Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] a [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the changes in my day when , when I was working , we 'd have some leaflets but they were written in a very er sort of technical way . |
| 2 | The shares were six times subscribed and opened at 193p , staying there for a second or two before going decisively through 200p ; at the year end they stood at 218p , a rise of 70% on the issue price , and were valued on a historic price/earnings multiple of 30.8 ( and yield of 1.4% ) . |
| 3 | Mixtures were electrophoresed through a native 5.1% polyacrylamide gel ( see Materials and Methods ) . |
| 4 | The p un +1Rn reversion of p un was recognized in a mottled pink-eyed-dilute///wild-type mosaic . |
| 5 | It was n't , it was n't regarded , it was regarded by a positivistic er , as just being er a big wall to stop barbarians er , attacking . |
| 6 | At Portsmouth , Crabb was met by a local MI6 officer , using the cover name ‘ Bernard Smith ’ , and together they booked in at the Sallyport Hotel where ‘ Smith ’ gave his address as ‘ c/o Foreign Office , London ’ . |
| 7 | The Greek revolt was seen as a symbolic er event as well as just an anti Turkish er erm uprising . |
| 8 | The look-out towers were provided with clocks , and the fortified entrance was turned into a long porte cochère with projecting canopies . |
| 9 | Blood pressure was measured with a COPAL UA251 electronic automatic auscultatory blood pressure reading machine ( Surgleon Ltd , Brighouse , West Yorkshire ) . |
| 10 | A new one was promised as a Christmas- cum -birthday present . |
| 11 | Versatility was underlined by a well-received jazz/blues section and , as an encore , the trio played a gentle rendering of Mark Knopfler 's Why Worry ? |
| 12 | In the general election of 1918 the Irish Parliamentary Party which had dominated Irish politics since the days of Parnell was routed by a reorganised Sinn Fein , many of whose members had fought in the 1916 Rising . |