Example sentences of "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| 2 | Again , there was a slight hiccup when the entire Leyland Class 155 fleet were withdrawn for almost a year with door troubles ; they opened while the train was running .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 ! |