Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] a bit of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a bit of a problem . |
| 2 | This was a bit of a bombshell , but after determined encouragement from the chaplain the party managed to sing several verses of ‘ The Church 's One Foundation ’ , and were , in fact , rather pleased with themselves as several members had been able to put in the tenor and the bass . |
| 3 | He was known to abscond from the ward — this was a bit of a nuisance as there were only two nursing staff on duty at any one time . |
| 4 | This was a bit of a poser , but Sally-Anne , never at a loss , said , thinking of kind Uncle Orrin who would surely look after her and her three younger brothers if anything happened to Papa and Mama , ‘ An uncle took them in , but he said that he was n't prepared to keep a great girl , and that I must fend for myself , and find employment , which I have done , ever since . ’ |
| 5 | After a long silence the mother said , ‘ That was a bit of a surprise visit . ’ |
| 6 | That was a bit of a shock , cos I was dreaming about summat about a train and Marie going away , and then suddenly I came to and found myself in the station . |
| 7 | Use , for example , ‘ How did you think that went ? ’ rather than ‘ That was a bit of a disaster , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 8 | Oh yes , that was a bit of luck . |
| 9 | That was a bit of an exception , as it was sent to the first Independents Exhibition in New York and , as is the case with all the Independents exhibitions , there was no hanging committee . |
| 10 | As Johnson put it : ‘ You could say that was a bit of ‘ luck ’ , in inverted commas ! ’ |
| 11 | And that , and that was a bit of a all year so that 's , that passed . |
| 12 | That was a bit of luck for you , was n't it ? said Dorothy . |
| 13 | Oh that was a bit of fun was n't it ? |
| 14 | And er , as there were seven of us you can imagine that was a bit of a problem . |
| 15 | Yeah that 's a big and my and that stuck out the bucket like that , well going over the top we had a hood over the top tumbler to stop the flashing , so my father stopped , thinking that was a bit of wood and were gon na break the top of the tumbler , so he stop and out and scrubbed it and found that was this bone and I think if my memory serve me right that 's in the , the Fleet Museum now . |
| 16 | about erm , you know early marriage and all this sort of thing and erm that was a bit of a puzzle because erm , nobody knew really what |
| 17 | Yes , I thought that was a bit of flab that we 've got |
| 18 | If one person 's on duty , you would a situation where really that was a bit of risk quite often , and er , it 's not an acceptable thing but er , I totally agree we need to agree very carefully if one 's wise to whether the initial staffing is adequate or whether it is case a of people not having |
| 19 | point , okay that was a bit of wide ball but I might have taken offence at that . |
| 20 | And that was a bit of a nice little deadline the pressure was on . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , that was a bit of an obsession , I 'm afraid . |
| 22 | That was the second time this afternoon he had mentioned Seville and that was a bit of a coincidence . |
| 23 | ‘ Sorry , that was a bit of an insensitive remark to make , ’ she said , recalling that Steve certainly had a catalogue of failed relationships trailing in his wake . |
| 24 | So that was a bit of a giggle ! |
| 25 | but I tell you what you know the mark two , have you ever displayed a coder and it rings , rings the bell when the intercom rings , rings the bell if the trunk 's designed to ring and all that , you know when you get the , you put a call on hold and it comes back and it goes brr , brr , brr , the bell starts going ding , ding , ding , a right noise and apparently that 's standard in the system I think that was a bit of an oversight to be honest with you |
| 26 | I 'd say I 'd say that was a bit of , that was erm a gross exaggeration erm |
| 27 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |