Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [was/were] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least Pathfinder is still going strong and Writers & Readers was making a comeback . |
| 2 | A shout from the front of the wood called him back to the edge of the field , where men were watching a group of the enemy busy with spades on the high ground to his left , near the wood where they stationed the Normans . |
| 3 | The difference between the early days and 1976 was that cars were going a lot faster — Lauda himself had been the first to break the magical seven-minute lap in 1975 — and that very little had been done to make the track safer . |
| 4 | Izvestiya of March 12 reported that officials were predicting a budget deficit in the first quarter of around 10 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) against the government 's target of 1 per cent . |
| 5 | This , and the evidence that identical twins are more likely to share an alcoholic fate than are non-identical twins , suggested that genes were playing a role . |
| 6 | He was challenged to come clean over personal assurances he gave in December 1990 that ministers were obeying a ban on selling defence equipment to Saddam Hussein . |
| 7 | On top of a cavity in the stone in which had been placed contemporary records and coins was placed a plate with the inscription : |
| 8 | The main panels on the body of the tank and some parts of the engine and wheels were given a base coat of Moody Blue highlighted up with Enchanted Blue and Skull White . |
| 9 | 13–10–1888 An Assembly Deputation from the Committee on Religion and Morals was to spend a week in Bowmore . |
| 10 | Foucault notes that , at the same time as the Annales school and others were constructing a history according to the long durée , in the history of science , philosophy , and literature , attention was turning in exactly the opposite direction , that is away from vast unities towards phenomena of rupture , discontinuity , displacement and transformation , towards different temporalities as well as architectonic unities . |
| 11 | Since we know from other evidence that the warrior and mercantile classes of Europe were not being depleted in this period — on the contrary , were steadily rising — we can see here further evidence of the rise in population of this age , a rise all the more striking since it could continue and grow in strength even though so many men and women were following a life of celibacy . |
| 12 | In one disturbance that received wide publicity , a policeman had stumbled across a gang of about twenty youths , said to be known as the ‘ Chelsea Boys ’ who ‘ armed with sticks and stones were fighting a contingent of similar young ruffians from Battersea ’ at Cheyne Walk by the river . |
| 13 | If battles were to assume a role of secondary significance , then the cavalry , who might play a vital part on such occasions , were likely to become less important . |
| 14 | Observers speculated that it offered Gorbachev 's conservative opponents probably their last chance to influence policy as a credible force in the central committee : in recent weeks a grassroots party revolt had toppled the conservative leaderships in several regions and cities , including Tyumen in West Siberia , Chernigov in the Ukraine , and Volgograd in southern European Russia , while conservatives were facing a rout in the forthcoming local soviet ( council ) elections ( in which party leaders had been encouraged to stand ) and in elections to party posts ahead of the 28th CPSU congress . |
| 15 | When subjects were performing a variety of other judgment tasks they may have no longer expected to see particularly risky situations and consequently would have been better centred on the scale for risk ratings . |
| 16 | The training of the militia was costly , for men were paid a wage of 8d. a day during training , usually for ten days in the year , and the purchase of equipment and ammunition had to be added to this . |