Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Andy was given half a day 's notice . |
| 2 | I wish that Deane was scoring 3 a match — but I have nt had the opportunity to see him in action recently . |
| 3 | The original proposal was to make this a duel carriageway , but the plan was shelved to save money . |
| 4 | The other case in which assistance was granted concerned a complaint that the union , in breach of the rules , was trying to split motions for vote . |
| 5 | Bondagers were paid half a man 's rate for the same work . |
| 6 | Bondagers were paid half a man 's rate for the same work . |
| 7 | The explosion was heard half a mile away . |
| 8 | The men of the family always formed a very solid front to the outside world , and at times to their womenfolk , and as it had been the custom among their people for children to be looked after by the men on the mother 's side of the family , especially if a brother had no issue of his own , they did n't see why the sisters were making such a fuss . |
| 9 | Verdun was to lose half a foot in the pits and use the £300 compensation to buy an upright piano ( although he could not play it ) . |
| 10 | Police are connecting the rape with an incident 90 minutes earlier when a 25-year-old woman was attacked half a mile away at Burway on the edge of Ludlow . |
| 11 | The boxmen were paid 1/6 a day . |
| 12 | If Britain were to make such a gesture we should be doing an international service . |
| 13 | In keeping with the rationale of the legislation , the effect of the House of Lords ruling was to make guilty a tippee who knowingly traded in shares on the basis of unpublished price sensitive information , regardless of how the information was obtained . |
| 14 | THE party 's over , it 's time to call it a day — but Catherine Zeta Jones was having such a perfick time she just did n't notice . |
| 15 | The eels were making such a noise that all the other fishes started making a noise as well , which woke up the Loch Ness Monster ’ . |
| 16 | The problem was finding such a man who was n't already married . |
| 17 | If this House were to apply such a principle it would involve going beyond what any of the authorities have decided , departing from such decisions as Slater v. Burnley Corporation ; William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and Twyford v. Manchester Corporation which have stood for many years and would involve making new law . |
| 18 | Events were to justify such a view of things , and God was duly thanked , by the royal order that masses should be said to commemorate the defeat of the English at Formigny in April 1450 , for the way he had turned his gaze towards the French cause which , for so long , had appeared to be lacking his support . |
| 19 | This was another evening of pleasure , and Jim was full of tales about Alice 's father , and the others working with him , twelve or more , and how lucky Alice was to have such a father while Alice smiled and kept a lock on her tongue . |
| 20 | Although if some sort of republic was to survive such a tactic made theoretical sense , its practicability was seriously undermined by the nature of the CEDA 's ideology and wealthy support . |
| 21 | It is not that prospects for earnings are 10 p.c. better that they were in the middle of last week , but it is possible to argue that prospects are that much better than they would have been under a Labour government and that the market was discounting such a result . |