Example sentences of "was a [noun] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a chance in a million that I came through it all alive . ’ |
| 2 | Lifeboat coxswain Dave Kennett , who went out to the yacht , said : ‘ It was a chance in a million they were seen . |
| 3 | It was a chance in a million , and if he did not grasp it , one of his competitors would . |
| 4 | ‘ It was a chance in a million that we found each other but we have n't looked back since . |
| 5 | Klaus was a boy with a good school certificate who wanted to join ICI to work in chemical engineering . |
| 6 | ‘ It was a door like a thousand others in a wall like a thousand others . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , there was a trend towards a greater likelihood of requiring hepatic transplantation , although this did not reach statistical significance . |
| 8 | ‘ He was a bloke in a million . |
| 9 | Except that she became with child , and Robert — her husband , you must know , who was a brute with a terrible temper ! — refused to acknowledge it as his own . |
| 10 | At the recent Parish Council meeting there was a request from a local resident that the bridle way leaving the Trough Road opposite the entrance to Salisbury Farm ( Grid Ref SD 522 511 ) which was stopped when the gas pipe line was laid should be reopened . |
| 11 | It was a sliver of a larger room that had been partitioned off . |
| 12 | And , she realised , the very last thing she needed was a post-mortem on a failed relationship , especially when the relationship had been so horribly one-sided . |
| 13 | Next thing there was a screech like a stuck pig — never heard such a row . |
| 14 | Then on the slope above , there was a snort from a watchful hind and in a second every beast was in flight , careering down the hillside , leaping , bounding , in jerky yet fluid motion . |
| 15 | ‘ There was a lack of a shared view about what the health service 's purpose was , and yet without that how can you know if you 've done a good or a bad job ? |
| 16 | I have an uncle who was a prisoner in a Japanese war camp . |
| 17 | However , there was a delay of a few minutes from the start of the experiment before the chicks ate their first camouflaged rice grains . |
| 18 | Whatever the story-line there was a hero for a new era . |
| 19 | Previously , a series of guitar-based seminars in the United States ( by Howard Roberts in particular ) had provided evidence that there was a requirement for a full-time vocational guitar training programme . |
| 20 | James said later : ‘ It was a bit of a drunken laugh at the time but I want to forget it — it was a stupid thing to do . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Michael was a bit of a practical joker . |
| 22 | A Suffolk man said : ‘ My grandfather was a bit of a rough diamond , and he was n't above letting a few words fly in front of us children when he felt like it . |
| 23 | It was a bit of a rough area . |
| 24 | And that , and that was a bit of a all year so that 's , that passed . |
| 25 | No wonder there was a bit of a diplomatic problem at home . |
| 26 | Les was a bit of a lay preacher , but did not push his views on anyone . |
| 27 | And that was a bit of a nice little deadline the pressure was on . |
| 28 | So it was a bit of a hard match today then mate ? |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll tell you what I know , though I was a bit of a reclusive child … ’ |
| 30 | I went to see The Wild One many many years ago when I was thinking about becoming an actor and thinking maybe it was a bit of a poofy thing to do , and Marlon Brando was standing in front of this juke box and he had ‘ New York Rebels ’ on the back of his leather jacket and this girl came up and said , ‘ What are you rebelling against , Johnny ? ’ and he says ‘ What have you got ? ’ and I thought , ‘ Yeah , that 's my man , I 'll do that . ’ |