Example sentences of "was a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam Burns was a stunningly attractive , charismatic man , even she could never deny that . |
| 2 | Some of the nomes scouted around the sheds and came back with a few vegetables that had been missed , but it was a pitifully small amount . |
| 3 | There was a particularly piquant episode when it had been reported to him that a meeting had allegedly taken place somewhere in the country , where Jenkins was supposed to have organised his cabal . |
| 4 | The warm , dry summer of 1989 was a particularly good breeding year for hares , and was followed by a high autumnal ‘ die-off ’ . |
| 5 | ( ‘ And of course , competing at the Olympics was tremendously exciting ’ ) 1991 was a particularly good year for Will with placings at most of the top competitions , including Addington , Arena UK and the Horse of the Year Show . |
| 6 | So Rob 's instruction was that he put them in those files and I did n't think it was a particularly good idea because everything 's easier to find if it 's in the envelopes that we 've put them in . |
| 7 | He laughed as though that was a particularly witty thing to say . |
| 8 | It is clear from the differential sentencing that the judge considered that the rape of the men was a particularly heinous aspect of the case . |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't say it was a particularly pleasant experience — it 's a bit hairy wandering through waist high vines that could be full of black and brown snakes ! ’ |
| 10 | There was a particularly violent jolt . |
| 11 | Similarly the militias of the civitates seem to have relished the opportunity to plunder neighbouring districts ; in the wake of Chilperic 's murder there was a particularly savage conflict between the men of Orléans and Blois on the one hand and the men of Châteaudun and Chartres , just to the north , on the other . |
| 12 | The weapopn , say the prosecution , was a particularly savage type of knuckle-duster , with an arrow head which protuded from Kelly 's clenched fist . |
| 13 | Probably the worst day of that year , though a typical one , was a particularly hot day in August . |
| 14 | Hadley , who holds joint French-Canadian nationality , was a particularly hot pick for the French . |
| 15 | The pieces we loaned made up the ‘ influence of ’ section , with each piece was a particularly rare and important example of Japonisme as applied to domestic silver , and we shall have some of those pieces displayed for sale at this year 's fair . |
| 16 | From the Richard and Dorothy Rodgers collection ‘ The Palm ’ ( lot 26 ) was a particularly accessible work characterised by a vibrant orange-red background . |
| 17 | There was a particularly nasty crematorium in Mitcham , he recalled , with a chapel that looked more than usually like a public lavatory . |
| 18 | A police spokesman said : ‘ It was a particularly nasty crime , picking on a woman in distress . |
| 19 | ‘ It was a particularly nasty and vicious assault . ’ |
| 20 | Det Insp Tom Henry says it was a particularly nasty incident and a stupid act for anyone to do . |
| 21 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , there was a particularly sharp increase in cynicism about political institutions in general between 1972 and 1974 . |
| 23 | Whole areas were cleaned like this , and sometimes when there was a particularly fastidious Corporal in charge , there was a second reserve line which followed behind . |
| 24 | This was a particularly dangerous practice at this station as trains approaching on the down line could not be seen until they were 40 yards from the station due to a bend and a road bridge . |
| 25 | Lime was originally shipped as quick-lime and was a particularly dangerous cargo . |
| 26 | Monetarism was a particularly controversial policy and a number of colleagues argued for a reversal of strategy , as unemployment increased remorselessly and the government 's popularity in opinion polls and by-elections slumped . |
| 27 | George said she only did that on the first and last nights of the season , unless there was a particularly successful production , like the time O'Hara had brought the house down in Richard II . |
| 28 | This was a particularly successful operation . |
| 29 | Wolf Wolfensberger , an American professor of education and rehabilitation working with mentally handicapped people , was a particularly powerful influence on the ‘ normalization ’ movement , especially in the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 30 | At the southern end of the line was a particularly prominent , fresh-looking cone , 798 metres high , known by its Javanese name of Rakata . |