Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were respectively a banker 's son , a Junker and a retired army major , and between them they represented the whole range of Junker-middle-class collusion and delusion . |
| 2 | but they were always a bit erm unhappy when they gave up so much time and er there was nobody there to listen to them when when they got there . |
| 3 | We think it would be a sad day if local plans and structure plans were purely a restatement er of P P G three . |
| 4 | ITA powers over programming would make it more difficult , even , to argue that poor performance was wholly a contractor 's fault . |
| 5 | ( This was presumably a wag 's idea ) . |
| 6 | Liza was obviously a man 's woman . |
| 7 | It was perhaps a coward 's answer , and he was honest enough to admit it . |
| 8 | But , as someone had once said to her — she could n't remember who — hate was only a hair 's breadth away from love . |
| 9 | There was only a year 's difference in our ages . |
| 10 | Cecilia could also vividly remember Tina 's first venture at the School and the founding of the commune , the reputation it earned in a place which , after all , was only a stone 's throw — within easy bell-sound — of her own house . |
| 11 | And even if Robbie decided to remain independent , she would visit her family … knowing that Fen was only a stone 's throw away — with his wife . |
| 12 | And Nicky wanted to , it was only a cock 's stride down the road . |
| 13 | When the Renault stopped , the Jaguar was exactly a car 's length behind . |
| 14 | He was just a butcher 's son from Ipswich who had risen to be Lord Chancellor and leading churchman of England . |
| 15 | She wanted to say something , he felt , and the cigarette was just a moment 's loss of nerve . |
| 16 | But this was just a dentist 's waiting room and it made him wonder what the rest of the house would be like . |
| 17 | According to the W.I. Survey , 1975 , there was once a cooper 's workshop here . |
| 18 | This was once a gamekeeper 's cottage belonging to a large estate . |
| 19 | Did it have any connection with the Castle Museum opposite the court , which was once a women 's prison ? |
| 20 | I write at the top of the house , in an attic that was once a housemaid 's bedroom . |
| 21 | A few low hovels that had once been homes to river people were now derelict , and an empty building which was once a sailmaker 's and then a barge-builder 's premises now stood empty after its last owner , a steam-traction engineer , foundered in the changing times . |
| 22 | Er , well there was always a problem er food-wise , because there was a scarcity , there was a sc an overall scarcity er of food . |
| 23 | To keep a pony in the middle of a town , and keep him fit , was hard work , as he had to be exercised every day , and the surrounding neighbourhood was hardly a horseman 's paradise . |
| 24 | But he was still a haberdasher 's assistant . |
| 25 | As Young and Willmott ( 1973 , p. 227 ) say ‘ there was still a women 's world and a men 's , in social contacts as in other ways . ’ |
| 26 | R S P C A officials think the pony was probably a child 's pet and are surprised that no one is missing him . |
| 27 | In the distant past there was also a cobbler 's shop , a tailor 's establishment and various carrier 's businesses . |
| 28 | There was often a warrener 's house with sheds where feed , nets , and other equipment would have been kept , and sometimes a boundary , rather like a park pale , can be distinguished around the warren area . |
| 29 | The so-called Executioner 's Axe was really a woodman 's axe on a long handle . |
| 30 | Work was now a day 's climbing , as well as a sea crossing away and all but forgotten . |