Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their first years together were a time of grinding poverty . |
| 2 | So were a group of medical general practitioners who claimed that changes in their contracts would seriously damage the health of patients . |
| 3 | Everyone who lived in the house was there , and so were a number of other friends and neighbours of Doris 's . |
| 4 | Elizabeth was very angry , and so were a lot of the Scots lords . |
| 5 | True , he was a vital part of the 2nd Div side but then so were a lot of players who really were n't up to it when it came to Div I. It was , as Wilko realised a totally different ball-game . |
| 6 | Inside were a couple of building-society account books and a few bank notes . |
| 7 | Inside were a couple of benches , and several villagers were sitting patiently waiting for him , while an old man sat at the door smoking a smelly little pipe . |
| 8 | His words alone were a surprise . |
| 9 | When X-rays were taken there sure enough was a needle . |
| 10 | Opposite was a photograph of a large country house and the lines : ‘ It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife . ’ |
| 11 | This apparently was a night for a lot of ‘ firsts ’ . |
| 12 | Running alongside was a trade fair . |
| 13 | Walter Long was a country gentleman who played up to that image for all he was worth , using Henry Chaplin- " the squire — as his political model . |
| 14 | He went off on a political career and before long was a Member of the European Parliament , always in the news as he made himself available for interviews and revealed a great flair for leading controversial campaigns . |
| 15 | They 're always surprised when I tell them there is no bread being baked , but that at one time the room below was a kitchen . |
| 16 | Below was a sea of unbroken cloud like endless mountain ranges . |
| 17 | Below was a boot containing a folding camp bed of polished steel ‘ of commodious size with a tester-top and on castors ’ and so constructed that it ‘ could be folded up in a minute . ’ |
| 18 | So construed , a specific issue order means what the cognoscenti always thought that it meant but , since one member of the other group , the ‘ incognoscenti , ’ perhaps was a bit puzzled by it in the first place , I thought it was worthwhile to clarify the matter on this occasion . |
| 19 | This perhaps was a feature of the Forest of Dean , where four holdings out of five could have been occupied by their owners ( who lived in the same townships ) and many belonged to men worth less than £2 . |
| 20 | In fact , in this company division , cost-accounting had in recent years become pre-eminently a pre-investment activity , but this obviously was a function of the nature of the business . |
| 21 | Not only was a loan of 7,000 gold coins made , but the repayment was subsequently remitted . |
| 22 | Her breasts were eaten with leprosy and so was a part of her face . |
| 23 | So was a lullaby , played on a guitar . |
| 24 | His sons were there and so was a concourse of knights so huge that it reminded men of his Coronation . |
| 25 | The service from Mitcham to London was shown with this symbol , but so was a service from Tooting Junction to Willesden , over which the Company 's cars had to run ‘ dead ’ to reach Hendon Works , but could not have run in service . |
| 26 | So was a lot , was a lot of lot of stuff made for the Army then ? |
| 27 | Cheerful idleness was a thing of the past — and so was a readiness for whole hearted participation in activities unrelated to the business of getting grades . |
| 28 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 29 | The lady who took me in was a widow with a son of about my age who hardly ever spoke . |
| 30 | Now the last one they did n't they did n't get in was a majority . |