Example sentences of "[noun] was [vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rumours have suggested Susan Hill was given a million pounds for writing it , she says she got nothing like that amount . |
| 2 | His anxiety for equal terms in the nuclear club was echoed a few months later by , of all people , Aneurin Bevan , who urged his fellow left-wingers at the Labour Party conference not to vote for Britain to give up nuclear arms with the famous plea : ‘ Do not send the British Foreign Minister naked into the international conference chamber ! ’ |
| 3 | This has been partly due to the new and attractive packages offered to depositors , and partly due to the increase in competition in the sector since the interest rate cartel was ended a few years ago . |
| 4 | Soon released , Throckmorton was rearrested a few months later because of the involvement of his younger brother , Michael , with Cardinal Reginald Pole [ q.v. ] : once again no charge was sustained . |
| 5 | Her car was parked a few yards away from the building . |
| 6 | The nights grew colder , but in the early morning the rising sun was caught a thousand times in the droplets of moisture that formed in the webs that spiders wove across the bars of Creggan 's cage . |
| 7 | Sharpe was released a few days later , but there were to be many more visits to the hospital as worries grew about his condition . |
| 8 | Her question was answered a few minutes later when Matthew himself came outside and saw her at the window . |
| 9 | Another conference was held a few months later at Geneva , when France 's colonial war in Indochina was brought to an end . |
| 10 | They urged friends to join them and so the Society of St Peter Apostle was born a hundred years ago in France . |
| 11 | Her husband was arrested a few hours later . |
| 12 | The somewhat carefree atmosphere of this event was dampened a few months later when the Electricity Board 's contractors prepared to start work on levelling the ground for the new power station . |
| 13 | The strike was averted a few days before the scheduled date , after Confindustria , yielding to pressure from the government as well as from the unions , agreed to resume pay negotiations in the sectors concerned , and from June 1 , 1991 , to enter into negotiations on a new wage bargaining and indexation system . |
| 14 | He had taught the bird to pronounce the name of his lost love , and this name was repeated a hundred times a day . |
| 15 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 16 | the county keeper was shaken a few times but not often stirred |
| 17 | This preparatory work was practically complete at the outbreak of war and authority was given a few days before for completion . |
| 18 | Fortunately , Quetta was bought a few months later by a retired man , Harold Shoosmith . |
| 19 | One night after shuffling absently through a foxtrot , Flavia was walked a few steps into the garden by her partner and given a kiss , she quite cheerfully accepting this custom of the country . |
| 20 | ‘ When the draw for the quarter-final was made a few weeks ago , I was delighted at being paired with Derry City ’ he declared . |
| 21 | One young man was killed a few weeks before the Armistice . |
| 22 | I have always regretted the fact that the unhappiest part of my life was spent a few miles away from Riggindale , and I never visited it . |
| 23 | The old watermill was demolished a few years ago , but was active until 1960 . |
| 24 | His morale was uplifted a few minutes later when the same Minister returned with a gaggle of additional members evidently called from the floor of the House . |
| 25 | A similar suggestion was made a few years later by the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace , apparently independently of Michell . |
| 26 | Andrew Fowler was caught a few days later when police discovered the caravan at the girl 's former home . |
| 27 | After these reconnaissances during October , a final reconnaissance was made a few days before the invasion , by the teams going inshore one night so that each navigator could show the paddlers their canoes ' positions as navigational marks guiding in the assault waves on D-day . |
| 28 | An open audition was advertised a few weeks later and Carl beat over 900 other young hopefuls singing Hole in the Ground , a song popularised by Bernard Cribbins . |
| 29 | The state of emergency was lifted a few days later after pollution levels had fallen . |
| 30 | It turned out that my grandfather was right for Cody was killed a few minutes afterwards for just this reason . |