Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without the information contained in the parish register , one might reasonably suppose that Joseph and Ann had three children , who were each to receive only a shilling unless Ann remarried , upon which occasion they would inherit the entire estate . |
| 2 | ( The Prinsep case was unusual in that the family were prepared to take out a private prosecution in the hope of retrieving their property . ) |
| 3 | Besides Irish Mail and her stable mate Montalban we were delighted to welcome back a regular visitor in Peter Pan , the immaculate Wren Class Kerr Stuart of Graham Morris , while the show stopper must surely have been Chaloner , the vertical-boilered locomotive by De Winton from Leighton Buzzard Railway . |
| 4 | We children gave no presents to one another or to our parents : we were content to send out a few picture cards paid for by our parents , to people who would send us cards . |
| 5 | But most were happy to travel just a few hundred yards . |
| 6 | Other duties , of course , could also be pretty tedious , especially when you were stuck carrying out a rotten job against your own sympathies , your loyalties divided . |
| 7 | As a result of their conversations they were able to draw up a list of MPs favourable to abolition . |
| 8 | As late as 1960 all of the ‘ officers ’ , as the Lord Chancellor 's legal staff were known , not officials as elsewhere in the civil service , were able to sit around a not particularly large octagonal table in the Permanent Secretary 's room at his fortnightly office meetings . |
| 9 | In 1851 , which , with symbolic appropriateness , was the year in which a hungry urban population exceeded for the first time the population of the countryside , drainage-minded landlords up from the shires were able to carry away a wealth of interesting ideas from the Great Exhibition . |
| 10 | Evaluation by achievement Performance measurement was carried out after each series of courses , by means of examination of each student 's list of references , in order to see whether the students were able to carry out a practical literature search . |
| 11 | The Melrose pack were able to step up a gear when they wanted , especially with Gala 's entire front row absent . |
| 12 | David Rose , head chef at Ernst and Young in London , suggested an approach to the Hoskyns Group , and our sales team were able to tie up a new contract . |
| 13 | They were able to drum up a great deal of press and radio material on the sorry plight of British beer . |
| 14 | And Kraemer and Ossenkopp ( 1986 ) , in an experiment formally equivalent to that reported by Kraemer and Roberts , were able to find only a small and statistically unreliable effect using milk as the flavour ( see Fig. 4.3 ) . |
| 15 | We were fortunate in finding Longmans ( India ) interested in the project , and with the aid of a subsidy for each book were able to put the price as low as eight annas a copy , and in return for the subsidy were able to hand over a sizeable number of each book for distribution to the Army , Navy and RAF . |
| 16 | For example , if you were able to work out a new method of organizing stock shelves so that components were more quickly available to people on the factory floor this would show perfectly that you ‘ are able to show initiative ’ . |
| 17 | In Pomerania , where in practice serfdom was to last almost a generation longer than in any other corner of Europe , the Prussians were able to prevent even a narrow coincidence of interests between the Polish nobles and peasants by inviting the nobles to leave and by inviting the peasants to become Prussians . |
| 18 | First , the leader of the majority group now becomes the leader of the council — a position many officers were reluctant to recognise even a few years ago — and acts as a political ‘ chief executive ’ . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly princes were concerned to build up a position of strength during their fathers ' lifetimes . |
| 20 | At this stage , it is unlikely that the French were anxious to carry out a conquest of Aquitaine . |
| 21 | Some , through failing health or eyesight , were obliged to go down a couple of rungs on the ladder however , and there are an increasing number of cases in the 1940s of former compositors working as copy-holders for lower pay . |
| 22 | This meant that we were obliged to make quite a number of our tools . |
| 23 | AFTER A couple of years on the indie circuit , Arista signed The Hollow Men , releasing their ‘ Cresta ’ album late last year , and it looked like these hard-working Leeds-based popsters were ready to step up a league and move on to a new , higher profile . |
| 24 | They were ready to dig out a badger when the terrier came across one . |
| 25 | Since it was possible to examine only a sample of such studies , what follows is aimed to reflect the fact of risk related fertility patterns rather than to give an accounting of the extent and paths of influence . |
| 26 | After unearthing four bricks , a milk bottle , and an unidentifiable piece of metal , it was possible to turn over a forkful of earth on that spot . |
| 27 | It only takes a little imagination to turn the Cam pit into a nature reserve and if it was possible to lay out a few paths making nature trails etc. the future of the Great Pit that Rugby Cement Works are now engaged in could in years to come make an ideal game reserve and possible " marina " with a link to the river . |
| 28 | This meant that it was possible to make up a test focused at the middle of the target attainment range with a minimum of trialling . |
| 29 | Assuming it was impractical to produce immediately a system which would do everything that personnel management wanted , which were the most important factors ? |
| 30 | There was an immediate indication that he was prepared to turn over a new leaf . |