Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The executions began at midnight on Saturday and were completed six and a half hours later . |
| 2 | His elders were becoming more than a little worried because people were saying his teaching was heretical . |
| 3 | On Jan. 10 , three Interior Ministry officers were shot dead and a fourth wounded during an unsuccessful attempt by several Cubans to flee the country by stealing a boat from the Tarara naval base in Habana del Este . |
| 4 | A mother and son were shot dead and a 13-year-old schoolgirl , Clare Silberbauer , was shot in the head and has undergone brain surgery . |
| 5 | Soon Downes had reached the last carriage , in front of the diesel locomotive , staring quickly through the windows of the compartment as the few doors still remaining open were banged shut and a whistle blew , and with a slight chug and then with a mighty heave the long , north-bound train began slowly to move forward , gradually picking up a little speed , before moving out and away along the curving stretch of line that led to Banbury . |
| 6 | ‘ The flats were flooded two and a half years ago and we were promised that it would never happen again . ’ |
| 7 | The Rev Eric Davidson ( 74 ) , and Judith Anderson ( 35 ) , were found dead after a blaze at the minister 's home at Drum Road , Cookstown , on December 15 last year . |
| 8 | In separate incidents across the city two more young men were found dead and a man was arrested in connection with alleged possession of heroin . |
| 9 | Sales were split 50–50 and a set fee was advanced per month on the legal basis of a three-year agreement . |
| 10 | Erm the problem is that people who were in this account two years ago were earning thirteen and a half percent , well say eighteen months ago . |
| 11 | If regional officers were to take more than a passing interest in this pattern of change the writing would have appeared to be on the wall , but as the comments of the regional medical and nursing officers cited above revealed , it was some time before their interest was kindled . |
| 12 | She had worked hard to achieve qualification in the contracts and purchasing side of engineering , but , in her present job , she was using less than a quarter of her skills . |
| 13 | He was given two and a half years custody . |
| 14 | The last leg of the expedition was proving more than a trial for the young naturalist . |
| 15 | Even before he finished speaking a caped and hooded figure appeared at Ivy 's shoulder , the door was wrenched open and a powerful torch shone into their faces . |
| 16 | In the same year it was considered likely that a commercial FBR would be ready in 1965 . |
| 17 | The waits were officially disbanded in 1832 but existed as am independent body until the late nineteenth century , by which time their peculiar custom was becoming more than a little irritating to certain residents of the town . |
| 18 | It was a day or two before I realized that his behaviour was becoming more than a little frenetic , to say the least . |
| 19 | Benny was turned sixty-five and a widower who lived alone in Abbey Street . |
| 20 | The Graingers began a worldwide hunt for a cure when Helen 's diagnosis was made three and a half years ago . |
| 21 | It was made clear that a management buy-out was not on the agenda . |
| 22 | At a meeting of the UN Security Council on Dec. 7 , it was made clear that a prospective resolution calling for a Middle East peace conference would not achieve US endorsement . |
| 23 | During the unrest one Palestinian was shot dead and a further 20 were injured . |
| 24 | ‘ Some sort of scheme would be reasonable , but only if there was training involved and a decent wage . ’ |
| 25 | The first formal study of the persuasive effect of language was written two and a half thousand years ago . |
| 26 | Japan 's devastation of a country which had lost to Namibia on the eve of the World Cup was noting less than a scandal and a disgrace to international rugby . |
| 27 | After nearly an hour and a half at sea in gale force winds Falmouth lifeboat , under the command of Second Coxswain Alan Barnes , came up on the yacht , a 40ft steel ketch , which was drifting two and a half miles south west of The Lizard Light . |
| 28 | In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine . |
| 29 | The ecstatic welcome came as a door was flung open and a short , ample-busted woman came running to meet them , her round brown face wreathed in smiles , surprisingly green eyes warm with pleasure . |
| 30 | And that was how I was trained and that way I was trained seven and a half years ago , it has now all changed again . |