Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were a warning . |
| 2 | The words were a kind of balm . |
| 3 | Clear words were a matter of practical rather than juridical significance ; they were not the essential constitutive element in trusts but invaluable evidence as to the intentions at law of the settlor . |
| 4 | The words were a train of thought suggested by the music , by Neil 's guitar line . |
| 5 | His first words were a salute to the people of South Africa , to whom he declared : " I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you , the people . |
| 6 | Her hands were on his shoulders and she was pleading , but the words were a blur in the swirling mist of need and pain that engulfed him . |
| 7 | Its guidlines state that the bypass would have to be within a hundred yards of the road or the conditions intolerable before the property would be bought , though the Judge Mr Justice Latham said that in his view those guidelines were a shambles . |
| 8 | These Yanks were a puzzle to me . |
| 9 | Instead , his side were a shambles again , a disgrace . |
| 10 | God knows , he was a grisly mess : the back of his head and legs were a mass of wounds . |
| 11 | Its principal avowed aim was to give legislative form to the decision , contrary to the recommendation of the Law Commission , 46 and thereby allow the parties in these ‘ tragic cases ’ the dignity of a decree of nullity so that , if thought fit , provision for ancillary relief could be made by the court , and the unsavoury examination of their sexuality , rendered necessary if the only recourse were a declaration of status , could be avoided . |
| 12 | Large companies are facing price increases averaging 20 p.c. this year and say that efforts to cushion the rises through a recent Nuclear Electric auction were a flop . |
| 13 | Security Council resolutions aimed at getting the Iraqis out of Kuwait were a model of collective action against aggression . |
| 14 | In the one in which the client 's objective was rejected the clients were a brother and sister whose father had died . |
| 15 | Distance and impossibility were a help . |
| 16 | She quoted an education lecturer , " if Risinghill were a country place , the natural conditions of rural life would throw the teacher into the community , but in London social conditions do not do this ; unless you see it as a need , you would go along quite happily thinking the community is not part of your job " ( Berg 1968:273 ) . |
| 17 | It is disputed whether these onion domes were a development indigenous to the area or whether the idea came from further east , but the former seems more likely on the weight of evidence ; they were being built by the mid-twelfth century here and were designed in a great variety of shapes and in large numbers . . |
| 18 | The companies chosen for the study were a creamery , an oil platform , an NHS hospital , a construction site , and a transport company . |
| 19 | William Bartlemas and Kevin O'Rourke were a legend in the world of British theatre . |
| 20 | According to him , the Black and Tans were a terror force , hastily recruited from ex-soldiers to carry out a policy of naked and bloody reprisals against the IRA . |
| 21 | For all the warnings of the conservationists , the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were a period of unparalleled expansion in the consumption of resources . |
| 22 | In 1939 , as in the 1920s , any imports that could conceivably be replaced by nationally produced goods had to be reduced to a minimum or stopped altogether , even if the result were a reduction in quality . |
| 23 | By necessity and by choice the Jews were a race apart , the only group entirely segregated from the rest of the community . |
| 24 | I have always thought boils were a symptom of the first signs of scurvy , caused by a lack of ascorbic acid , vitamin C. Surely diet , rather than lesions and subsequent infection , is a much more important factor ? |
| 25 | Australian-born Peter and partner David Halls were a hit with viewers who loved the jokey attitude to cooking . |
| 26 | The government 's bill proposed that the President should mediate in disputes between the government and the Sejm ; such disputes were a feature of the outgoing parliament . |
| 27 | If the map of Leicestershire were a face it would have a few small pimples on its chin and they would take fifty years to come to a head . |
| 28 | And if there had been no synthetic drugs to control the resistant strains , would the decline of streptomycin have been taken to prove that antibiotics were a waste of time because organisms adapted to them too easily ? |
| 29 | To Chapman 's horror , Arsenal were a goal down fifteen minutes from the interval , to deafening cheers from the home supporters that could be heard for miles around . |
| 30 | At that stage Arsenal were a point behind Everton , with a match in hand . |