Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] was a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past if you wanted to get spiders out of your bath you could either patiently try to tempt them … or take action that was a little more drastic . |
| 2 | There 's no doubt that the club that was a major success in us winning so many European titles , Liverpool , is in a transitional stage . |
| 3 | In fact , as of July 1991 , only one concentration that was a merger in the traditional sense of the word , which was between two Japanese banks , had been notified to the Commission ; the rest were concerned concentrations that came within the wider definition . |
| 4 | After a leisurely breakfast she showered and dressed in black leggings and a loose cherry-red sweater that was a perfect contrast to her dark hair , then at ten o'clock precisely her doorbell sounded and she locked her flat and ran lightly down the stairs . |
| 5 | I was engaged to be married once , an engagement that was a mistake and I was lucky to get out of without too much trouble and then I met you and that is the sum total of my ‘ sexual demands ’ as you put it . |
| 6 | What I was saying was , just that like , they had all these pieces of furniture in there , it was supposed to be a suite , but my mum , my mum got round and tell you every single piece that was a different colour or the wrong shape , or did n't fit on the pedestal properly , or this and that , and she had the whole lot changed at least three times . |
| 7 | She had black eyes , black brows and a mouth that was a bold slash of dark red against the pale — almost white — matt of her make-up . |
| 8 | It had two small , dark holes for eyes , a straight nose , and an open mouth that was a slash of darkness . |
| 9 | ‘ But we had one old country horse that was a bit of a nuisance — a big mare . |
| 10 | It was like a drain where the dregs and filth exuded from all the other prisons in the land had been gathered together ; the human refuse brushed aside and locked up in an institution that was a dustbin for the unwanted and unmanageable . |
| 11 | He had the gift of displaying Christian courtesy and kindness and was a generous contributor to all church funds . |
| 12 | Bulleid was closely involved with innovations and developments in locomotives and rolling stock and was a pioneer in the application of welding , including its use for boilers . |
| 13 | He absolutely loved his digger and was a driver all of his working life . |
| 14 | The results of what followed have led Ivan Koltsov , who led the research and was a Member of the Geographical Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences , to announce that there was no longer any doubt that what had been found beneath the monastery at the Alexandrov settlement was indeed Ivan the Terrible 's library containing priceless works of art . |
| 15 | She generated great warmth and friendship and was a quote social animal unquote . |
| 16 | Conde had been Serrano 's closest adviser and was a major negotiator in peace talks with the guerrillas , a role which he was to retain but with his authority sharply diminished . |
| 17 | In 1985 he wrote the famous No Turning Back pamphlet and was a member of the Adam Smith Omega Project which drafted the privatisation blueprint for the second Thatcher government . |
| 18 | The Green Study though was a perfect place for writing ; again panelled , the panelling painted a celadon green , one of its windows looked over the garden and caught all the sun , the other over a side courtyard and away across the huddled roofs of Mermaid Street to Winchelsea , another ancient town . |
| 19 | Before I got my bike that was a problem , because there was a distance of three miles from Middleton in Teesdale to the farm . |
| 20 | If this guitar were mine , I 'd be tempted to experiment , probably starting with Seymour Duncan Alnico Pro IIs , and then maybe I 'd end up with a guitar that was a perfect cross between the JD and the Signature . |
| 21 | She had the first and second floor of a thin , dilapidated building that was a ruin above the third storey . |
| 22 | In an exactly similar perhaps resewn dress of dark green voile and net , a necklace that was a heart of green cut-glass , and jade ear pendants , her black hair flowing from tortoiseshell combs , her face smoothly powdered , lids black , lips crimson : Ruth . |
| 23 | ‘ I see , ’ he said , his face adopting that wiped-clean look that was a deliberte mask for his feelings . |
| 24 | Tom Scotland flew 62 ops from Italy with a Pathfinder squadron ( 614 ) ; his autobiography is a story of his search for truth , for something that would enable him to make sense out of all the destruction and chaos that was a part of wartime life . |
| 25 | A century earlier , in Shakespeare 's day , that world had been a mysterious place ; Othello could tell his travellers ' tales of the men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders and , while the references to Bermuda in The Tempest were up-to-the-minute , they came in a play that was a collection of fairy stories . |
| 26 | She scarcely took in the bloody mass that was a face . |
| 27 | During the first days of that Holy Week Mrs Abigail continued to believe that she could not endure a marriage that was a travesty , and that she could no longer endure life in Dynmouth . |
| 28 | Erm , to cut a long story short , if a attractive Fairfax erm , individual enterprise came up , we would be far more interested than taking a stake that was a , just an investment . |
| 29 | Finvarra possessed great intelligence and was a famed chess-player . |
| 30 | The old front-drive model could n't muster much dry-road grip and was a terrible understeerer in the wet . |