Example sentences of "[conj] were a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were made to wartime restrictions , wooden seats and erm mass produced really , erm there was none of the erm cushioned seats at all , that were a part of the feature during th before the war . |
| 2 | Any other things that were a problem about that clip ? |
| 3 | But she 's still pretty young — I 'd like to see her in clothes that were a bit more her age . |
| 4 | Now what what were the bits that were a bit tricky then ? |
| 5 | Well Johnny 's supposed to have had one that were a fortnight ago . |
| 6 | They had gone to bed after enjoying those mountains of rice and bowls of curried concoctions , no doubt , that were a feature of expatriates ' meals in the east , when shouts and running feet stirred Bernard Callinan from his sleep . |
| 7 | By … that were a fight to remember . |
| 8 | It got rid of nationalised monopolies that were a drain on taxpayers , allowed the people to own them and ensured services improved . |
| 9 | He had heard the complaints of women in labour , and the groans of pleasure that were a prelude to their misery . |
| 10 | A well-observed story , with admirable performances , Two Left Feet gave Crawford some comical scenes that were a prelude to his later role as Frank Spencer on television . |
| 11 | Many with memories of school retreats that were a matter of being silent and often boring , wonder about the different types of retreat they hear about today . |
| 12 | When at last he came down to Egypt , Joseph showed him all the love and respect that were a father 's due , all the love and respect that Ham had failed so conspicuously to show to Noah . |
| 13 | Such reclining figures , clasping either a cornucopia or an urn ( and sometimes both ) , date back to at least the mid-sixteenth century ( for example at the Villa Lante at Bagnaia in Italy ) and were a commonplace in late seventeenth-century Baroque gardens ( for example at Vaux-le-Vicomte , Versailles and Het Loo ) . |
| 14 | And were a scream to rise in her , would she manage to suppress it before it shot from her mouth ? |
| 15 | In recent years a broad spectrum of Filipino opinion — ranging from conservative nationalists to the communist NPA — had opposed the presence of the bases on the grounds that they were an affront to the sovereignty of the Philippines and were a vestige of the country 's past colonial relationship with the USA . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the band has split up now , and were a year older than and I , so they have already left Debenham High School , and there is no-one of similar standard to replace them . |
| 17 | He said that credit costs had been rising partly as a reaction to global inflationary fears , but that the current high interest rates were necessary and appropriate and were a way of keeping inflation in check . |
| 18 | Unless you were a Pet Shop Boy and were a roadie . |
| 19 | The Sun , top seller by 1989 , was a tabloid relaunch , twenty years previously , of an ailing broadsheet paper with an entirely different character , some of whose readers nevertheless stayed with it and were a base on which the new ownership could build . |
| 20 | Modern constitutional European national governments expressed the maturing of humanity from the stages of felt reason and subjective consciousness , and were a proof of God 's journey towards self-perfection . |
| 21 | To claim that Britain has nurtured something in a matter ultimately pertaining to worship ( the choral singing of cathedral and chapel ) which is purified and controlled beyond anything possessed by Catholic Europe , which is purged of excessive artifice and rhetoric ( Continental reviewers consistently find English a cappella performances impassive ) and whose excellence gives Britain a mission these are among the ideas that have been the principal source of British national identity since the Act of Union in 1707 and were a foundation stone of English identity long before . |
| 22 | ‘ We have played well there so far and were a bit unlucky not to beat Norway and Holland . ’ |
| 23 | Then , as they looked a little bit further and were a bit more adventurous , they found that there were some more interesting molecules such as alcohol . |
| 24 | Equity regarded the distinction as of less importance , in the sense that if a representation were untrue , whether to the knowledge of its maker or not , and were a material factor in inducing another party to enter into a contract with him , that party was entitled to rescind the contract if he were plaintiff , or resist specific performance if he were defendant . |
| 25 | After being sold by de Boisset 's estate in 1777 , they were subsequently acquired by Alexander , Tenth Duke of Hamilton , and were a highlight of the great Hamilton Palace dispersal at Christie 's in 1882 . |
| 26 | The peasants ' allotments were significantly smaller than those they had used before Emancipation ; the ‘ cut-offs ’ withheld by landlords were particularly large in the fertile black-earth regions and were a source of intense and lasting bitterness . |
| 27 | I was seventeen , and most of the other students in my year had done military service and were a lot older . |
| 28 | Without doubt the two machines were a marvellous achievement , but were a response to a mission requirement that had been overtaken by events and missile technology . |
| 29 | The public needed to be made aware that prostitutes were not ‘ soiled doves ’ , but were a class of women who were almost ‘ unsexed ’ and had lost all ‘ womanly feeling ’ , consorting with as many as ‘ eight to twelve different men in the same night ’ . |
| 30 | Real growth of 3 per cent and an unemployment rate of 4.7 per cent were predicted , as were a reduction in the net budget deficit to 3.5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) , with a long-term aim of a reduction to 2.5 per cent by 1992 as laid down in the SPÖ-ÖVP joint programme of 1987 [ see p. 35088 ] . |