Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may , however , have been a diminution in tribute and revenues from possibly less securely held border regions and it would be surprising if the political problems of this period were not at least a factor in what has been called a ‘ drastic economic collapse ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You said you were here for just a week ? ’ |
| 3 | Despite the fact that he was personally on only the periphery of the Polanski affair , he was caught up in the backwash , in the resultant discussion of the wider issues of the counter-culture , and it was in this category that the critics had firmly placed their new star as the analysis of his role in Easy Rider continued through the run-up to the Oscar presentations and beyond . |
| 4 | She was outside for just a second . |
| 5 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 6 | The operation had apparently been quite straightforward ; Kirsty was home in under a week and back at work after a month , with no obvious after-effects . |
| 7 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 8 | It would have clinched the identification as Apollo , which is probably correct : a head was found in the temple of Apollo at Cyrene ; and the long , braided hair bound round the head , though a fashion of gilded youth at the beginning of the century ( the fair-haired boy , fig. 70 ) , was probably by now a sign of divine or heroic status ( cf. fig. 79 ) . |
| 9 | There was also at least a century of crossing with Shorthorn , Hereford , Aberdeen Angus and Red Poll . |
| 10 | Well a couple of weeks and I was off on embarkation leave , and then I was back for about a week and we were gone . |
| 11 | Crawford had been ordered to take a few days ' rest after pulling a leg muscle , but he was back after only a day , filming at the Piazzale del Faro . |
| 12 | He was back in just a couple of minutes , and his face was set into dark , angry lines . |
| 13 | He himself was here for only a day or two . |
| 14 | It was there for just a second or two , then it moved away quickly . |
| 15 | So I erm , I erm , was put into the Royal Army Pay Corp and posted up to Barnet , North London and I was there for quite a while , we all transferred down to Winchester . |
| 16 | And he was there for quite a while . |
| 17 | And er he was there for quite a number of years and then went to just for a few years , and came back to Galashiels to work with the same firm and then he started business on his own . |
| 18 | And erm I was there for about a year . |