Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lorry drivers in a transport cafe enjoying their breakfast were marooned for a time and really the best form of transport was by canoe . |
| 2 | Conversely , those not easily located like part-time farmers on Flotta in Orkney were dependent on a wife or neighbour able to deal with such emergencies . |
| 3 | Most human discourses behave as if language were transparent to a meaning or a reality beyond it , but , if we carry the lessons of Saussure right through to their logical conclusion , we see that this can not be so . |
| 4 | The great black eyes were clear without a shadow as Isabella , recognising the bright aspect of love and unaware of its dark face , looked up and smiled . |
| 5 | There were six to a cabin and they were on deck H. The initial was appropriate . |
| 6 | Things were fine for a year or two , until I found I was becoming rather reluctant to weed . |
| 7 | Now , most people think that you were a fish wife because you were married to a fisherman that had nothing to do with it ! |
| 8 | But if the woman cotton worker were married to a miner or an engineer , then the husband usually refused to do housework , his substantially higher earnings gave him breadwinner status and , notwithstanding his wife 's employment , the right to leisure while at home . |
| 9 | Players from almost every Premier League club were involved in a shoot that took four days and cost £400,000 . |
| 10 | With hindsight it is clear that left-wing opponents planned to disrupt the meeting , for over 1,000 anti-fascists were involved in a counter-demonstration and in the systematic attempts to wreck the occasion . |
| 11 | 80th minute : Adams and Tottenham 's Justin Edinburgh were involved in a pushing and shoving contest . |
| 12 | Boredom and routine were less of a menace because Christopher was not a nine-to-fiver . |
| 13 | School uniforms , Sixties starlets and rockers have all been her inspiration , while the slogan T-shirts themselves were less of an invention than a Woodstock revival . |
| 14 | The security at the main gate must have been too tight to let them get established , but tucked away around the perimeter fence they were less of an eyesore and small nuisance . |
| 15 | We found indications that homophonic phrases were more of a problem than had previously been thought . |
| 16 | First the pilchards had to be gutted and salted , and the red hands and sharp knives of the womenfolk were busy for an hour or more . |
| 17 | They were therefore still needing the measurements of the energies of the neutrons , which were necessary as a proof that they were indeed neutrons produced by dd fusion and not somehow spurious . |
| 18 | Shorter and his lieutenants were wary of a trap and had watched the forest lodge near Caesar 's Camp for several hours before finally making their rendezvous with Baptist Nunn but , as they entered the building , they were surrounded by a dozen officers who had been lying doggo nearby for many hours . |
| 19 | There was a week in 1986 when Fleet Street and Westminster were convulsed with a rumour that Home Sectretary Leon Brittan had been caught interferring with a small boy ; no newspaper dared to print what all " in the know " were discussing until " Private Eye " published the story with the explanation that it was utterly false , and circulated to damage the Home Secretary by an anti-semitic faction in MI5 . |
| 20 | While their father accepted that they were both of an age where they wanted to fly the nest , their mother , who , it had to be said , doted on her son — who 'd been a constant source of worry to her — took a little longer . |
| 21 | ‘ ( a ) that the commission of the offence was due to a mistake or to reliance on information supplied to him or to the act or default of another person , an accident or some other cause beyond his control ; and ( b ) that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of such offence by himself or any person under his control . ’ |
| 22 | that the commission of the offence was due to a mistake or to reliance on information supplied to him or to the act or default of another person , an accident or some other cause beyond his control ; and |
| 23 | It was due to a war that the boys became stranded on the island and this alone suggests that man is a sinful creature . |
| 24 | This new zeal was strange in a way because John was n't really our idea , but Malcolm 's . |
| 25 | A dwelling unit , nothing more , something that was right for a girl that was alone , right for a girl who lived without a man . |
| 26 | Only a short time ago she had been as physically intimate with him as it was possible for a man and woman to be . |
| 27 | Men were lying on the dirty floor , a sailor was asleep on a table and two women were drinking at the bar . |
| 28 | During an argument Sandiford , of Barking , Essex , was upset by a remark and later admitted taking the wig and two collars . |
| 29 | Indeed , behind the fears and accusations which surrounded the villainous working-class ‘ scorcher ’ , his emancipated female accomplice , and the unruly cyclist juror we can perhaps sense the vaguely incoherent feeling that the democratic bicycle — which was now only upsetting the respectable pleasures of a quiet Bank Holiday weekend in the countryside — was representative of a force that might be calculated to upset a few other things as well . |
| 30 | Certainly in Light ( 1857 ) [ 1843 – 60 ] All ER Rep 934 , the accused was guilty of an assault when he said : " Were it not for the bloody policeman outside , I would split your head open . " |