Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition since the rats on the low fibre diet were heavier at the end of the study , although food intake measurements at 12 weeks showed no difference between the two groups , it is possible that the differences in morbidity were due a variation in calorie intake since caloric restriction is known to prolong life in rodents . |
| 2 | Hereford were due a break as well and sure enough , they got it against Gillingham at Edgar Street . |
| 3 | Three weeks later on 25 March 1985 , the price of the old shares was 198p and the rights to buy the new shares were trading at 5p ( the apparent shortfall of 3p being caused by the fact that the old shares were due a dividend while the new ones were not ) . |
| 4 | And they were popular a lot of people bought them |
| 5 | We need new blood , new talent ( Kelly looked fine to me ) and not rely on players who were suspect a couple of years ago . |
| 6 | The ‘ shimmering trees ’ lining the track were long a feature of the Autumn Illuminations . |
| 7 | Well you were hungry a way down there but you would make good child . |
| 8 | In the single one year period ( 1989 ) when computer records were available a total of 1662 children provided stools for microbiological examination and 27 ( 1.6% ) had cryptosporidiosis . |
| 9 | but I mean they were sort of saying anything over twenty four and were toiling a bit . |
| 10 | Prospects were bleak a year ago at Thornaby Impasse after it failed to secure funding . |
| 11 | Tandy Corp , Fort Worth , Texas , has resumed its monthly pulse-taking of its business , and reports that sales in April from stores that were open a year ago rose 2% to $256.4m compared with April last year ; total sales rose 12% to $256.4m ; stores that have been closed as part of the company 's comprehensive restructuring are not included in the figures , Tandy , now a pure electronic retailer , said . |
| 12 | Yeah , they 've bought us them out and they were dirty a minute ago so I 'm putting them back . |
| 13 | You were icy a while back . |
| 14 | He used to come and collect that , and er But er the union well we were alright A chap named he was the secretary and er and Jack he was the president and me Dad were on the committee , there were several of on the committee . |
| 15 | The two men were silent a moment , sharing the sweet sadness of the memory . |
| 16 | Falconer , out of action for six months after a knee operation , said : ‘ I think I was due a goal . |
| 17 | Although she was due a week later in Glasgow , I did not go there . |
| 18 | The lad 's prize was a silver shilling , the maids got a shilling and a kiss , and Mrs. Jarrett — well , for one terrified minute she thought she was due a kiss , too , but instead she had a stately one-round waltz on the meadow with the master , while everyone else laughed 206 or cheered or sang their own idea of a waltz tune . |
| 19 | The tabby a couple of houses away on the other side is a cheeky sod and was due a lesson next time I found him walking around like he owned the place . |
| 20 | Soon after this was complete a spur line from Stratford to wharves at Bow Creek , extended to North Woolwich , was added . |
| 21 | He sat down on a log and tried to perform what he thought of as the vanishing act , whereby you became insofar as it was possible a part of the surroundings : breathing , seeing , hearing only — merely an aspect of the place , a dimension , like the robin or the moss-covered log or the leafmould on which his feet rested . |
| 22 | The great spotted woodpecker began brief but intense bursts of drumming in the second week of January which is a week or so earlier than in most recent years and many weeks earlier than was normal a decade ago . |
| 23 | He was free a year later , however , when he was licensed under the Declaration of Indulgence , as a Baptist , to preach at his house in Chertsey . |
| 24 | It was relieved a bit when Clark squared the match with a birdie on the 16th and transformed altogether when the Americans both pushed their approaches to the long 17th hole to lose that as well . |
| 25 | And last night Robert Sheldon , chairman of the powerful Commons public accounts committee — which oversees all Government spending — was convinced a pay cut would happen . |
| 26 | He was thoughtful a moment . |
| 27 | As was customary a number of items such as galvanised baths , water cans and garden implements were hung on hooks outside , below the fascia . |
| 28 | ‘ She was fine a minute ago . |
| 29 | Hogg added it was likely a draw would be made to determine the order of matches in the Scottish inter-district championship , while the following programme has been devised for the Scottish districts v Irish provinces contest : |
| 30 | It was obvious a storm was coming in . |