Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [was/were] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some who heard him were impressed and a few were frightened . |
| 2 | But when I started it was fifty-two and a half hours a week yes . |
| 3 | He would have turned down millions if the woman had been ugly or ill-bred or disagreeable He liked Anna ; he thought she was charming and a credit to himself , and he meant to look after her . |
| 4 | Since he successfully sued The Face for alleging he was gay and a hypocrite for denying it , he has attracted a lot of abuse . |
| 5 | Well w we just er opened it s I think it was three and a half days a week . |
| 6 | Muslim deputies here said they were optimistic that a working group of senior deputies could agree on the reforms , which give the Muslims equal representation in parliament and transfer executive powers from the Christian president to a cabinet led by a Sunni Muslim prime minister . |
| 7 | Lord Justice Balcombe said it was unlikely that a pending court application by the mother , who is divorced from the children 's father , for access to her children would succeed . |
| 8 | Lord Hailsham , a former Lord Chancellor , said it was paradoxical that a Government dedicated to privatisation should produce a bill whose object was to nationalise the judiciary and the legal profession . |
| 9 | Novell said it was likely that a version of UnixWare for the PC-9800 line from NEC Corp , which dominates the Japanese market , would be developed , although no date was committed . |
| 10 | But he said he was confident that a new offer by City director Christopher Needler to underwrite an increased overdraft will be accepted by the bank . |
| 11 | Roderick O'Sullivan , who has carried out research for programmes such as Channel Four 's Fragile Earth , said he was concerned that a mystery disease which wiped out half the swan population at the bay last winter had re-emerged . |
| 12 | But to show he was independent and a big boy he had lately taken to spelling his name with a small letter : martin . |
| 13 | Bringing his voice under control he suggested it was unlikely that a man of O'Hara 's established reputation would want to appear in the provinces . |
| 14 | In the days before floodlighting it was obvious that a game starting at five o'clock could not possibly run its full course , but the referee went ahead , fearing trouble from a crowd that had waited over two hours . |