Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As her finger jabbed the button , suddenly a firm hand was on her sleeve . |
| 2 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 3 | But before long a firm decision was made to change the " front " team in Bristol . |
| 4 | The official condemnation of the Copernican system did put constraints on what could be taught , though the option of presenting it as merely a mathematical hypothesis was still open , and increasingly taken during the course of the seventeenth century . |
| 5 | Oddly enough a similar tale was told of Guntram by the eighth-century Lombard historian Paul the Deacon . |
| 6 | Perhaps a little fantasy was just what she needed , she decided , mentally preparing to suspend disbelief and abandon herself to whatever awaited her . |
| 7 | At about 1pm a single shot was fired from a rifle , hitting the gunman in the upper neck and face . |
| 8 | So a small-scale inquiry was carried out by the Welsh Consumer Council in connection with our report , to survey the availability of credit to Welsh rural shoppers in the centres they would use . |
| 9 | Debbie has very fine hair and she is growing out a perm so a strong mousse was used and a reverse combing technique to achieve extra fullness for this amazing new look . |
| 10 | So a glazed atrium was cut through the five floors to allow in extra light and to open up visual links between different departments . |
| 11 | So a new tactic was adopted and each put in £10 , raising a further £200 to £300 from friends . |
| 12 | While at the hostel they could get a free pass to visit any cinema or theatre so a decent life was possible on the half pay rehearsal salary . |
| 13 | From 1867 onwards it became clear that the boy must begin to learn his métier as heir to the throne and so a small household was established . |
| 14 | They say some workers were allowed back before a final all-clear had been given and so a second evacuation was necessary . |
| 15 | The company 's managing director understood my initiative and the degree of freedom I required , and encouraged me — so a delicate trust was established between client , painter and agent . |
| 16 | Both of these are frequently mixed or compounded with other minerals such as copper or lead and so a virtual monopoly was held by the old Mines Royal Company , and its permission was needed . |
| 17 | The show also had a majority of male acts so a female comic was perfect . |
| 18 | The coaching stock was six or eight a side compartment type with sliding top lights , it was warm in the carriage by the time the tunnel was reached , so a top light was opened . |
| 19 | Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from her sputum but she failed to respond to antibiotics , so a fibreoptic bronchoscopy was performed . |
| 20 | Hyperlipidaemia and obesity are important contributors to the coronary heart disease epidemic in western countries , so a low-risk group was defined according to plasma ApoB level and BMI . |
| 21 | As a result much of it had to be stored in a continuously digesting system , so a large torso was needed . |
| 22 | The garden had to be shared with the bottom flat , so a dividing wall was built which gave them total privacy . |
| 23 | So a big argument was there ? |
| 24 | When he did so a bitter cry was heard , and black blood flowed from the reed-stumps ; this was the death-cry of the witch who guarded the reeds , and the blood was hers . |
| 25 | ‘ A taxi , you see , would have been easily traceable , so a different plan was adopted . |
| 26 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 27 | Few had any experience of moving about and getting together , and unless educated , which only a small minority was , had no expectation of improving their condition . |
| 28 | But the landed gentry were already heavily in debt , and collection of these huge fines was impracticable ; only a small proportion was actually paid . |
| 29 | By the end of the week , only a small residue was left for next year . |
| 30 | And doubts were expressed as to its value given the conceded fact that only a small dent was likely to be made in the pigeon population . |