Example sentences of "[was/were] a [adj] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a sinister and often rehearsed entrance wearing a long cloak and looking like Count Dracula . |
| 2 | Industrial America was a pluralistic and highly organized society . |
| 3 | The certificate of divorce was a simple but eventually abused means of effecting the divorce procedure . |
| 4 | The Jacobite riot at Newcastle-under-Lyme in July 1715 was a well-planned and carefully staged affair , and one of the patrons seems to have been Ralph Sneyd , MP for Staffordshire . |
| 5 | Mr. Woodward said that there was a substantial and clearly defined trackway used by local traffic presently running parallel to the east of the track joining others to the west and north of the parish boundary . |
| 6 | He was a Venetian and therefore descended from men who had ruled and schemed and dominated the world for centuries . |
| 7 | His column ‘ Listen Here Awhile ’ was a regular and highly praised feature of this newspaper for years — a column which mirrored Ulster life as he wandered into the highways and byways of the province meeting what he called ‘ the old worthies ’ . |
| 8 | There is no doubt whatsoever that this expansionism was a deliberate and carefully controlled policy ; Charles did not fight defensive or reluctant wars . |
| 9 | There was a widespread and strongly held view that the CITB should be retained , but that its management should be streamlined and reformed . |
| 10 | Elliott was a long-serving and extremely experienced MI6 officer . |
| 11 | Coming between the poetic neo-romanticism of the war years and the potentially overwhelming influence of American abstraction , theirs was a quiet but genuinely felt and observed art which shows its strength by continuing to flourish in its unsensational way . |
| 12 | Off the field he was a quiet and relatively withdrawn family man , but with the ball at his feet and open space in front of him he became a demon . |
| 13 | Judge Ian Starforth Hill told Jones it was an ingenious and well thought out plot . |
| 14 | What held the two men together — apart from that click of friendship — was an unaffected and deeply worked love for Henry IV , Parts I and II and Henry V . |