Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What identified sufferers was a collapse of motivation . |
| 2 | I have always thought boils were a symptom of the first signs of scurvy , caused by a lack of ascorbic acid , vitamin C. Surely diet , rather than lesions and subsequent infection , is a much more important factor ? |
| 3 | I thought well after ten years , I thought , well I want I still want to get on and erm so I heard of this job down at Cambridge Station as Assistant Manageress at the Refreshment Rooms , you see , and er it was n't quite the same because er at Ipswich , you see , although the Catering Manager 's office er my work was office work and typing you know general thing and er because he was away most of the day , most days , because of er er the ten stations er from stretching as I say from Chelmsford , Witham , Marks Tey , Colchester and er I think it was Clacton and er and Manningtree and er I think , I do n't know Manningtree and Ipswich of course and er then er Bury St Edmunds and , and that 's it and I am not sure whether you went to Newmarket or whether to Ca whether to Cambridge now Newmarket but er , you see , so the days went on and we worked every other Sunday and of course I know things were a lot cheaper then but you see the pay was n't , was n't very good . |
| 4 | Sir Patrick said detailed analysis has shown that 18 settlements were made in cases where alleged assault inside RUC holding centres was a factor . |
| 5 | They wanted to hug , cuddle , kiss , make daisy chains and watch the ducklings running on the surface of the lake , but one was told to grow up and pay back the beastly Jews who were wicked people and had put daddy Schicklgruber out of work , another that anyone who did n't enjoy riding bare back across Asia splitting skulls was a sissy , the third that all Mensheviks carried a knife up their sleeve and needed purging . |
| 6 | Smuggling drugs was a quick in-and-out operation . |
| 7 | He wore the battered corduroy trousers and old tweed jacket of the skint London actor , not for effect but because buying clothes was a waste of money . |
| 8 | One was that the most direct beneficiaries of this way of doing things were a handful of banks — J.P . |
| 9 | I always thought toads were a greenhouse asset . |
| 10 | Even when they wanted to be helpful , badly trained Soviet doctors and under-equipped scientists were a hindrance . |
| 11 | A HEALTH authority was last night trying to trace 147 former patients after it was discovered that a surgeon at a hospital where they had operations was a hepatitis B carrier . |
| 12 | But Jim really hurt her because erm when she was going out with him he was a virgin and then erm they came back , you notice things were a bit sort of sort of on the rocks when they came back at first ? |