Example sentences of "[det] was [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was all rather embarrassing , from about six different angles . |
| 2 | This was all rather playing into his hands . |
| 3 | This was all quite accepted , but he could n't rid himself of the memory of his wife gazing blankly at the breakfast table with only the prospect of clearing it . |
| 4 | This was all quite unexpected and rather exhilarating , and Sophie 's interest in Giles began to grow . |
| 5 | The writer asked what this was all about . |
| 6 | Was that what this was all about ? ) and into the ante-room/office that was being used as the base for the investigation . |
| 7 | And now he knew what this was all about . |
| 8 | Matthew realized he still did n't know what this was all about . |
| 9 | That was what this was all about . |
| 10 | That was what this was all about . |
| 11 | As stonewalls go , this was all highly impressive . |
| 12 | This was all fairly normal . |
| 13 | When Chesterman countered with the suggestion that this was all very technical and cerebral , Karajan — a courteous man who normally conducted a conversation with the calmness of a trained philosopher — retorted with the suggestion that such a view was ‘ misguided ’ . |
| 14 | This was all very necessary , but I found it dull stuff indeed after the immediacy of Ultra . |
| 15 | This was all very fine , but glory came expensive . |
| 16 | This was all very much in line with the current thinking of the more policy-minded Indirect Rulers : Margery Perham , and even Lugard , supported the formation of regional councils along these lines . |
| 17 | This was all very well and most wooden ships were watertight in harbour but , without exception , they all leaked when they got to sea . |
| 18 | This was all very worrying for the reformers in the government who though applauding the young people 's sense of nationalistic duty rejected their misgivings about the open-door policy . |
| 19 | This was all very encouraging and bodes well for 1993 . |
| 20 | The first approach replied that this was all very well but then how could we ever assess the importance of one variable against another in the overall changes ? |
| 21 | Riley pulled an ear and bit a lip and said this was all very well but the trouble was he had learned the other man was unwilling to move to the Post after all . |
| 22 | This was all very frustrating for Keynes . |
| 23 | And from a corner the visitor 's Leach saved full length , and Mark West should have scored when he lobbed it back , but Peak headed behind for a corner , this was all very very hectic indeed . |
| 24 | It was a wooden and pillars you know this was all down here and this this all 'd to be French polished . |
| 25 | Oh , grief — this was all too much ! |
| 26 | I came upstairs and shut my door , and then the door went ‘ Bang , bang ’ and the kids woke up — this was one o'clock in the morning — and I go , ‘ That 's it ’ , went down and there was this big fight . |
| 27 | Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before . |
| 28 | But this was unsuccessful also , for the casualties were unacceptable , and though some did reach the masonry , over all the ditches , few burdened with ladders and scaling-ropes managed to do so , and these were easily repulsed by the defenders on the wall-tops . |
| 29 | This was long enough to become an expert by American standards , but not so long the life force would be sucked out of me . ’ |
| 30 | This was necessary not only to secure that a substantial part of the development ‘ returned to the community ’ , but also to prevent a two-price system as existed under the 1954 Act . |