Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August 1876 a boy was kicked by a horse in the stables at Clinkham and suffered a broken collarbone . |
| 2 | The tables show that an animal was at greatest risk of being stolen in the Low Country , but until around 1895 a person was more likely to steal an animal in the Intermediate area . |
| 3 | To achieve this a pump was installed beneath the railway bridge at New Bradwell Station . |
| 4 | In fen and fen-edge parishes such as this a half-yardlander was quite a wealthy man , for the generous nature of his common rights completely changed the value of his holding . |
| 5 | In 1933 a scheme was launched for classes to be held for schoolboys during the autumn term under the management of the Corinthians , the amateur club , with Arsenal as sponsors and Chapman taking classes in basic skills , positional play and training . |
| 6 | Several yeomen in Rutland were described as servants , while the Discourse of the Common Weal comments ‘ xl a yeare was good honeste wages for a yeoman afore this time , and xxd a wekes borde wages was sufficient ’ . |
| 7 | And the leg so he said , well half a leg was missing . |
| 8 | Top scorer , striker Dave Taylorhe netted 17 goals in just half a season was presented with a trophy and the special award by club chairman Iwan Jones went to defender Steve Smith . |
| 9 | In the 1890s a start was made when A. Harker of Cambridge University was employed to map the volcanic rocks of south Skye and H. B. Woodward , a senior officer of the English Survey , was sent to map the Jurassic rocks of Skye and Raasay . |
| 10 | Soon after 1620 a monument was erected to the memory of the first [ q.v. ] and second Barons Rich ( died 1568 and 1581 , Felsted , Essex ) which includes a series of reliefs illustrating scenes from the life of the first lord . |
| 11 | It did not seem possible that so lively a person was dead . |
| 12 | On Aug. 30 a bomb was detonated at a Berlin memorial commemorating victims of the holocaust . |
| 13 | His salary of 300 a year was adequate to his needs but the greater reward was in being a full-time Fascist at last . |
| 14 | In Part 2 a reward was defined as anything that a child will change behaviour to have . |
| 15 | In December 1985 a licence was granted to Anglo United and an associated company , Grenmore Holdings Ltd , to prospect 26 square kilometres in the Lough Beg area near Crumlin in Co . |
| 16 | In 1985 a match was played between the Society and the Club for the first time . |
| 17 | In 1753 a rule was introduced that no more could be removed than could be carried unbound under an arm . |
| 18 | Someone once said that a sign of how civilized a society was is shown in how they treated their old people . |
| 19 | Gregory and others saw in certain happenings which took place at this time the workings of divine providence : on one occasion the boat carrying one of his opponents sank ; on another a supporter was miraculously freed from prison ; and throughout his trial the princess Rigunth fasted on his behalf . |
| 20 | In January and February 1788 a subscription was promoted in such papers as the Lincoln , Rutland and Stamford Mercury and Williamson 's Liverpool Advertiser . |
| 21 | Such a concept was anathema to Hitler 's racial mania , and also clashed with the plans of Rosenberg , Minister for the Eastern Territories , who envisaged the break-up of the USSR into its constituent nationalities as a belt of client statelets for the containment of the surviving rump of Russia itself . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , the task force concluded that such a trial was not feasible . |
| 23 | Such a government was finally elected on 14 August 1949 after an intense election campaign . |
| 24 | Er in fact it was put to me as as an option by Superintendent that this could be , if this could be done er at the time er if I recall one of the reasons erm that we were n't able to do it in such a way was that there are numerous exits to the block of flats and each exit would have had to be covered by at least two armed officers we only only had in the region of twenty five officers available to us at that time in the police who were authorised to be armed and to maintain such a surveillance , erm not only would be very costly in the terms of the number of officers . |
| 25 | Such a vision was heavily normalizing . |
| 26 | Such a vision was of course racist , patriarchal and antidemocratic . |
| 27 | Such a vision was present in the preceding generation of modernists ; in Lionel Trilling , Irving Howe , Greenberg and Daniel Bell and others , many of whose political origins were Marxist . |
| 28 | Still , suppressing such a plague was n't the same as purging it totally . |
| 29 | Such a fragment was the Egyptian eighteenth dynasty crystalline limestone head of a queen or goddess , ( possibly Queen Mutnodjmet , according to Sotheby 's Dick Keresey ) . |
| 30 | Ceausescu 's aim in issuing such a threat was probably to frighten Hungary , but Romania already has the delivery system in the form of Soviet built Scud missiles and is believed to be developing its own missile with the help of Egypt and Iraq . |