Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would never wear rubber unless she became incontinent or was taking a course in scuba diving for women . |
| 2 | The boy was stocky , his greased black hair knotted with a score and more of decorated beads as though his skull was an abacus , or was sprouting a family of shrunken baby heads . |
| 3 | And they were the firm that were make a tunnel up the hill . |
| 4 | But going back to some of these places you mentioned , were there any rocks that were given a name or stones ? |
| 5 | Perhaps he is referring to some figures that were leaked a couple of weeks ago from the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland — a reference to 44 inward investment jobs . |
| 6 | But it was about to become a symbol of all that was going wrong in Germany , a symbol of the divided factions that were driving a wedge into the heart of the nation . |
| 7 | Although it will probably never be a picture postcard village , during the last two or three years some farmers have started to replace the hedges that were removed a generation ago , and to plant trees , so perhaps in years to come the parish will again look something like the pictures of it in days gone by , less bleak and windswept than it does today . |
| 8 | There are around 4,000 languages in the world today — 6,000 less than were spoken a couple of centuries ago . |
| 9 | There are around 4,000 languages in the world today — 6,000 less than were spoken a couple of centuries ago . |
| 10 | Oh , er , I do n't know so much about knowing when and how so much , cos it I mean who 'd thought prices of houses would then go up as they did , you know , and there 's er , I knew er a young women that was buying a house and these people said oh , oh it 's , we 're not just ready to move yet , we 're not , and during this time Daisy said were rocketing up in price and she could n't afford one after |
| 11 | And the thing that was said a lot was a Slippery Elm stick , well I still do n't really know what it was but er it was a kind of a s , bark of the Slippery Elms , a Slippery Elm bark or something and they sharpened it to a point and inserted that into the womb you see and it was done , and then of course I heard a lot about gin , sitting in a hot bath with gin . |
| 12 | A second NAWK program was written that was run a number of times with different threshold values . |
| 13 | But the others that was getting a job from the town , |
| 14 | The emergence of ecology as a science had no clear-cut links to the environmental movement that was advocating a reduction in the destructive activities required by modern civilization . |
| 15 | Well I do n't know it 's just what we liked at the time you know , we liked anything that was considered a bit way out then , you know |
| 16 | It was the latter that was to provide a respite as the Prussians paused in their advance to loot . |
| 17 | It was always an elitist kind of limited democracy that was applauded a democracy of powerful , autonomous , but cautious , leaders , in limp relation to passive and uncommitted followers who had nothing to give but their votes and unquestioning support . |
| 18 | The Tory campaign in this ward had begun by placing emphasis on everything that was deemed a threat to the mortgaged bliss of privatised nuclear family-life — gypsies , black muggers , Bernie Grant , the Lesbian and Gay Unit . |
| 19 | She was the one that was giving a bollocking to . |
| 20 | What did the policeman say to the woman that was having a rest ? |
| 21 | Somebody 's car alarm 's gone off no , right , now this where lots and lots of people used to really moan , the , the person that was having a fit would absolutely go through hell because somebody at some stage had said oh you must put something in a person 's mouth that has epilepsy . |
| 22 | I mean , the only way you could do that would be if you had a till at one end and people bought whatever they wanted and were given a voucher and you walked down the other end and exchanged |
| 23 | They joined the German retreat in early 1943 , and were given a place of settlement in the Novogrodek area of Belorussia . |
| 24 | The means was to restrict the legal provision of credit to those who applied for it and were granted a licence . |
| 25 | They had contacted selected publishers to seek support for the platform and were forecasting a launch in the autumn with a consumer market focus at a player price of about £250 . |
| 26 | A four-month amnesty came into force on Oct. 13 allowing illegal non-EC immigrants to regularize their position , provided that they had been in the country for six months and were earning a living . |
| 27 | 3 men in balaclavas entered the garage shop by smashing a glass door panel , and were loading a dustbin with cigarettes when they were disturbed by a man in his thirties . |
| 28 | It 's very hard to explain , but these people are all on the extreme left and were seeking a poet to give them some sort of standing . |
| 29 | Three young men in cutoffs had colonized a triangular space and were flipping a Frisbee . |
| 30 | On the Saturday evening they were having a social and were to watch a striptease . |