Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His temperament , in fact , was rather more a golfer 's than a racing driver 's and I ca n't be sure that the likes of Arnold Palmer and other big sportsmen who 'd made good in the States were n't in some way role models for the young Mario . |
| 2 | And Chipping Field was rather like a , like a sort of prototype for Harlow New Town . |
| 3 | This was most probably a reflection of the common grazing systems found in those areas where all farmers were accustomed to working together . |
| 4 | Joseph was most probably a mason , carpenter , cartwright and joiner . |
| 5 | Most fell in line with the view that The Smiths would one day produce the perfect artifact and that ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ was most definitely a step in the right direction . |
| 6 | For all the world too as though a man who everyone knew — even his cousin who did n't work with him — was a workaholic , had never taken work home , it was most definitely a bit much . |
| 7 | These were old hands , and Dawn Run was effectively still a novice . |
| 8 | Are there steps through which we can begin to learn again what was so clearly a part of the New Testament church 's experience ? |
| 9 | Whereas his beard was so clearly a compensation , a making up for unachieved virility , Gyggle 's beard was positively rampant , priapic . |
| 10 | She started to say that to her this sounded more like Khrushchev , and she stopped herself again ; the line was so clearly a proffering of comfort . |
| 11 | That was why the launderette was so evidently a good investment . |
| 12 | In a land where survival was so nakedly a prime instinct , food supplies were the key that opened local hearts if not minds . |
| 13 | It was so obviously a panic reaction that it fooled nobody . |
| 14 | It was so obviously a tactless question . |
| 15 | Since political bias was so much a characteristic of the press we might expect its influence to be more apparent in terms of attitudes than perceptions , however . |
| 16 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 17 | He was so much a part of her that she never needed nor wanted to examine too closely the nature of her feeling for him . |
| 18 | As for his goodness , the attempt to live a Christian life was so much a part of Irwin 's public persona that the legend became current that , arriving in India on Good Friday , he ignored the official ceremonies of welcome and went straight to church . |
| 19 | Even the presence of the very famous actor indeed who had undertaken the part of Macbeth was hardly noticed ; after all he was so much a part of the English scene as to be , very nearly , taken for granted , though his performance was , as always , brilliant . |
| 20 | He would n't have minded the meanness of only allowing one glass each , if it had n't been that the reception was so timed as to prevent that vital half-hour in the pub before closing time , which was so much a part of the necessary wind-down from giving of himself in performance . |
| 21 | Abrams argued that traditional neighbourliness will not survive and that its passing is not to be deplored , because it was so often a reaction to adverse social conditions . |
| 22 | ‘ I only had my little Fender Super Reverb , which was basically only a 35 watt amp — undistorted it 's about 25 watts — so I could n't handle it . ’ |
| 23 | Another would follow in Walsall in 1892 ; it was obviously largely a Midlands phenomenon . |
| 24 | The relationship was obviously not a close one . |
| 25 | This was obviously not a state of affairs which could continue indefinitely and , although I knew as much at the time , I could n't will myself into sleep . |
| 26 | This was obviously not a name that tripped off the tongue , but the lads rose to it manfully , while managing to weep , groan and , from the sound of it , pull out lumps of each other 's hair at the same time . |
| 27 | I justify this departure from intention by advancing a theory that Skye was obviously once a part of the mainland : a study of the map confirms that it is separated only by a narrow channel , Kyle Rhea , the configuration of the shores on either side matching as though torn apart in ages past . |
| 28 | ‘ In any case , ’ said Milton , ‘ the point is that Fagg was obviously never a nice person . |
| 29 | It 's in what was obviously quite a nice terrace at one time , early Victorian or something , with big fat columns holding up the porches and railings on the street and steps leading to the basement . |
| 30 | So this was obviously quite a difficult job ? |