Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If sellers were given too generous a price , it would reduce the value of the trust for those still holding units . |
| 2 | The sidings were situated about half a mile away and there was a water-tower nearby . |
| 3 | Again you , you never felt that you were , because you were doing that , you never had the feeling that perhaps you were becoming too much a part of management rather than er simply representing work or did you simply see it as part of your , your job to look after the incentive scheme in that way because it did er that was a part of representing the workforce ? |
| 4 | I will , I will mention , I did n't know they were sending out such a letter , otherwise I would have er , told them in advance . |
| 5 | Britons Harry Taylor , Mal Duff , Mike Smith and American Bill Pelkey were carrying just half a tent and minimal oxygen when they made their final push . |
| 6 | By 1921 indeed frustration with coalition was building up such a head of steam as seriously to threaten its future . |
| 7 | Morrison South was the subject of our most disappointing decision of the year when it became apparent that our continuing effort to sell homes from a few geographically diverse sites in southern California into a very weak market was proving too expensive a strategy . |
| 8 | That she was looking her best , or that Ven appreciated her appearance was made thrillingly clear a minute later , when she entered the sitting-room . |
| 9 | Scott , he said , must have specified Portland stone for his Gothic scheme , ‘ little knowing that he was fostering so deadly a foe to the architecture he was using ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Anna sat her finals in the summer and was leading as normal a life as possible until recently when the disease began to get much worse . |
| 11 | After basic religious toleration was conceded in 1689 , the dissenters turned their back once and for all on Anglicanism and went on to develop the distinctive spirituality which was to play so dynamic a role in the revolutionary social and economic changes of the next century . |
| 12 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 13 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 14 | The key was to draw as firm a distinction as possible between the mirza and ordinary folk . |
| 15 | Mr Dunn , of Springvale Road , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough , was pulled about half a mile out to sea . |
| 16 | The first they saw of the village may thus have been the dilapidated thatched cottage called Gilberts or Gilbards , which , improbable as it would have seemed to Coleridge in the fever of Pantisocracy , was to have so important a place in his later history . |
| 17 | Certainly the Bevanites could claim that rearmament was imposing too great a strain on the economy . |