Example sentences of "[verb] was [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top Flying-boats had a glamorous image , but disembarking was often an undignified scramble . |
| 2 | The box I built was basically a crate with a dividing wall and a piston inside . |
| 3 | The incidence found was probably an underestimate of true community incidence as the protocol did not pick up those people in whom , for whatever reason , the clinicians caring for them did not measure the serum electrolyte values . |
| 4 | Unusual , perhaps , tiresome to his office — but if the strange behaviour at which his daughter had hinted was really a sort of battiness , the office would have made its own arrangements to get by . |
| 5 | His sins of micro-commission were small ; and the macro thing he did not do was hardly a new failure . |
| 6 | And , having provided a generally pessimistic account of the evacuee children 's condition , Our Towns drew the conclusion that what was needed was primarily a reform of the education system that would ‘ lay the foundations for community life and expose the schools to the pressure of middle-class standards and requirements ’ , with an emphasis on ‘ training for future wives ’ . |
| 7 | When Gypsy made the Dance Top Ten , the ‘ video ’ shown was simply a bizarre still photo of what appeared to be a bespectacled school-kid . |
| 8 | The young man looked startled that what he 'd thought was just a speck in his eye was turning out to be something much more serious . |
| 9 | Although there was a random procedure for replacing such houses with others of the same general type , interviewing was nevertheless a time-consuming , depressing and occasionally frightening experience . |
| 10 | The baby fluff had disappeared and the new hair that was growing was quite a different colour . |
| 11 | If rambling was a leisurely walk in the countryside on a Sunday afternoon , hiking was altogether a more ambitious enterprise , frequently involving a trip further afield for a week or a fortnight 's hard walking using map and compass , regarded as an indispensable accomplishment as the threat of war increased . |
| 12 | Under the accord , which Bustos claimed was only a " first step " falling short of CUT demands , a new minimum wage of US$87 was to be paid from June 1 in addition to adjustments to family allowances , pensions and some subsidies , which would be subject to annual vision . |
| 13 | Another version says that the idea of tapes being wiped was just a wheeze to get a comfortable taxi back to base ! |
| 14 | The existence of an ether in space had been a highly controversial issue with scientists until 1951 , when Nobel Laureate , Paul Dirac , affirmed that the ether he thought existed was essentially an all-pervading sea of electrons in random motion . |
| 15 | I attempted desperately to convince myself that what I was experiencing was just a particularly cruel and hateful dream concocted by some part of my mind determined to exact due penalty from my conscience for my having behaved with such despicable lack of grace during the holidays … but failed utterly ; my sub-conscious ' stock of nightmare-paradigms includes nothing so banally twisted as Gav . |
| 16 | Each had an incomplete faith because the aspect of truth he sensed was only a part of the full truth of who Jesus is . |
| 17 | She was tired of kneeling , listening to their voices droning on : ‘ Our Father who art in heaven , hallowed be Thy name ’ , and ‘ Hail Mary , full of grace ’ , which was all she could make out of the second bit , because what followed was just a mumble . |
| 18 | There had been women writers of the Restoration whose reputations were unassailable , notably Katherine Phillips , but to publish was indeed a risk . |
| 19 | I knew it must in theory , but to see it happen was still a lovely surprise . |
| 20 | Confined to the fine arts , this clinging to the safe and known was just a brake upon innovation and exuberance . |
| 21 | So I mean I think what we envisaged though was that the local publicity group erm would meet and see if the well first of all I suppose was there a , a necessity having seen what we 've got from national level er necessity to produce a kind of newsletter , a joint unison newsletter specific to Northumberland , that 's what the group was going to have a look at was n't it ? |
| 22 | And for many people , make do and mend was always a harsh reality . |
| 23 | Er just before we go onto you union work , what were you having was quite a good employer I believe ? |
| 24 | The abbey he lorded was essentially a preserve for the well-endowed ; thirty or so monks surrounded by a staff of several hundred servants , controlling the life of a substantial area . |
| 25 | Perhaps the question of whether or not Sykes had been arrested was only a technicality . |
| 26 | The refectory where meals were served was still a bit daunting . |
| 27 | Edith arrived one evening at a local hotel for what she thought was just a companiable dinner party amongst friends in very pleasant surroundings . |
| 28 | Try reading that and explaining the words of that , to somebody who has no knowledge of the Christian faith , I thought was quite a challenge . |
| 29 | Well that was another thing , one of the new first-aiders we 've got , erm did n't know where the accident book was and I thought was quite an important thing that would probably have been brought up |
| 30 | The ease it offered was primarily a freedom from conformity . |