Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [was/were] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although the Chelsea star sustained serious injury , the Reds were awarded a freekick . |
| 2 | However , the similarities were more compelling than the differences : and , by chance , the courts were considering a case of valuer 's negligence at the same time . |
| 3 | In short Lipski said that the Germans were manipulating a crisis in order to renege on their debts to Poland . |
| 4 | The plans were to include a vestry , church parlour , toilets and classrooms and the estimated cost was placed at £15,000 . |
| 5 | The first was a penalty try awarded when local scrum-half Bobby Murrell strayed offside as the Lions were pushing a scrum over the line . |
| 6 | The roads were becoming a pleasure to travel on after centuries of neglect . |
| 7 | As the fund manager launched a campaign to sell its ‘ optimum income trust ’ — a new variation on an old theme , the split trust — the authorities were orchestrating a base rate rise and the stock market is now providing stark illustration of how equities and climbing interest rates do not mix . |
| 8 | But he argued : ‘ I do n't know why the fans were having a go at me . |
| 9 | Opposite the Italian Village , the Norwegians were building a hospital but had to leave because of lack of supplies . |
| 10 | The dose equivalence for plasma potassium concentration , tremor , and particularly FEV 1 fell with increasing doses of salmeterol as would be expected if the responses were reaching a plateau . |
| 11 | But in the doubles the youngsters were given a chance and grabbed their moment of glory . |
| 12 | A spoonful of yellow mustard was added and — oh joy of joys — as the feet were immersed a feeling of transcendent pleasure stole over you . |
| 13 | At p. 254 he explained how the judges were using a power derived from the Crown as the fountain of justice when they conferred authority on the benchers of the Inns of Court to act as their delegates in maintaining the discipline of the Bar . |
| 14 | His procedure for testing the properties of the target flavour was one in which the rats were given a choice between this flavour and some other . |
| 15 | The robots were doing a lot of turning people back , and the guard-manned point was thronged with a wedge-shaped queue of complaining travellers . |
| 16 | This evening I visited Scouse 's latrine , the mosquitoes and all the flies were having a fieldday ; there were clouds of them hanging over the latrine in the still evening air . |
| 17 | She would be pleased that the orphans were having a Christmas in the bosom of a family , since Christmas is a time for families . |
| 18 | The 15-year-olds were offered a lift , but the only English word they knew was Cobham . |
| 19 | By the end of our fieldwork , however , all the teams were offering a variety of schemes of one or two weeks duration in the summer and some additional provision was made at Easter and Christmas . |
| 20 | I realized also with a jolt that the dancers were wearing a motley of costumes representing centuries of brief encounters with the West — from seventeenth-century Portuguese ruffles round their throats , down to modern trainers on their feet . |
| 21 | ‘ The holidaymakers were having a party and one of the prisoners went and asked them to keep the noise down . |
| 22 | When the Forum for Educational Research in Scotland was inaugurated in 1986 , one of the aims was to provide a way in which teachers and others working in education could contribute to the identification of priorities for educational research . |
| 23 | ‘ The obituaries were written a bit quickly , ’ said Paul Heaton , senior analyst at Smith New Court in Tokyo . |
| 24 | The main intention of the tutorials was to highlight a variety of aspects of narrative organisation , with special emphasis on isolating the cohesive devices exhibited by the text . |
| 25 | During the interval , while one of the barmen was taking a mop and bucket to the front of the stage where everybody had been spitting , I went up to the bar to get some more drinks . |
| 26 | The teachers were taught a lesson . |
| 27 | The landlords were given a bonus of twelve per cent to induce them to sell . |
| 28 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 29 | the hills the tracks were slippy with mud … the streams were running a foot higher than normal with flood water … a recipe for a race to remember … |
| 30 | Well , I , I 'd say one thing by illustration from our own situation er we were transferring bulk and I felt that was singularly unfair because the members were given a choice . |