Example sentences of "was [adv] a [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , for all its self-importance late-medieval Chichester was only a quarter the size of Salisbury in terms of its taxpayers , 869 of them in 1377 . |
| 2 | If it can be proved that the pillion passenger knew the driver was only a learner the passenger would most likely commit the offence of aiding and abetting the learner to carry an unlicensed passenger . |
| 3 | Wetherall did very well against Dowie who was literally a handful the whole match . |
| 4 | All right , it was just a phase the girl was going through , a season of adolescent fumbling , but even so … |
| 5 | That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er |
| 6 | Like everyone else , I became equally at home with both systems , and I was doubly fortunate in that while I was still a student the metric system changed from being ‘ cgs ’ based ( centimetres , grams , seconds ) to ‘ MKS ’ based ( Metres , Kilograms , Seconds ) . |
| 7 | There was n't a lot the captain could say without jeopardizing her standing so she just nodded once and switched off . |
| 8 | Yet it was n't a talent the school as an institution particularly nurtured . |
| 9 | But er he was quite a character the man that did that . |