Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure enough before very long a show record was broken . |
| 2 | The pillowcase on what was obviously a chair cushion was also presumably his . |
| 3 | These variables were strongly skewed and seemed log normally distributed , so a log transform was used before calculating their means and deviations . |
| 4 | I have never been one for spending a fortune on equipment , so a dream tank was not something that had ever really passed through my mind . |
| 5 | So a bore hole was sunk 368ft ; more than twice the height of Nelson 's Column . |
| 6 | There was no intermediate turning loop , so a reversing triangle was later installed into the mouth of Versailles Road , the turning opposite Thicket Road . |
| 7 | The contiguity in the viral DNA of all sequences obtained from subclones sharing only a restriction site was assessed by sequencing around the corresponding restriction site in an overlapping clone . |
| 8 | But the magistrates said French had flouted the court order and his record — of sixty five convictions for animal cruelty — was so serious only a prison sentence was appropriate . |
| 9 | Far away a hockey match was in progress . |
| 10 | And thus a boundary dispute was born . |
| 11 | The foresters ' view that customary law vindicated their rights to use the forest conflicted with an emerging capitalist version of law under which these customary rights were extin-guished ; thus a class battle was fought in the forum of legal debate . |
| 12 | Somehow a Dress Rehearsal was achieved on the Monday afternoon . |
| 13 | In England , James Robertson ( 1953 , 1958 ) , a colleague of Bowlby 's at the Tavistock Clinic , started a campaign to persuade children 's hospital wards to admit mothers together with their children , or at least not to restrict visiting in any way ; some hospitals welcomed the idea , others resisted it , but meanwhile a Government committee was set up which in 1959 published the ‘ Platt Report ’ on the welfare of children in hospital , recommending ‘ that all hospitals where children are treated will adopt the practice of unrestricted visiting , particularly for children below school age ’ , that ‘ it is particularly valuable for the mother to be able to stay in hospital with her child during the first day or two ’ , and that ‘ children should not be admitted to hospital if it can possibly be avoided ’ . |
| 14 | Meanwhile a Dounreay Notice was issued this week inviting early release volunteers for April 1994 , when PFR operations cease . |
| 15 | If ever a stage production was set to enjoy a long run , it must be the work being put on by the Glasgow-based ensemble company , The Golden Age Theatre . |
| 16 | Yesterday a card vote was called on a composite motion from Birmingham Selly Oak Constituency Labour Party demanding the same , but the result will not be announced until today . |
| 17 | It allowed workers the opportunity to buy as much as 20 per cent of their company 's shares at half price as well as offering them low-interest loans for buying future shares once a stock market was established . |
| 18 | Eventually a telephone line was established and Mr Macdonald broke his silence and asked for a friend . |
| 19 | A recent case on settlorship is Butler v Wilden 61 TC 666 where shares in effectively a shell company were placed into the names of two children who paid the appropriate price for the same but with the company being built up by two brothers Graham and Gary . |
| 20 | Somewhere a camp fire was lit and we were drawn towards it instinctively . |
| 21 | Most noticeable change was in the newly-designed tail unit , also a chin radiator was re-introduced larger than that of the earlier Mk 1 , wing planform was altered with a reversion to full span , and a revised rear canopy which covered a cockpit designed to seat two radar operators . |
| 22 | It was initially horse-drawn , and later a Simplex Tractor was used . |
| 23 | They heard one of the Arabs get out and moments later a metal gate was opened and the van drove forward a few feet before stopping again , presumably to pick up the Arab . |
| 24 | Mr Globe said that a week later a woman customer was seized in a National Westminster Bank in West Derby Road , by White who was armed with a gun . |
| 25 | Four weeks later a security officer was attacked as he was leaving a betting shop in Scotland Road with £2,000 . |
| 26 | Clearly a brain scan was needed . |
| 27 | By now a waiting list was opened for ladies , whereas men were still keenly sought , and until the membership was built up , prudent budgeting was needed . |
| 28 | Cos their shovel was different to ours , but that were n't any good to us cos that was er , cos what they used to trim grain with , now a grain shovel was made of tin and cos our shovels what they used to feed the boiler with were all steel shovels . |
| 29 | Even now a Master Artificer was engraving a wall-tablet to be mounted in the Teuton Chapel . |
| 30 | Where what is now a carriage museum was once a woollen mill where the red shirts for Garibaldi 's army were made . |