Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] a [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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1 | Nobody was hurt and luckily a picture was taken of the offender who is being actively sought . |
2 | The lamps in the cressets gave out the scent of perfumed oil , and somewhere a lutenist was playing quietly . |
3 | But that day his mother had suddenly flown a warning flight , while his father rose into the air and swooped into the valley and back beneath the cliff edge , and suddenly a man was there with something green in his hand which rose into the sky above him and came down towards him . |
4 | Law had indeed already done enough as leader to make his departure unthinkable and so a memorial was drawn up by Carson and signed by almost all the party 's backbenchers , stating full confidence in Law and begging him to stay on with a revised tariff policy . |
5 | Further examination revealed a hard swelling at the base of the penis and the question of a foreign body was raised with Mr P. He strongly denied inserting anything into his urethra and so an X-ray was taken . |
6 | Indeed , in the first series of patients only 72% were bleeding from varices , haemostatic treatment was not uniform and only a minority were treated with sclerotherapy . |
7 | Many easterners are still not convinced by the virtues of unfettered markets , and only a handful were in any active sense dissenters under the previous regime . |
8 | Another deadly volley of canister and scarcely a man was left on his feet and capable of charging even had he wanted to do so . |
9 | Effective communication nationally was the one factor missing , German chemists were not concentrated in a particular city , unlike their French counterparts in Paris , and thus a forum was needed . |
10 | The main purpose was to pack as much corn as possible into the bay ; but in treading the corn in this way much of it was shaken out of the ear , and thus a start was made on the threshing . |
11 | Burton was physically falling apart , and finally a doctor was called for . |
12 | They were five people in one small room , and hardly a word was said between them until Gus Hambro had a large brandy under his belt , and was visibly returning into circulation . |
13 | At the time of my visit about half the men had been convicted of heterosexual offences , mostly rape ; about a quarter for offences against children and about a quarter were the ‘ grasses ’ or informers . |
14 | There is plenty of evidence for the planting of new vineyards in the Bordelais and even a Poitevin was prepared to admit that Bordeaux wine was of superb quality , but at this date by far the most important wine-exporting region was further north , in Aunis and Saintonge . |
15 | ‘ I do n't know what you mean , ’ he said , and then a girl was by their table with her notebook . |
16 | We got the words up there and timed it right and everything and then a rehearsal was done . |
17 | Numerous houses became schools , many more became hospitals and quite a number were acquired as reform schools . |
18 | No service was held at the Nikolai Kirche in Leipzig , where the city 's massive weekly demonstrations had started in the autumn of 1989 , and instead a notice was pinned up outside the church saying : " With 2,000,000 unemployed we see little cause for celebrating " . |
19 | I reported the find to the landowner and then the Coroner , and subsequently an inquest was held on 13 December 1991 . |
20 | Bhattarai met with the King on May 15 and afterwards a statement was issued from the Royal Palace explaining that the drafting committee had been abolished . |
21 | The building is being restored and recently a garderobe was found . |
22 | ‘ It was a bloody business but eventually a breach was forced in the defences and Bartholomew led us through . ’ |
23 | The farmsteads and hamlets thus created may have been used initially as temporary steadings , but eventually a number were permanently occupied . |
24 | Trying to present that impossible chimera , ‘ a balanced view ’ , the series in fact reflected the existing power relations in the industry by showing predominantly White , Western , heterosexual films , but clearly an effort was made to complete the picture with some lesbian films and with work ( especially documentaries and shorts ) from outside the familiar Eurocentric tradition . |
25 | Perhaps a more apt title would be the Demolition Years , as not only whole industries , jobs and homes were destroyed , but also an attempt was made to change our whole way of life . |
26 | The proposed cuts had led to talk of its closure but today a reprieve was announced . |