Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ran the race as if we were competing in a 100 metres , charging full tilt at the bends . |
| 2 | During the dispute in 1984 , striking miners travelling in convoy on the motorway in Nottinghamshire were stopped within a few miles of four collieries . |
| 3 | Since he had been commissioned in November 1858 , he had ‘ almost wholly devoted ’ himself to the building , and tenders were expected in a few days . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The elections were deemed by foreign observers to have been held without widescale irregularities , although cases were reported in a few localities . |
| 6 | More than 200 residents were evacuated to a nearby police station . |
| 7 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 8 | The last two — works of completely contrasting character — were written within a few weeks of each other . |
| 9 | Originally ascribed to the 1660s it now seems highly likely that they date from the 1630s and were made within a few years of each other . |
| 10 | Most of those applications were made in a few weeks . |
| 11 | They were persuaded after a few days to go back to far-off Shaanxi province and continue to do their duty in their ‘ adopted rural home ’ . |
| 12 | The book was a success : 500,000 copies were sold in a few years , and it was translated into all the major European languages . |
| 13 | In the past , the young store cattle were sold after a few months to farmers on the UK mainland but recently the EEC has guaranteed high prices for beef and so many farmers have fattened their calves on their own farms . |
| 14 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 15 | It was nearly dark when we left Fontanellato and , with no lights about , it was hard to know where we were going after a few kilometres . |
| 16 | When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that . |
| 17 | Miss Thomas was laid out on a pavement and the police were summoned from a nearby police station . |
| 18 | In other words , we were set for a few laughs . |
| 19 | Jayne Mansfield 's were insured for a million dollars . |
| 20 | The results were announced at a special awards luncheon at The Savoy and the girls received their trophy in front of an audience of top chefs and leading personalities in the catering industry . |
| 21 | The defences were increased by a million metres of barbed wire and extensive minefields in 1912 . |
| 22 | These differences were associated with a higher CSI ( 1.44 ( 0.33 ) v 1.13 ( 0.14 ) , p<0.05 ) and a greater vesicular cholesterol distribution ( 19.7 ( 11.9 ) v 4.4 ( 1.4 ) % , p<0.01 ) in the patients with cholesterol gall stones than the gall stone free patients . |
| 23 | The writer knows of no case prior to 1964 in which exemplary damages were awarded in a personal injuries claim . |
| 24 | 3.24 A case in which aggravated damages were awarded in a personal injuries claim was Westwood v Hardy ( 1964 ) The Times , 24 June . |
| 25 | His legs were impaled with a thousand needles of pine and hemlock ; hemlock cones and crabapple were strapped to his waist . |
| 26 | But what he did come to recognise was the inadequacy of existing literature : ‘ I realised that the main writers on history and statistics at the time had done very little research and were relying on a few books . |
| 27 | At Lien College school leavers were participating in a rural skills course which included carpentry , forestry , metal work , building skills and fish farming as well as agriculture . |
| 28 | Reductions of between 80 and 93% were achieved within a few weeks . |
| 29 | Generally , the operational data ( that is the policy records ) were destroyed within a few years of their fulfilment . |
| 30 | Being driven into one town they were faced with a moving lights message over a bank giving in turn the temperature , date and ‘ Louisiana welcomes British canoeists George and Sylvie . ’ |