Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] a [noun] was " in BNC.

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1 The proposed cuts had led to talk of its closure but today a reprieve was announced .
2 Another deadly volley of canister and scarcely a man was left on his feet and capable of charging even had he wanted to do so .
3 ‘ It was a bloody business but eventually a breach was forced in the defences and Bartholomew led us through . ’
4 There is plenty of evidence for the planting of new vineyards in the Bordelais and even a Poitevin was prepared to admit that Bordeaux wine was of superb quality , but at this date by far the most important wine-exporting region was further north , in Aunis and Saintonge .
5 The whole is tied together by the notion of control although later a distinction was to be made between the authority of office and the authority of expertise .
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