Example sentences of "[was/were] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If there were a thousand Departments of Defence in Canada or elsewhere , instead of one , these would still not compete for citizens , because citizens are not their customers ; politicians are ’ ( Breton and Wintrobe 1982 , p. 91 ) . |
| 2 | Anyway , these curtains were a thousand times better than the ones off the skips ; lovely , real linen or silk or thick velvet , lined and interlined , fringed and tasselled . |
| 3 | A bookmark showed the page : ‘ J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans ’ — ‘ I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old . ’ |
| 4 | There were a thousand uses for Herrick 's implants , but most would be used as they had on Haavikko — to make a man vulnerable by making him believe he had done something when he had n't . |
| 5 | There were a thousand men out , Charlie ! |
| 6 | After the signing of the Treaty of Limerick in October 1691 the risk of an invasion via Ireland was slight , but unrest continued in Scotland , with whose problems William III had no sympathy ; he is said to have remarked that he wished it were a thousand miles away . |
| 7 | She knew it did n't make any sense , not after she had spent most of the day wishing she were a thousand miles away from Julius , but she suddenly felt rather desperately in need of human company — even Julius 's . |
| 8 | You were a real rabbit-in-the-headlights job . ’ |
| 9 | In those early days we were a real sub-Faces band , all Gibson guitars and plonking bass lines . |
| 10 | Yes we looked in the er wardrobe , there were a built-in wardrobes there . |
| 11 | Do n't you remember look if there were a hundred minutes in an hour that would be two point one two , but there 's not a hundred minutes in an hour are there ? |
| 12 | Full fees were a hundred pounds a year and erm the Education Department ha had assessed my father 's contribution towards the fees at six shillings a week which was about fifteen pounds a year . |
| 13 | or whatever and they were a hundred pounds a week or |
| 14 | Silver and the rest were a hundred metres behind , and I heard him shouting , ‘ Jim , Jim ! ’ |
| 15 | There were a hundred things that he knew he ought to say . |
| 16 | There were a hundred questions still to be asked and answered , but at this speed and in this noise speech was impossible . |
| 17 | And there were a hundred reasons why he might have had to ask Lexy to make the phone call . |
| 18 | Equally dull rhetoric appears in : ( " Never during his life time though he were a hundred miles the other side of Rome in any circumstances would I take a mortal man to be my mate … " ) |
| 19 | Yeah , he 's there from Barnsley up Birmingham it says that were a hundred miles away where we got 'em to drop the money off |
| 20 | Seven miles off behind him , Eochaid and Ferteth and Cormac were fighting to save Perth and Scone from the army besieging them ; and here , motionless under the sun , were a hundred men who could help them . |
| 21 | Very soon he stopped , juggled the engines to and fro until he reckoned the bows were a hundred yards distant from the buoy , had the anchor dropped , then moved just as slowly astern , the anchor chain being paid out as he went . |
| 22 | They were a hundred yards short of the junction . |
| 23 | We are still asking more or less the same questions we were a hundred years ago . |
| 24 | As I , as I said earlier the new boy , the rather elderly new boy but I can assure the Professor if I were a hundred years old I 'd still be younger than 'im . |
| 25 | there was no rot in the windows , the old windows were a hundred years old |
| 26 | There were a million questions she wanted answering herself . |
| 27 | There were a million things . |
| 28 | So here we were a million miles away from his world of steak and more steak and steak Tartare and steak Bernaise and Moet and Lanson and Dom Perignon . |
| 29 | Among these were a new perishables re-ordering system and enhancements to the non-perishables re-ordering system . |
| 30 | Nurse-maids with their children were a common sight but as yet there were a few hotels and most visitors took ‘ rooms ’ with the local inhabitants who cooked the food which their guests bought at local shops . |