Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spanish victory of Bailén ( July 1808 ) was the inevitable consequence of Napoleon 's belief that the conquest of Spain was a police operation that could be entrusted to inferior troops . |
| 2 | So there 's a good year and a half at Southwell so I know the area , in fact I was over at Southwell when Simon was a police officer , covering the area . |
| 3 | A few years ago Saunderson was a tele-communications student at the local East Michigan University . |
| 4 | Mills died on Melia 's 20th birthday and he recalls that when he was a child , Freddie was a boys ' idol and boys used to pretend to be him . |
| 5 | But we never really believed that John Major was a sports fan until we saw him on that bleak Sunday afternoon at Stamford Bridge . |
| 6 | Once Abdi was a cattle farmer . |
| 7 | When I was a very small boy , the shop next to Mr. White was a fishmongers but in the early twenties it was acquired by Mr. & Mrs. Prewett who opened a fish and chip establishment . |
| 8 | White was an hours student due to take his college entrance exams in only days : a place at university was his constant consuming dream . |