Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The survey also notes that : ‘ Compensation for temporary travel and living costs , transportation of personal and household effects and disturbance allowances were given by only a minority of companies ’ . |
| 2 | Again , there was a slight hiccup when the entire Leyland Class 155 fleet were withdrawn for almost a year with door troubles ; they opened while the train was running . |
| 3 | In 1907 local cooperative branches were petitioned to forward a resolution to congress in support of the women 's franchise . |
| 4 | At Peking we were met by quite a delegation of people , and sat down at the airport for some formal introductions and speeches . |
| 5 | Autoradiographs of bleomycin cleavage were scanned with either a Joyce Loebl Chromoscan III or a Hoefer GS300 microdensitometer . |
| 6 | Last time out , all three were separated by only a couple of thousand votes . |
| 7 | Owain Williams led a Bridgend drive from a line-out and when Newport were penalised for off-side a swiftly-taken tapped penalty and deft passing gave Gareth Thomas the space to round his man and score wide out . |
| 8 | Something had happened to them — they were charged for just a while into being better than they were . |
| 9 | The seven connections surveyed above 11.2 , 1.3 ) were stated by both a conditional and its contrapositive . |
| 10 | Both were recorded within only a week of each other ! |
| 11 | When the 1983 demonstration arrived outside the CEGB , it was witnessed by just a handful of press : foreign TV , the Guardian , the Morning Star , and local radio . |
| 12 | The speaker who complained at the burden on small businesses was clapped by just a handful . |
| 13 | Not too long ago , property ownership was limited to just a minority — but today nearly two thirds of people in England and Wales live in their own homes , more than in many other countries . |
| 14 | Lowell Bayles paid $500 for the chance to fly the aircraft and it was completed with only a week to go to the National Air Races at Cleveland . |
| 15 | Day schooling was received by only a minority of children from the labouring classes , in some parishes a very tiny one . |
| 16 | The next year she was referred to both a chest physician and a cardiologist but no further investigations were done . |
| 17 | The effect that evening was that it hurt , especially as my supper was delayed for over an hour by blocked jets . |
| 18 | NEW ZEALAND , whose tour of Sri Lanka was delayed by nearly a week and then rescheduled after a bomb blast near their hotel , yesterday lost their opening game by 17 runs in Matara . |
| 19 | But the test was sat by only a handful of pupils because of a boycott by teaching unions . |
| 20 | A long-standing illness , disability or infirmity was reported by almost a quarter . |
| 21 | A long-standing illness , disability or infirmity was reported by almost a quarter . |
| 22 | In an elegant and scholarly catalogue entry , Christie 's included a reproduction of the relevant pages from the catalogue of the Aumont sale which lasted nine days and was preceded by nearly a month 's viewing . |
| 23 | Both women died instantly but Mark , who was trapped for almost an hour in the wreckage , was taken to Wexham Park Hospital , Slough , Berks , with severe chest and leg injuries . |
| 24 | By 1900 Darwin was acknowledged as the founder of evolutionism , but his theory of natural selection was accepted by only a minority of biologists . |
| 25 | Back here , his chance at Edgbaston , where last season he was selected for only a couple of first-class fixtures , came because Dermot Reeve was injured . |
| 26 | General de Gaulle , who had re-emerged unto the political scene , opposed the constitution and it was approved by only a minority of the electorate : 36 per cent voted ‘ for ’ , over 31 per cent ‘ against ’ , and 31 per cent abstained . |
| 27 | The legislation was postponed for nearly a year . |
| 28 | Its latest display was performed without even a fire extinguisher , but a top stuntman has warned that the act is highly dangerous . |
| 29 | It was she who was called upon when a neighbour had trouble at childbirth , or if good advice was being sought in matters of a domestic nature . |
| 30 | To determine the Ca 2 + sensitivity of K + channels in inside out patches , recordings were attempted after the Ca 2 + containing ( 1.2 mM ) high K + bath solution was replaced with either a Ca 2 + free high K + solution containing 5 mM EGTA ( Ca 2 + concentration 10 nM ) or an EGTA buffered high K + solution containing 1 µM Ca 2 + . |