Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pakistan 's start was not quite as grim as India 's at Headingley in 1952 , when the first four batsmen were out before a run had been registered , nor did it quite compare with Australia 's second innings at Brisbane in 1950 , when Bedser and Bailey send back the first three without a run on the board . |
| 2 | In Rice v. Connolly , the landmark decision establishing that this is the law , it was said that this was so because a refusal to answer questions was not ‘ wilful , ’ an expression that their Lordships interpreted to mean ‘ without lawful excuse . ’ |
| 3 | Leading the way to her sitting-room , she turned to face him , and saw that any gentleness of expression was long since a thing of the past . |
| 4 | Clouds towered on every side , and the attacking front was less than a mile to their left . |
| 5 | Her address was less than a mile from the shop , but Folly had asked Lisa to keep it until last in the route she had mapped out . |
| 6 | The beach was less than a furlong from the centre . |
| 7 | It seemed amazing that it was less than a year since that had been said . |
| 8 | McCartney was less than a year older and even Ringo , the ‘ old man ’ of '60s pop was just 23 . |
| 9 | It was less than a year since he had marched into this office , having forsaken the job of Director General of the Security Service for what he regarded as a promotion , while the men of Century recoiled at what they saw as a political insult . |
| 10 | It was less than a year ago , though it seemed far longer , that they had kept each other company at Ockham House during the long bleak hours it had taken Mary Ladram to die . |
| 11 | The proportion of premature births was almost three times as high if the interval was less than a year . |
| 12 | John was born in Belfast but placed in care in England when he was less than a year old . |
| 13 | Although he had had a smoker 's cough for many years , it was less than a year ago that he was diagnosed as having incurable lung cancer . |
| 14 | Left-booted , he forced the bike upright as he hit the water , which was less than a foot deep . |
| 15 | His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too . |
| 16 | There was less than a yard between the beds . |
| 17 | Our house was less than a kilometre from the pick-up point . |
| 18 | Coventry Cathedral Priory declared possessions worth £500 , but its debts left it £52 in the red ; similarly its net income was less than a quarter of the gross . |
| 19 | I stepped carefully over the city wall , which was less than a metre high , and walked slowly through the two main streets . |
| 20 | Presley City 's up-town morning traffic was less than a match for it . |
| 21 | Although the original intention was to devote every Thursday morning during the autumn term to the project , the time spent each week was less than a morning as pupils from Sutton School had to be transported one and half miles to Russells Hall , and other events such as school assemblies delayed the start each Thursday . |
| 22 | It was less than an hour from dusk , and we would have camped there had it been left to me . |
| 23 | It was less than an hour since Chen had come from the singsong house ; not time enough for anyone to have discovered Liu Chang 's body , or for the girls to have undone their bonds . |
| 24 | Working on George 's local knowledge — his father 's home was less than an hour 's drive away — they planned to reach Miss Tuckey 's cottage at half past eight when the other committee members would have had time to digest and drive in from the countryside . |
| 25 | One of them was less than an inch away from his eye as he lay buckled up on the ground beneath the tree . |
| 26 | ‘ You do n't want to marry me — ’ his hot mouth was less than an inch above her face as she stared resolutely at his dark red silk tie ‘ — but there 's something else you do want to do with me . ’ |
| 27 | An estate for life was less than an estate tail , and both were smaller than a fee simple . |
| 28 | In Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 the central issue was not whether a child patient under the age of 16 could refuse medical treatment if the parents or the court consented , but whether the parents could effectively impose a veto on treatment by failing or refusing to consent to treatment to which the child might consent . |
| 29 | The issue in Gallagher was not whether an appellant could raise a non-certified point but whether the House itself could depart from the certified question and address what it took to be the true question arising . |
| 30 | Despite such pressure , and despite the evidence of the dangers of lead to children and unborn babies , it was not until an EEC Directive of 1985 stated that member countries must make unleaded petrol widely available by October 1989 that CLEAR 's proposals were followed up . |