Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Stadtpark just behind the swimming pool , the cars parked under the chestnut trees were half an inch deep in confetti-like blossom . |
| 2 | If we 're no further on than we were half an hour ago . |
| 3 | We stood there with nothing in our bags we went for my fruit and veg and er , sto there , met this couple who we know we had a right good talk to them about , it were half an hour were n't we ? |
| 4 | Were such an invasion ever to happen , it would inevitably lead to a world war involving the US anyway . |
| 5 | Second , it must be shown that there was no expression of view made by the person as to what should be done in the event that he became incompetent , or , if there were such an expression of view , that it was made when the patient was already incompetent . |
| 6 | I 've always been good at painting ; I 'd nearly finished my picture — which included the ark and a mountain when Miss began telling us how rainbows were all an illusion caused by sunlight and raindrops . |
| 7 | They were all an experiment . |
| 8 | The call from the former Yugoslavia that said they were safe an well . |
| 9 | They are suing the firm for allegedly flying them into a war zone at a time when both British and American governments were aware an invasion was taking place . |
| 10 | ah ha , was that an I P R thing ? |
| 11 | ‘ Was that an attempt to shame me , Culley ? |
| 12 | But was that an accident ? |
| 13 | Was that an accident ? |
| 14 | Was that an obstruction as well Danny ? |
| 15 | ‘ It would n't matter if you were at home and lunch was half an hour late . |
| 16 | I walked round the camp for what I thought was half an hour , imagining myself hiding in woods , boarding goods trains , stealing food , doing anything except clamber over the wire . |
| 17 | You could get to quite like these characters if all you got was half an hour a week . |
| 18 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 19 | It was half an hour past noon , when the corner hotel was quiet ; an hour when Marie-Angèle could let her slip into the bathroom with her pass key without telling Madame , who would otherwise charge her four hundred francs ( anciens ) for the tubful of hot water . |
| 20 | Maybe there was half an hour of daylight left . |
| 21 | ‘ Back soon , he promised , but that was half an hour ago . ’ |
| 22 | You got complications some time in that erm when the Six A Twos , the Fours and the Six B routes were running erm it was found sometimes that if you married them together , did a Six A trip one time a Six B , a Two and Four , you could save what we call a bus , you could save a whole bus by marrying them together because routes were only of thirty minute duration from Electric House out to Six A R Gainsborough and back again was , was half an hour . |
| 23 | The trouble was that Melanie believed I was in bed with one of them every time I was half an hour late . ’ |
| 24 | At a non-denominational school in the west end of Glasgow a head teacher explained that the maximum time to be spent on homework was half an hour . |
| 25 | Laden with parcels , she was half an hour late for her luncheon appointment , and Lowell seated at a table near the window , was already waiting for her . |
| 26 | Er , because he was half an hour later than normal . |
| 27 | It was half an inch out at the very least . |
| 28 | Between the gates and the big double doors was half an acre of lawn ; the driveway was lined by poplars . |
| 29 | Was this an apology ? |
| 30 | He looked , at closer quarters , less of an ogre , more like a Victorian explorer , but was this an improvement ? |