Example sentences of "[was/were] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Dr Charles Deering , who settled there after a wandering career , said that ‘ were a naturalist in Quest of an exquisite Spot to build a Town or a City , could he meet with one that would better answer his Wishes ? ’ |
| 2 | They were a couple in their mid-fifties , I 'd say , but dressed like they thought they were twenty years younger . |
| 3 | ‘ They said you were a Big-Endian in your heart , and reminded the King how much you cost Lilliput in food and drink . |
| 4 | The worries of Ladybird Johnson about her husband 's health ( he had suffered heart attacks before becoming president ) were a factor in his withdrawal ; but it was the unsolved problem of Vietnam that was decisive in making up the President 's mind . |
| 5 | But Mr Charlton declined to say whether the Skipton would receive higher commissions on the sale of investment products , or whether commissions were a factor in the severing of the L&G link . |
| 6 | John described it to many interviewers as if the free lessons were a concession in return for taking part in performances , but it would be more realistic to regard the performances by the University of Cape Town Ballet as a valuable part of his ballet education . |
| 7 | The fifth and sixth defendants had been employed by a group of companies of which the plaintiffs were a part in senior positions for short periods before being dismissed . |
| 8 | That 's if Parkin were a man in real life . |
| 9 | In 1600 ocean voyages were a rarity in England , but by 1700 ordinary English ships were able to find their way around the Atlantic and Indian oceans with little difficulty , and the money that Charles spent on Greenwich was among the most useful items of government expenditure of his age . |
| 10 | Apparently Myrcans and Hearthwares were a rarity in these parts . |
| 11 | Never expecting to meet him again , she had indulged all the week in fond dreams of him , as if he were a character in a journal story , but the reality was infinitely more exhilarating . |
| 12 | They were a nuisance in her life and that was the truth of it . |
| 13 | Although the majority of scientists tend to be a little coy about metaphysical matters in their professional publications , they are often less so outside when writing elsewhere , being prone to describe the framework of presuppositions about perception within which they conduct their investigations as if it were a discovery in its own right and that ‘ discovery ’ an explanation of perception . |
| 14 | The recent European Soccer Championships were a case in point — we ( in this case , England ) looked , and were , second-rate . |
| 15 | The conservative political parties of the interwar years , with their amorphous ideologies , were a case in point . |
| 16 | Scott J concluded that if this were a case in which there was any question or threat of general disclosure by the defendant of confidential information concerning the way in which the plaintiff carried on its business or concerning any details of the affairs of any of its clients there would be no answer to the claim for an injunction ; but it was not general disclosure that the defendant had in mind . |
| 17 | In this case , the plaintiffs were a finance house and the defendants were a company in liquidation and liquidators of that company . |
| 18 | William Bartlemas and Kevin O'Rourke were a legend in the world of British theatre . |
| 19 | Each seemingly fond gesture had wound her up until now she felt as though she were a prisoner in a cell , wondering what her torturer had in mind for her next . |
| 20 | We can simplify this conditional as follows : if you were a brain in a vat , you would not believe that you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 21 | This is false because if you were a brain in a vat ( being fed your current experiences ) , you would still believe that you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 22 | A welcome spin-off AMONG Hartlepool 's pleasures were a pint in the Jacksons Arms and a re-acquaintance with the admirable Elsie Reed , Leadbitter 's agent since 1964 . |
| 23 | Noting in passing how conclusively the ‘ frigifaire paten ’ rules out any notion of a translation of propertius ( unless it were a translation in the sense of a raucous travesty or ‘ put-down ’ — and indeed some academic latinists did misconceive Pound 's poem in that way ) , some early readers were understandably disconcerted by the inversions of conversational or prosaic word-order — ‘ Happy who ’ , ‘ Stands genius ’ — especially from a poet who some years before had seemed to polemicize for just that rule about word-order which he here flouted . |
| 24 | By the middle of 1924 the Agitprop section of the Smolgubkom was openly declaring that both shefstvo and smychka were a farce in actuality because they had deteriorated into mass weekend outings to the countryside in search of illicit stills . |
| 25 | Real growth of 3 per cent and an unemployment rate of 4.7 per cent were predicted , as were a reduction in the net budget deficit to 3.5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) , with a long-term aim of a reduction to 2.5 per cent by 1992 as laid down in the SPÖ-ÖVP joint programme of 1987 [ see p. 35088 ] . |
| 26 | Other changes agreed were a reduction in the powers of the appointed ( and military-dominated ) Senate ; the appointment of the House of Representatives Speaker rather than the Senate Speaker as president of the National Assembly ; and an enhancement of the powers of the representatives . |
| 27 | In 1939 , as in the 1920s , any imports that could conceivably be replaced by nationally produced goods had to be reduced to a minimum or stopped altogether , even if the result were a reduction in quality . |
| 28 | In August US President Bush declared that test transmissions of Television Martí , begun in March 1990 [ see p. 37370 ] , were a success in spite of Cuban jamming , and released US$16,000,000 to fund its permanent operation . |
| 29 | They were a wall in front of her , between her and all the doors . |
| 30 | In fact , I would n't be surprised if there were a clause in your contract forbidding that kind of journey on a performance day . |