Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were finally lifted in a second House of Lords ruling in October last year . |
| 2 | We were indeed able to confirm that pairs of dunnocks were often joined by a third bird in breeding , but this provided a mere foretaste of what was to come . |
| 3 | Those contents were then tipped into a second vessel containing cold water , which both stopped and cooled the reaction . |
| 4 | In the remaining 12 minutes ( four by the grace of Norling ) Oxford were too spent for a second comeback , but Cambridge were no doubt relieved that their efficient rucking and slick passing established such dominance in the first half . |
| 5 | Some of their football was remarkably composed for a Third Division side in adversity . |
| 6 | This was not maintained after a second night , and after the third night without sleep subjects provided with these incentives could perform no better than those not provided with incentives . |
| 7 | Well no , we got two in the sidelines , we got this Indian guy who was not coming for a second interview until we can say we 'll pay him |
| 8 | In fact he was still working on a first version of the fourth act ( which eventually became Act III ) when he sailed for New York on 24 September . |
| 9 | Andalucia was further affected by a third outbreak in two years of African equine fever at the end of July 1989 , which threatened the lives of large numbers of horses and raised doubts about equestrian events being held in Barcelona in the 1992 Olympics . |
| 10 | Yevgeny Primakov , the Deputy Foreign Minister recently prominent in Soviet mediation efforts to end the Gulf Conflict , was similarly rejected in a first round of voting , but was endorsed after he had been renominated . |
| 11 | He and his men had killed three Germans in this house when he burst into a back room and was probably killed by a fourth German hiding there , although he may have been hit from across the street . |
| 12 | He was also charged with a second offence of running a business in a condition which exposed food to the risk of contamination . |
| 13 | David was also approached by a second man but was not assaulted . |
| 14 | In any case the law was often viewed as a last resort , a clumsy , time-consuming , bureaucratic impediment that hindered order-maintenance on the street . |
| 15 | Heavy rain stopped everyone after 18 laps , so it was back to go for a second start . |
| 16 | It all seemed important at the time , but notwithstanding the subterranean implications , Five Easy Pieces established Nicholson beyond doubt as the most effective actor of his kind around , and he was immediately rewarded with a second nomination for an Oscar ; he did not win it but his very inclusion meant two in a row for a relative unknown , a situation unheard of in recent Hollywood history . |
| 17 | Among the successful opposition candidates was Hitoshi Motoshima , who was narrowly elected to a fourth term as mayor of Nagasaki . |
| 18 | In the general election of March 1990 the ALP was narrowly returned for a fourth successive term [ see pp. 37320-21 ; for final Senate results see p. 37876 ] . |
| 19 | The Dominica Freedom Party ( DFP ) , which came to power in 1980 , was narrowly returned for a third term in May 1990 , winning 11 seats . |
| 20 | The DFP was narrowly returned for a third term in May 1990 , winning 11 of the elective seats [ see pp. 37448 ; 37527 ] . |
| 21 | Even even if he was n't accepted on a first occasion he 's probably had another two or three attempts elsewhere . |
| 22 | I 'd promised myself then and there : I was n't going for a second appointment . |
| 23 | She rang again and was about to ring for a third time when the door was pulled abruptly open . |
| 24 | In 1989 the economy was adversely affected by a second year of drought as well as a plague of locusts , resulting in a much-reduced grain harvest and increased food imports ; unemployment rose and foreign investment fell . |
| 25 | In the bottom half of the draw Chris Wilkinson was again preparing for a second challenge to Jeremy Bates ' domination as he overcame strong challenges from Italy , South Africa and Sweden to reach his second final . |
| 26 | No one was seriously hurt in a second explosion early yesterday at Staples Corner in north-west London , but damage was severe and many roads are closed . |
| 27 | The tissue was subsequently transferred to a second beaker with 4 ml bovine calf serum ( Sigma Chemical Co Ltd ) added to inactivate the trypsin . |