Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because the need to reform was felt to arise from the normal attitude of aristocrats in the Germanic world that churches which they had helped to establish were a part of their material property . |
| 2 | Other objects found were a purse and pottery and coffin nails . |
| 3 | The only explicit courses in initial training for subject specialists other than language teachers mentioned were a PGCE unit for drama students at a Polytechnic ( for nine students : no. of hours not listed ) , and a 20 hour course for 10 PGCE students of economics at a College . |
| 4 | I thought I was getting David and maybe a few personal possessions , but when he actually turned up , he was with a friend in a very large van , and this rather ethereal , thin , slightly spotty figure that was David in those days , dressed in extremely scruffy clothes , emerged from this van carrying a twelve string guitar , which it transpired was a present from Pete Townshend . |
| 5 | The onle thing we ever ownd was a hamster and he got dun in by Mr Blackadder . |
| 6 | The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage . |
| 7 | The cushions I was lying on were plastic-covered , but they were adorably comfortable since all I 'd expected was a paving slab . |
| 8 | Trundling along the lane they entered was a line of galvanized garbage trucks , empty and snaking on their rounds to collect the day 's debris . |
| 9 | The beach at Barra ( population 1500 ) was a different story from the day before — blue sky and lesser wind , so landing was a routine non-event . |
| 10 | The challenge to academic painting that impressionism posed was a challenge both in form and in content . |
| 11 | To the outside world what was happening was a tightening-up of some matters , a clearing out of unexamined clutter and the creation of a sense of accountability . |
| 12 | In fact what he really wanted to meet was a dragon , but an elf would do . |
| 13 | Twelve teachers and an Indian doctor and his wife were allowed back , in what Reuters news agency reported was a move by Iran to resolve a major dispute with Arab states . |
| 14 | She began to relax a little as she neared the department where she worked , then realised that any vague notion that she might slip into her office without anyone noticing was a non-starter — everybody seemed to be looking at her ! |
| 15 | Er a a and with a family row in in it as well you can imagine the work involved was a bit more than initially might have been expected and I got criticized because the bill was bigger than I had first estimated cos I did n't expect there 'd be trouble from the father . |
| 16 | Once again the lady involved was a Quaker . |
| 17 | ‘ Also included was a re-assessment of the distance offshore that our fleet could provide effective cover . |
| 18 | On each different type of timber veneer used was a tablet , making the type and its origin known to the passengers . |
| 19 | The material used was a styrene-butadiene-styrene ( SBS ) block copolymer which had been extruded . |
| 20 | And what he found was a woman who understood him a great deal better than his wife ever did . ’ |
| 21 | It took months — and the best financial brains in New York — to unravel his dealings and what they found was a web of debt — and worse . |
| 22 | When pressed as to why he thought this was , he got on to what I later found was a cause he would die for . |
| 23 | There were no signposts and maps were not to be trusted , but the greatest hazard he encountered was a swarm of locusts which had taken possession of five miles of the road . |
| 24 | All around the head of the minister-with-the-film-star looks was a nimbus , or brightly-shining halo . |
| 25 | ‘ The alternate endings are about as different as they could be ’ , Gurr concludes , ‘ yet all Shakespeare changed was a speech heading ’ . |
| 26 | Nor was it in 1967 , when decisions to disenfranchise as well as to enfranchise were a possibility . |
| 27 | While I was then involved with technical assistance to LDCs , I was responding to what I believed was a window of opportunity for our Institute . |
| 28 | The ability to lead was a characteristic once associated with nobility , an attribute of social rank . |
| 29 | What they added was a sense of grandeur — they took blues licks and put them on a epic scale . |
| 30 | What they added was a sense of grandeur — they took blues licks and put them on a epic scale . |