Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a [noun sg] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a doorway , wedged between a Guardian leader writer and a Kleinian analyst , Alan Headleand and his ex-tutor Otto Werner from the LSE were debating with a fine abstraction and a noble disregard of interruption the question as to whether or not a television programme was a primary product or a service , and whether , by implication or extension , Charles 's production company , Global Information Network ( Telex GIN ) was allied in ideological terms with the manufacturing or the service industries : with equal commitment Esther Breuer and Jules Griffin ( colleague of Liz Headleand ) were discussing the nature of ancestral voices in schizophrenic patients and in the Homeric and Biblical epic , and the portrayal of the Holy Ghost in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts . |
| 2 | ( Experience had shown , as the introduction pointed out , that whenever a letter notation was used , people tended to pronounce it if at all possible . ) |
| 3 | And thus a boundary dispute was born . |
| 4 | If ever a stage production was set to enjoy a long run , it must be the work being put on by the Glasgow-based ensemble company , The Golden Age Theatre . |
| 5 | It was initially horse-drawn , and later a Simplex Tractor was used . |
| 6 | Casks of water , fencing wire , posts , bags of peat , dogs and even a pedigree ram were loaded feverishly until Viking was a stevedore 's nightmare . |
| 7 | In England , James Robertson ( 1953 , 1958 ) , a colleague of Bowlby 's at the Tavistock Clinic , started a campaign to persuade children 's hospital wards to admit mothers together with their children , or at least not to restrict visiting in any way ; some hospitals welcomed the idea , others resisted it , but meanwhile a Government committee was set up which in 1959 published the ‘ Platt Report ’ on the welfare of children in hospital , recommending ‘ that all hospitals where children are treated will adopt the practice of unrestricted visiting , particularly for children below school age ’ , that ‘ it is particularly valuable for the mother to be able to stay in hospital with her child during the first day or two ’ , and that ‘ children should not be admitted to hospital if it can possibly be avoided ’ . |
| 8 | Confusingly , parents were advised to do X ; then , after perhaps a generation X was out , it was best to do Y. Nowadays we can rely on research studies for at least some evidence about the desirability and effectiveness of this or that approach , and about the influence of certain styles of parenting on the child 's development and wellbeing . |