Example sentences of "was [adv] such [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel 's wife was obviously such a monster , too , that it had to be any good woman 's Christian duty to save him from a fate worse than death , or at the very least to give him a little light relief . |
| 2 | Joyce was just such a case . |
| 3 | ‘ There was every reason for me to suspect that the present was just such a case : the medical cause of the death was perfectly well known to the family — indeed I had sent them a copy of the pathologist 's report . |
| 4 | Oh gawld , prep was just such a nightmare tonight . |
| 5 | yeah an and bra and G-string I went right right , then I said oh by the way I 'm not erm I 'm not doing house swimming this year , I 'm not going to give you the , the pleasure yeah right and they were going oh no you have to do it , you have to do it , I was going yeah right cos I do actually want that again like last year it was just such a nightmare . |
| 6 | Our own first home in London was just such a problem but with a little thought and flair the space can become an outside room in the fullest sense of the word . |
| 7 | It was just such a surprise to see you here . |
| 8 | Waiting in the wings , as he knew , was just such a scheme , which had been produced by a young architect called John Simpson . |
| 9 | The Allon plan was just such a proposal . |
| 10 | They stayed in the bedroom for half an hour or so , talking , looking at the things , talking : and Clara remembered thinking at the time that it was just such a honeysuckle-filtered , sunny conversational afternoon that would in years to come , whatever those years might bring , cause her the most sad and exquisite nostalgia . |
| 11 | It was just such a pattern of alternating brightness and darkness in a two-slit experiment with light that convinced Thomas Young in 1803 that light was a wave-like disturbance . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was just such an anticlimax . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps her husband was not such a shit after all , Blanche thought , just a human being who experienced the same tangled skein of feelings as held her then . |
| 15 | Strauss 's annotations of Hofmannsthal 's libretto are discussed in detail , as is the harmonic structure of the opera which Gilliam identifies as tonal , thus supporting others ' views that Strauss 's next opera , Der Rosenkavalier , was not such a change of tack as it is often represented to be . |
| 16 | There were exceptions , recognised by the statute and the courts , but this was not such a case ; all that could be said was that economic damage , perhaps very severe , might be done to the defendant if publicity were not withheld . |
| 17 | Even if a ‘ member ’ for the purposes of the Lautro Rules ( an assumption which Mr. Beloff said was false ) , Winchester was not such a member as is referred to in rule 7.3(11) . |
| 18 | I think it 's a point that was also raised by Mr in our discussions on Friday , where he said of course , with the advent of the better orbital road around York he f he he felt that it probably was not such a material factor . |
| 19 | And Willi was usually such a tower of strength . |
| 20 | Fay : ‘ Mr Potts , he was ever such a laugh : but when he got in a temper he used to really shout and nobody took any notice . ’ |
| 21 | Tariq , to his credit , said we should take out as many pictures as we could , and taking them out cost 70 which at that time was ever such a lot of money . ’ |
| 22 | It is doubtful whether it was ever such an issue for Wilkins . |
| 23 | Whether or not there was ever such an owner , there is no doubt about the family which held the castle longest . |
| 24 | It 's just that Hubert was always such a fool when I knew him , and I hoped he might have acquired a little common sense in the meantime . |
| 25 | There was always such a lot of scope in hospitals , certainly far more than in the Army sick room . |
| 26 | There was always such an instance . |
| 27 | He was still such a boy . |
| 28 | ( d ) Meech held that the accused was under an obligation to retain and deal with a cheque if he believed that he was under such a duty , though in fact he was not . |
| 29 | Here there was clearly such an assumption . |
| 30 | This was probably such an advance that it completely replaced and earlier form of life , whatever that may have been . |