Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposed cuts had led to talk of its closure but today a reprieve was announced . |
| 2 | Another deadly volley of canister and scarcely a man was left on his feet and capable of charging even had he wanted to do so . |
| 3 | Not quite a woman — because I wanted to do things with Gittel that only a man was supposed to want to do ; not quite a man — because I wanted Gittel to do the same things back to me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It was a bloody business but eventually a breach was forced in the defences and Bartholomew led us through . ’ |
| 5 | There is plenty of evidence for the planting of new vineyards in the Bordelais and even a Poitevin was prepared to admit that Bordeaux wine was of superb quality , but at this date by far the most important wine-exporting region was further north , in Aunis and Saintonge . |
| 6 | The whole is tied together by the notion of control although later a distinction was to be made between the authority of office and the authority of expertise . |
| 7 | At the time of my visit about half the men had been convicted of heterosexual offences , mostly rape ; about a quarter for offences against children and about a quarter were the ‘ grasses ’ or informers . |
| 8 | Numerous houses became schools , many more became hospitals and quite a number were acquired as reform schools . |