Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the houses in the village were quite large , with shutters which were only opened for a few hours in the mornings ; if there was a breeze long lace curtains could be seen gently moving . |
| 2 | Inventories were normally taken within a few days or weeks of the testator 's death . |
| 3 | Senior ministerial posts were also given to a former Environment Minister , Padraig Flynn , and two junior ministers dismissed with Reynolds in November , Maire Geoghegan Quinn and Michael Smith . |
| 4 | The major industrial developments were heavily concentrated in a few key areas of the Empire . |
| 5 | BBC journalists took strike action in protest , and the programme was eventually screened with a few face-saving deletions , but the episode called into question the Board of Governor 's commitment to freedom of expression . |
| 6 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 7 | Unfortunately the cup was only awarded for a few years before that too disappeared . |
| 8 | Lepine was not cremated for a few days yet , until after the despatch of a couple of his victims also being tended to at the Côte-Des-Neiges cemetery , opposite the mountain , alongside the University of Montreal , where Marc Lepine joined his victims in the silence at the centre . |
| 9 | The accident occurred late on Tuesday or early on Wednesday but was not discovered until a few survivors emerged and bodies began floating ashore . |
| 10 | Gas gangrene , for which an effective cure was not discovered till a few weeks before the Armistice , claimed an ever-increasing toll ; during the April fighting on the Right Bank , one French regiment had thirty-two officers wounded of whom no fewer than nineteen died subsequently , mostly from gas gangrene . |
| 11 | Local information suggests that it was occasionally worked for a few years after this , but by the 1950s had stopped completely . |
| 12 | Well , it was actually started by a few railway men , th right opposite Street there used to be hand laundry , and then there was a row of houses , from there , running up to the corner of Street where the club stands originally , but in the beginning it was just a row of small houses , and it started with a few railway men having a meet holding the meetings in this house , in these houses , and I 've got very dim memories of how it actually started but it was a real event when they were first , before they actually built the club it was run in the row of houses that ran from up Street as I say there was a little hand laundry corner of Street heading onto Street on the left hand side was the greengrocers , and that , they kept that greengrocers for as long as I can remember . |