Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | In the other room , a Swiss boy and a German girl were making an impressive model chalet from a kit they 'd found in the hobbies cupboard . |
| 14 | During the 1650s , England experienced what was probably the freest religious environment of the entire early modern period , within which Protestants who believed in the doctrine of the trinity and refrained from breaking the law were allowed a wide measure of toleration . |
| 15 | The aims of this plan were to produce a new generation of francophile elites and to convince Algerians that only France was willing and able to modernize their country . |
| 16 | Firms interested in cleaning up their act were offered a special deal : Railside Revival would pay half the cost of materials and community programme workers would do the work for free . |
| 17 | The electric light was burning and mixers and other equipment were making a steady hum . |
| 18 | This was a busy and fruitful time , and the team were given a warm welcome in all the places we worked . |
| 19 | As in many other areas of rural life , events during and immediately after the First World War were to have a considerable effect upon the structure of rural housing . |
| 20 | Witney 's winner came courtesy of a set piece ; Town were awarded a free kick which Dave Watson swung to the edge of the six yard box . |
| 21 | Formerly , notes written in the bass clef were written a fourth lower than the required pitch instead of a fifth higher . |
| 22 | Touring the huge THORP plant and Sellafield 's visitors ' centre took up one day and then the group were given a guided tour of nearby Muncaster Castle by Sir Patrick Gordon-Duff Pennington , whose family have lived in the historic castle for more than 300 years . |
| 23 | Five rats from each group were given an intraperitoneal injection of 50 mg/ kg bromodeoxyridine ( BrdUrd ) one hour before death . |
| 24 | However , in 1982 only 40 per cent of lone ( i.e. non-married ) women aged 60–4 had their own and/or a widow 's occupational pension and 25 per cent of that age group were drawing a supplementary ( means-tested ) state pension . |
| 25 | About 1850 trees of the Orange Pippin were given a wider distribution by Charles Turner , of the Royal Nurseries , Slough , and the fruit soon began to attract attention . |
| 26 | That sixties period and all the stories from the era were to play a massive role in Morrissey 's subsequent lyricism and his handling of The Smiths record sleeves : the stories , the Moors murders , Viv ( Spend , Spend , Spend ) Nicholson , Elsie Tanner ( the perfect Northern character so desperately attempting to escape to a better lifestyle ) , the stream of sixties Northern imagery films ( from The Family Way through Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to The Lovers ) and the countless left-overs from the Merseybeat era now parading their former moments of glory around working men 's clubs . |
| 27 | Yet if the GDR were to become a multi-party democracy , it would lose its identifying ideology and become a pallid shadow of the Federal Republic : less grossly consumerist , perhaps , but also less desirable . |
| 28 | Yet its timing , duration , scale and outcome were to have a profound effect upon the form that the revolution took . |
| 29 | The crew of this flag of convenience vessel were owed a substantial amount in wages , but the official was disowned because of the threat posed by this act of international solidarity to future orders . |
| 30 | Last week James and his wife were given a valedictory dinner by the Argentine ambassador , Mario Campora , and his wife at their handsome embassy across the square from Canning House . |