Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noted with interest that the cockpit instrument panel was remarkably similar to a car dash-board ; even the airspeed was shown in miles per hour instead of knots . |
| 2 | The brunette was strikingly attractive in a way that was dramatically enhanced by make-up and clothes . |
| 3 | Hitler , of course , was dead set against a war between Britain and Germany . |
| 4 | The martial air , according to one general , was discreetly detectable in an apparently superfluous top pocket in the windcheater . |
| 5 | I was lucky to halve the match with her , and this flattering result was mostly due to a fortuitous birdie on the last hole , where I holed a pitch and run shot from short of the green . |
| 6 | He was mostly happy without an excessive amount of work , and when it was not there he did not invent it . |
| 7 | Doctrinaire Anglicization marked some of these changes , but Somerset 's enduring reputation was rather that of an autocrat , as appeared from his conflict with leaders of English-speaking opinion in the colonial community , George Greig , John Fairbairn , and Thomas Pringle , who successfully used the governor 's quarrels with two reprobate settlers to demand press freedom . |
| 8 | Inchbad was rather partial to a soft , tender Human breast . |
| 9 | As her Swiss headmistress Madame Yersin commented : ‘ She was rather young for a sixteen-year-old . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ That was rather late for a girl of her age to be up . |
| 11 | It had occurred to Cecilia as soon as the words were out of her mouth that five minutes to twelve , which was the time when she had seen Jasper , was rather early for a lunch hour to begin . |
| 12 | ‘ I just thought it was rather remarkable in a boy of twenty-three . |
| 13 | At the end of December Sullivan went to the palace on a mission that , he says was rather unusual for an ambassador . |
| 14 | He was hurting her a little now , the arm around her waist like steel , so that she was hazily aware of a dull ache in the small of her back . |
| 15 | Not too long ago your company was most pleasant for a while . ’ |
| 16 | This means that information about food obtained by following others was most available to a given individual when it appears to be of least importance . |
| 17 | Other relations had been bishops and aldermen , ‘ barristers-at-law ’ , but my father was most proud of an uncle who had invented Aero , a kind of chocolate with bubbles of air in it ( by accident , as it happened ) . |
| 18 | This attitude was most apparent in a speech given in the Isle of Dogs in 1978 by Sir Geoffrey Howe , later to be Mrs Thatcher 's first Chancellor ( Howe , 1978 ) . |
| 19 | The great novelist , here writing as a criminologist , was evidently seeking to describe a social accompaniment of the transition to a capitalist mode of production , which to him as a magistrate was most evident as a problem of order . |
| 20 | It was this concern which was most evident in a timely article in the Fortnightly Review , in 1922 , which stated that : |
| 21 | The support of a British parasitologist Warrington Yorke ( 1883–1943 ) , at the Liverpool Institute of Tropical Medicine , who foresaw the wartime problems well in advance , was most important to a programme of research into antimalarial drugs developed at the Imperial Chemical Industries Research Laboratories at Manchester . |
| 22 | The thunderstorm had washed the hills and the sky itself , it seemed , and the freshness of the evening was most amiable for a slightly strenuous stroll during which the gentleman had every right to take the woman 's arm and even , over a rough patch , help her by the waist . |
| 23 | Reagan 's party had won control of the Senate , which was most unusual for a Republican president , by 53 — 47 and this was an undeniably important material and psychological gain . |
| 24 | His role was effectively one of a papal nuncio , a part which is now played by Fidel Castro , who is the epitome of the charismatic caudillo . |
| 25 | Lady Grange was unharmoniously married to a Law Lord . |
| 26 | Later that day , and with a good half-inch of our respective hair on the floor of a Soho salon , we hit the black suede pump shop , where I was noiselessly relieved of a week 's rehearsal pay on a pair of boots the same as the ones which fell apart in three months last time and a pair of the suede pumps ( ‘ EVERYBODY 'S wearing them ! ’ ) which , one week later , were flat and circular like dinghies . |
| 27 | It would seem that the bidder , in these circumstances , has no remedy against either the seller or the auctioneer because the sale was expressly subject to a reserve price and the auctioneer 's authority was known to be so limited . |
| 28 | Obviously it was not a good idea to keep Nigel at home for what was little short of a week . |
| 29 | The 1988 drought — the third of the decade — was arguably more of a blow to the American sense of security than the discovery of an alleged missile gap in the 1950s . |
| 30 | She was tremendously impressed by a casual comparison which he drew between the victorious hero of the film and Corneille 's Le Cid , and all the more impressed because Le Cid was one of her set texts for A Level , whereas he was taking physics , chemistry and mathematics . |