Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact only two liaison groups in England met regularly from the beginning of 1985 ; from September 1985 meetings were arranged twice a term for these two groups . |
| 2 | The various fusion machines that a had been built were producing neutrons-supposedly a sign that fusion was taking place but the neutrons had nothing to do with thermonuclear reactions . |
| 3 | New pits were sunk at Dare ( 1870 ) and Bwllfa ( 1877 ) : by 1900 the four collieries of the Ocean Company were producing over a million and a half tons of coal annually , and many other pits had also been sunk profitably . |
| 4 | From each performance they were given either a fixed sum or collected money from the crowd for charity . |
| 5 | Each month lots were drawn for the names of the next families to leave , and the fortunate ones were given only a short time to make their final preparations . |
| 6 | Fourthly , the field workers were given only a few packets of ORS for distribution among the villagers . |
| 7 | Government proposals to solve the unrelieved surplus advance corporation tax problem suffered by companies with overseas operations were given only a guarded welcome . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Reading Council were lashing together a municipal PR exercise , using as a dodgy pretext the 400th anniversary of the destruction of the local abbey by Henry VIII . |
| 9 | When all were examined together a trend of increasing risk with lower social class was also found ( test for trend x=5.72 , p=0.02 ) . |
| 10 | He was involved in the same heavy round of duties as soon as he returned to London , however , and honorary positions were becoming increasingly a burden . |
| 11 | Futures dealers were carried away a little first thing , bidding the contract for June settlement up to 2680 — a 110-point premium to the cash market . |
| 12 | Each partner was to bring in £50 per share ; they were to meet once a month at least , with the accounts made up and settled every three months . |
| 13 | One minute they were pushing forward a couple of tentative singles on their own label ( The Far Out Recording Company ) , the next they were being pressganged by Polydor and trailed across the press following the release of their debut album , The Eight Legged Groove Machine . |
| 14 | The students were freed only a few months before the end of their sentences , but the move is clearly intended to polish up China 's image abroad . |
| 15 | Though they were made just a little lower than the angels , they were stamped with God 's character , bearing his image and divine likeness . |
| 16 | An and I think of course we were made quite a fuss of too . |
| 17 | What he did not tell me — and I only learnt during the course of the journey — was that we were adding about a thousand miles to our route . |
| 18 | If a price rise were to discourage even a small proportion of buyers , then that basic cost would rise yet further . |
| 19 | I felt as if I were moving just a beat faster than everyone else . |
| 20 | We appeared to have students of the same native wit coming to courses in the arts and the sciences and the technologies , and the technologies were requiring quite a lot of these colleges to kick off with unclassified degrees , and finally began to weaken a little , I think , when they found that business studies and art and design were doing no such thing . |
| 21 | If she were to hum quietly a popular song of the day , or laugh gaily at something which tickled her sense of humour , then he let loose a stream of abuse and insults , shouting hysterically . |
| 22 | Actually , Cole was n't proposing donations to aid agencies as the ‘ solution ’ to mass starvation any more than Stuart Weir and I were doing so a few years ago . |
| 23 | It was worse than last year , with Hanna Brunner , but the high spirits of the company , knowing they were creating quite a stir , knowing they were good , all of them , made it bearable . |
| 24 | However , it must be added that these subjects were consuming quite a large quantity of food and were not attempting to shed weight . |
| 25 | The damp and leaky shacks they inhabit have not changed much since the famous sepia photographs that sometimes decorate contemporary colour magazines were taken nearly a hundred years ago . |
| 26 | In no time we were moored securely a few inches from a slippery ledge , surging in a gentle swell with ropes secured to convenient rock spurs . |
| 27 | Letters were delivered twice a week only . |
| 28 | However , they had called the egm and were putting forward a resolution which would remove four of their opponents from office . |
| 29 | These were solid leather and weighed so much that , not surprisingly , we were allowed only a further 9lb each to include all essentials for the next six days and five nights . |
| 30 | A forum , quays , harbours , villas , baths and theatres were constructed also a system of water conservation and control . |