Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retired coal miners and men from the general population in North Nottinghamshire were sent a dyspepsia questionnaire to fill in , and those with upper gastrointestinal symptoms were invited for gastroscopy and biopsy . |
| 2 | Non-members were charged a total of over £2,000 for use of library services . |
| 3 | THE RUC were given a let-off in the eighth minute when the home side were awarded a penalty , but player manager Jim Scott 's kick was saved by keeper Matthews . |
| 4 | The opposition were winning a lot of line-out ball at the back and were getting to our midfield . |
| 5 | But he argued : ‘ I do n't know why the fans were having a go at me . |
| 6 | Later in the nineteenth century , following the work of Green and of Kelvin , thermodynamic considerations were introduced a well as the concept of a strain energy function . |
| 7 | It is , for example , remarkable that almost half of all medical students are women , when as recently as 1974 medical schools were operating a quota system to keep women out . |
| 8 | The time I was supposed to be going through this a lot of schools were getting a bit of stick because a lot of parents did n't like it . |
| 9 | South-West were dealt a blow yesterday when their England flanker Andy Robinson pulled out after falling victim to the ‘ flu epidemic . |
| 10 | After reading your All I want is a room somewhere , I decided to write in case any of your readers were considering a home to Carla . |
| 11 | Military units were to stage a show depicting victories over counter-revolutionaries for the benefit of invited workers . |
| 12 | These organizations were to initiate a renewal scheme for one of the most deprived areas in Britain . |
| 13 | Well no he went out but they somebody ran in there and h well B Brian and I think Pat and David were having a drink with him and I think they suddenly thought well he 's been in there a long time . |
| 14 | D. A. Cautions were used a lot . |
| 15 | At the same time as Shirley Williams ( Secretary of State for Education in the Callaghan administration which was to be defeated in the General Election of 1979 ) was conducting the ‘ Great Debate ’ , inspectors from her Department were beginning a process of evaluation of the nation 's schools . |
| 16 | The two that immediately came to mind were running a charity and looking at whether any of her work was commercially viable which , since it is biotechnology-based , there was a good chance it would be . |
| 17 | Donald Carr , chairman of the panel , said : ‘ Surrey were given a warning last year for repeated offences and that is why the matter was reported to the disciplinary committee . ’ |
| 18 | Opposite the Italian Village , the Norwegians were building a hospital but had to leave because of lack of supplies . |
| 19 | The difference between the early days and 1976 was that cars were going a lot faster — Lauda himself had been the first to break the magical seven-minute lap in 1975 — and that very little had been done to make the track safer . |
| 20 | Er there were lots of er little panes broken before but er whether our lads were having a bit of a pot shot . |
| 21 | Speakers were given a score of one point for each one of these features that occurred in their speech , irrespective of how many times it occurred . |
| 22 | In a fourth condition subjects were given a description in which not only was sentence ( 3 ) removed but also the internal structure of the story was disrupted by altering the temporal sequencing of events and removing the causal connection between them . |
| 23 | After the recognition phase in this study subjects were given a map showing the location in Cambridge of the ten junctions shown in the films . |
| 24 | Subjects were given a memory test after either 20 minutes or 2 weeks . |
| 25 | In the latter situation subjects were given a cue prior to the stimulus presentation ( pre-cued condition ) so that they knew beforehand whether to report the inner or outer column or the letters printed in a particular colour . |
| 26 | When subjects were performing a variety of other judgment tasks they may have no longer expected to see particularly risky situations and consequently would have been better centred on the scale for risk ratings . |
| 27 | She could feel the warmth of his breath , knew the savage lips were threatening a kiss , promising … |
| 28 | Sir Raymond Firth 's study of the conversion to Christianity in this century of the Tikopians , with their gods , their ancestor cults , and their propitiatory sacrifices , has shown how interested these Pacific islanders were to discuss a kind of theology of god-power . |
| 29 | Listeners were fed a mixture of adequate and inadequate messages , usually by an adult , and their reactions noted . |
| 30 | Yet the undecorated vessels were given a variety of titles , despite the majority having also come from cemeteries ; biconical and globular vessels were labelled ‘ urns ’ , squat vessels as ‘ plain bowls ’ , and a variety of shapes that could not be fitted easily into the typological scheme were labelled domestic wares , ‘ crude accessories ’ , ‘ wide-mouthed cook-pots ’ and ‘ cook-pots with lugs ’ ( ibid. , pp. 26–9 , pp. 148–70 ) . |