Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | P. Yeah Reese ( Simpson ) , Monty Nolder , Mouse , Bryan Pennington , Jeff Phillips and Jason Parks were over here a short while back and we went up to meet them and skate at Bury . |
| 2 | There are perhaps 36 skulls in all and there were at least a million Armenian dead . |
| 3 | But the same evidence could have led to a theory celebrating the system which , by laying down norms , establishing disciplines and , most important of all , providing scripts that , while not always particularly imaginative , were at least a sound basis to work from , enabled these directors to realize their individual vision . |
| 4 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 5 | There were at least a dozen big-wave specialists on the North Shore who , if the Eddie Aikau were actually to be held , could reasonably expect to make a small fortune . |
| 6 | The footsteps were getting nearer and from the sound of it there were at least a dozen men . |
| 7 | Windmills , which had begun to come into existence during the 16th century were by now a common sight throughout the Lothians . |
| 8 | But London was for ever a sensitive place in the eyes of the English kings , watched with jealous eyes from the White Tower , built by William I at the south-east comer of its defences — and from further off in the great royal palace of Westminster . |
| 9 | His second great contribution was the functional method in anthropology , which despite its defects was for long a valuable associational mode of approach to the study of human behaviour and social institutions . |
| 10 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
| 11 | The racing was of quite a high standard . |
| 12 | When he finally got around to writing to Jardine on 9 September , it was with only a cursory description of his achievements . |
| 13 | It was with almost a certain sense of relief that Delvert returned to his regiment . |
| 14 | in case you did n't notice I was in rather a little bit of a mood on Friday ! |
| 15 | ‘ He went upstairs to see some rat holes … they certainly were enormous — and discovered that the room in which the food of the Gods was mixed … was in quite a disgraceful order . ’ |
| 16 | and it was in quite a big space , I could off got in behind him and then changed if I 'd reversed in but when I saw this other chap sat in his car and then he indicated he wanted to pull out , so I let him go |
| 17 | Even this was in quite a congested area and from 25 October 1944 , the cars carried on , out of service to the Coombe Road crossover and reversed there . |
| 18 | The carcass , unfortunately , was in quite an advanced state of decomposition by the time we got to it , so we could not look at the detailed histology ( cell structure ) of the internal organs or the central nervous system . |
| 19 | Tracy Cullimore was until recently a European market researcher for John Laing Construction and has subsequently established her own research business . |
| 20 | That you se it was , it was on here a few times he talks deliberately , and rather slow |
| 21 | The intense barrage fire of our artillery sweeping the whole slope of the hill was at once a magnificent and awe-inspiring sight ; the Mort Homme flamed like a volcano , and the air and the earth alike trembled at the shock of thousands of bursting shells . |
| 22 | Taji Bey ( Tacizade Cafer Celebi : d. 921/1515 ) who , as a muderris , having reached the Mahmud Pasa medrese in Istanbul , the status of which is uncertain but which was at least a 40-akce medrese , left teaching to become nisanci twice , from 903/1497–8 to 917/1511 and again early in the reign of Selim I , and then Anadolu kazasker In Sha'ban 920/October 1514 , in which post he was executed on 8 Rajab 921/18 August 1515 . |
| 23 | The plaintiff had to prove that the breach of duty was at least a material contributory cause of the harm . |
| 24 | At the latest count it was at least a hundred and fifty . |
| 25 | Or , the US could try to overcome the political disability of association with what was at least a latent French colonial enterprise ; as midwife help to bring the independent state of Vietnam into existence ; and , as godfather , protect and support it in a cruel world . |
| 26 | The course the Governors decided upon was to increase numbers in planned stages to about 1,000 , which would entail a much smaller rise in the fees , and also to admit girls : this would avoid any potential lowering of standards , for there was a demand for places for girls , and there was at least a moral commitment to take some of the Convent 's Sixth Formers when it closed . |
| 27 | ‘ Killed in action ’ was at least a positive end , but ‘ Prisoner of war ’ — waiting for two or three years for other people to win the war for you — was just ineffectual and pitiable , an end which was also not an end . |
| 28 | In 1983 , the Attorney General issued new guidelines to the police which suggested that in all cases they should prosecute only when there was at least a 50 per cent . |
| 29 | Another factor , however , was related to the city itself ; the entrenched and static nature of politics in the city did not encourage activities which assumed that there was at least a little capacity for the political system to respond to popular campaigning . |
| 30 | Up until the eve of the First World War resistance and insurrection , although limited , had persisted particularly in the wild hill country of the Sino-Vietnamese border and when the war began in 1914 and the reserves of power available to France , both French and Vietnamese , began to be drained off there was at least a local opportunity for revived resistance . |