Maybe he thought he was on to a good thing . |
| 10 | Jean-Paul was in no doubt that he was on to a good deal . |
| 11 | Multiply that up by two or three hundred stores , and you will see he was on to a good thing . |
| 12 | Then it was on to a local botanical gardens to record the ‘ sound bites ’ . |
| 13 | it was on at a reasonable volume . |
| 14 | Matthew Evans was to split his role and that the hunt was on for a new m.d. , rumours that Mr Evans was ‘ bailing out ’ and the company was on the block were fanned by the trade 's more supportive friends at Private Eye and pounced on by publishers overexcited at the prospect of getting their hands on , if not the company , then at least some of its authors . |
| 15 | The court had heard that Rhys had now been accepted for a transplant operation at a Bristol hospital and the search was on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |
| 16 | You were always the one that was on about a regular life . ’ |
| 17 | Here was somewhere in a meditative limbo between earthly chaos and spiritual ecstasy ; we could have been on the crystal lake of the Apocalypse , half-way to paradise … |
| 18 | Poverty amongst the lower classes was an expected and accepted facet of societal structure and education was rarely of a good standard , being intended for a lowly station in life , laced with religion and related to prescribing the sanctity of the sabbath . |
| 19 | Paul Simpson 's goal was enough for a one-one draw . |
| 20 | Quail Eggs Arnold Bennett — perhaps the name should put one off , and what arrived was enough for a full meal , with much haddock , but the sauce was rather thick , reminding one of our party of a school-sanatorium dinner . |
| 21 | Then he said I should see whether that was so after a hundred years in a glass coffin . |
| 22 | ‘ I decided it was sufficiently like a single-lead junction for the public to believe it was one and accordingly that it would not be wise to proceed with the scheme . ’ |
| 23 | It was all over a Brazilian boy who looked after the props . |
| 24 | Take punk , it was all about a tight nucleus of bands who were all mates . |
| 25 | There was n't any huge promotion or hype about the whole workwear thing as some people are suggesting , because it was all about a few people picking up on it and then promoting it off their own back . |
| 26 | ‘ This was all as a full-time member of staff . |
| 27 | ‘ When George Lynch , Steve Vai and all the others came to see me , it was all within a six-month period . |
| 28 | However it was all in a good cause and , like a lot of these things , fun when you left off and could look back and laugh . |
| 29 | It was all in a good cause . |
| 30 | But the event was all in a good cause . |