Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The home side were lacking a key bowler too , in seamer Willie Watson , whose absence with a thigh strain was to prove a chronic handicap to Crowe . |
| 2 | There were loads of light vans in the Mirror livery parked on both sides of the street and the pubs down one side were doing a roaring end-of-shift trade — or maybe pre-shift . |
| 3 | The article went on to say that staff employed in the tourist industry were getting a raw deal , and that the government should take a hard line and introduce new legislation on taxation for the hotel industry . |
| 4 | The Professional Footballers ' Association were offered an improved percentage of television revenue after a 3½-hour meeting in London . |
| 5 | The residual swells coming over the reef were causing a moderate surf on the beach : I needed to reconnoitre , weighing up the possibility of swamping before taking the children in . |
| 6 | He said that the main objectives of the programme were to achieve an annual growth rate of 3-5 per cent ; to reduce the annual rate of inflation to 3.6 per cent per annum by 1995 and to reduce the country 's external debt . |
| 7 | His face and neck were burnt a dark-scarlet colour and patches had peeled , exposing bright pink lesions underneath , but he seemed not to notice . |
| 8 | The collapse continued until many thousands of tons of rock were blocking a long section of the underground roadway . |
| 9 | It would undoubtedly be of great benefit to future scholars working in this field if the College were to create a central repository of classified material on a sector of education of which it is , after all , a not insignificant part . |
| 10 | RESEARCH programmes at a North Wales college were given a big cash boost last night . |
| 11 | Now scientific education and research were to become a major feature of America 's drive to supplant Europe as the centre of western culture . |
| 12 | The Belfast club were facing an estimated loss of £15,000 on their preliminary round ties with conquerors Dinamo Tbilisi — before the Georgian side were found guilty of trying to bribe match officials . |
| 13 | THE Consumers ’ Association was holding an urgent meeting yesterday over British Airways ' £35m take-over of debt-ridden Gatwick airline Dan-Air . |
| 14 | His first act after his coronation was to order a punitive attack on Naggaroth . |
| 15 | He also claimed that player-coach Newberry was given an early bath for ‘ questioning a decision ’ . |
| 16 | The fact is , however , that OW was given a supervised work training placement , helping care workers in a centre for the mentally handicapped for two days a week . |
| 17 | The second recommendation was to create a general management function throughout the service to focus responsibility and give leadership and direction . |
| 18 | The grounds of the cross-appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had correctly held that a mortgagee 's right to costs , charges and expenses whether founded on equitable principles or an implied contract could always be varied , restricted or enlarged by the express terms of the mortgage and that the first defendant was entitled a full indemnity against the costs , charges and expenses on a true construction of the words used in the mortgage deeds other than the guarantee and mortgage debenture dated 6 June 1986 . |
| 19 | This lack of appreciation was to have an adverse effect upon his stance in some of the debates in the 1920s ; something he came to realise and rectify later on . |
| 20 | It was not until the appearance of Michael Cimino 's The Deerhunter ( 1979 ) that the Vietnam combat movie was to make a significant impact . |
| 21 | When the manacle was unlocked a weeping ulcer was exposed , and he was sickened , not by the sight of it , but because he had failed her in not acting sooner . |
| 22 | THE official launch of WINCH , the Wirral Initiative for Needy Children , at Tranmere Rovers Football Club was given a healthy start , thanks to £1,000 donation from BNFL . |
| 23 | His anxiety for equal terms in the nuclear club was echoed a few months later by , of all people , Aneurin Bevan , who urged his fellow left-wingers at the Labour Party conference not to vote for Britain to give up nuclear arms with the famous plea : ‘ Do not send the British Foreign Minister naked into the international conference chamber ! ’ |
| 24 | But a few weeks ago our youth rugby team could n't raise a side because the golf club was holding a junior scratch championship on the same day . |
| 25 | Navarre 's reply was to establish a massive fortified camp near the Lao border at Dien Bien Phu . |
| 26 | The agent was doing an efficient demolition job on Harry 's ebullience . |
| 27 | I felt guilty for challenging his motives and , even though a tiny corner of my mind was hearing an imaginary Ellen scoff at my naïvety , I believed the senator 's sudden and passionate sincerity . |
| 28 | His long neck was tinged a bright pink as though reflecting some internal glow . |
| 29 | Gaston was occupying a high-backed chair in the place of honour , and she went to stand beside him , watching Marie-Christine , the skirts of her dress looped over her arm , being whirled round the floor by Jacques . |
| 30 | I shall tell him that we have every reason to believe that the bomber was carrying a smuggled explosive device aboard , that its detonation was triggered by a radio wave and that we have the miscreant responsible in our hands . |