Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horn visited Italyin June 1990 , when Hungary was given a further government credit of $150,000,000 . |
| 2 | The French had little room for manoeuvre , and in May 1358 a treaty known as the ‘ First Treaty of London ’ was drawn up , under which Edward was to have a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty , together with Calais , Ponthieu and Guînes . |
| 3 | Presumably , thought Thiercelin , the defenders of Telnitz were having a harder time , but there was no way of communicating with them . |
| 4 | Or should it have : bad luck on him that labelmate Marvin Gaye was reaching a bigger audience with albums that sound overblown next to Robinson 's persuasive bedside manner . |
| 5 | Lamont was given a lower profile for the second week — prompting a Neil Kinnock joke that he was only allowed out at night . |
| 6 | However the UK was given a larger share of the regional and social funds . |
| 7 | Greece was to suffer a further blow half a century later with the rise of Lucius Cornelius Sulla , Dictator at Rome in 82–1 BC . |
| 8 | David was , by this time , playing a major role in developing the fast-growing U S retailing operation ; Nick was taking a larger hand in design strategy and had built a team of extremely young , artistic friends around him . |
| 9 | Whiting said the wreckage stopped from that speed in 20 metres and Donnelly was thrown a further 20 metres down the track . |
| 10 | Wilkins was fined a further £75 for the assault charge and ordered to pay the officer £20 compensation . |
| 11 | Yesterday , both Mr Fenton and Dr Reid were preparing a further assault on the media . |
| 12 | The population of England and Wales was undergoing a further massive increase — nothing short of a fifty per cent rise in the years from 1801 to 1831 — and the effects of the recent Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions hardly needed a post-war depression to make matters even worse for the poor . |