Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Faber , 27 , was formerly a sports presenter on Super Channel and the BBC 's Ski Sunday . |
| 2 | It is significant that during the second and third centuries B.C. what was probably a customs post at Begram , Afghanistan , on the route between China and the west was handling ivory as well as glass and bronzes from the west in addition to lacquer bowls from China . |
| 3 | He was by trade a painter-stainer , a craft which in 1581 included face painters , history painters , arms ( heraldic ) painters and house painters ; Treswell was probably an arms painter , for he painted streamers and banners for several City companies . |
| 4 | One of the two men accused of murdering a police informer was also a drugs dealer , according to evidence given by the prosecution on the second day of their trial . |
| 5 | The famous inscription from Brough-on-Humber ( vicus Petuariensis ) , attesting the presence of a theatre , shows that some vici possessed magistrates with the title of aedile , although we may be dealing here with a site which was also a civitas capital . |
| 6 | The man was evidently a police officer , off duty . |
| 7 | They came each year in tens of thousands before the Civil War , in hundreds of thousands for the twenty years after it , until the completion of the railway network and the advance of the plough on the prairies brought the classical period of the ‘ Wild West ’ ( which was essentially a cattle economy ) to an end in the 1880s . |
| 8 | In the early days , Sainsbury 's was essentially a provisions merchant , trading primarily in fresh foods such as dairy products , poultry and game , fresh meats , bacon and hams . |