Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing was confirmed until recently , and even these gigs we 've just done in South America were only a testing ground to see how Brian would feel being the lead singer and mainman in general . |
| 2 | That was 1870 ; yet in 1881 Frances Mary Buss [ Miss Buss and Miss Beale/Cupid 's darts do not feel/How different from us/are Miss Beale and Miss Buss ] could say ‘ There is now no such thing as a ‘ woman 's education question ’ , ’ even if that were only a half truth . |
| 3 | In those days they were basically a mime company , though their grotesque appearance , and their ability to wring wild laughter from the depiction of desperate , squalid lives , marked them out as something special . |
| 4 | ‘ The Protons were basically a punk rock band , ’ Lenny explains , as the ‘ Weed luxuriate in the compact and bijou confines of the third support band 's dressing facilities at the London Astoria , ‘ and these two guys were doing a '60s R&B thing . |
| 5 | The council later abandoned its plans to widen the highway and the reversion passed to the first defendants , who were not a highway authority . |
| 6 | Eisenhower claimed in 1955 that the tests were not a health hazard . |
| 7 | The train from Sao Paulo to the Bolivian border had been clean and comfortable , and the town of Coromba on the Pantanal made you regret you were not a train robber on the run in search of a safe haven . |
| 8 | ‘ You were always a cigar man , were n't you Barney ? |
| 9 | ‘ You were once a university lecturer ? |
| 10 | Er you were still a head shunter for I think about five years after after |
| 11 | Wendt , a noted hardcore fan way back in the days when Nirvana were still a mod band , has been presenting the acts on Saturday Night Live for some years . |
| 12 | They were clearly a family treasure . |
| 13 | , William ( 1903–1971 ) , bookmaker , was born in Birmingham 16 July 1903 , the second son and fourth of the eleven children ( there were also a twin son and daughter who died at birth ) of William Hill , journeyman coach-painter , and his wife Lavinia Knight , the daughter of a farmer , who also kept an inn on the border of Warwickshire and Leicestershire . |
| 14 | The races were now a holiday occasion covering several days and very well attended . |
| 15 | If you were n't a church guy . |
| 16 | there were quite a bit Lyness , because I remember once the Hoy Head coming down from Stromness with a lot of party makers aboard it and cameras out and afore they knew where they were the admiralty men was there whipping the films out of the cameras . |
| 17 | The results for this question were almost a mirror image of those for the preceding question , with the negative response to the proposition from the majority of sole practitioners easily cancelling out the positive answer given by the bulk of the remaining respondents . |
| 18 | Jim Moodie , who was rather a surprise winner of the earlier 600cc , showed he had lost none of his talent when leading all the way to out-gun Brian Reid with third place going to another Scot Ian Simpson . |
| 19 | Second , Northampton was predominantly a rugby centre . |
| 20 | The Minister said that all of the activities of the civil rights movement had indicated that it was predominantly a Republican body , and activities in Derry did not disprove that . |
| 21 | The UK was effectively a back number from that moment . |
| 22 | In August , Charlotte ( Cecil ) Leitch , the English Champion , returned partnering Lady Rathcreedan against Mr. and Mrs. Norman Craig ( M.P. ) , in what was presumably a celebrity match . |
| 23 | But the lesson had not been learned , and when Benn fought Eubank as a champion 18 months later , he believed the fight was merely a stepping stone towards big-money outings in America . |
| 24 | As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it . |
| 25 | Wothorpe House , because of its ruinous state , its unusual design and its proximity to the site of Wothorpe nunnery , is also a victim of such mythology , but it was merely a dower house for widows of the earls and marquesses at Burghley . |
| 26 | The fact that she was basically a kind soul did not mean that she was soft on Sally-Anne or herself . |
| 27 | William Green was basically a family man . |
| 28 | The deal , which was basically a barter arrangement for 1991 , was Bulgaria 's first intergovernmental agreement with a Soviet republic . |
| 29 | He was obviously a city kid through and through . ’ |
| 30 | The pillowcase on what was obviously a chair cushion was also presumably his . |