Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It were half a bottle of Evian , 12 grapes , a piece of cheese and a small tomato . |
| 2 | And then of course the there were some a lot of them mass produced then there was the mass producer come in then . |
| 3 | There were such a lot of us … |
| 4 | ‘ There were such a lot of women in his life . |
| 5 | There were such a lot of people there . |
| 6 | and they were such a load of dicks when we first met , you know , and they 're just like trying to impress all the time and now I mean you 've been here for , what , a year and , year and a bit and |
| 7 | One general practitioner , who works in a large multipartner practice in Worksop , said that the community care reforms were all a bit of a mystery . |
| 8 | Hopefully , by the time the lingering effects of physical addiction have worn off , there will be sufficient group cohesion and peer pressure to persuade the sufferer to stay in treatment and thereby counter-act the urge to believe that the problems were all a lot of fuss about nothing . |
| 9 | I 'd believe anything bad about anybody , if I did n't know they were all a load of bloody liars . ’ |
| 10 | In our squadron was a man I call an elderly because at the time he was about forty to forty five years old and we were all a bunch of kids . |
| 11 | ‘ Was that a friend of yours ? |
| 12 | Was that a way of getting his own back ? |
| 13 | ‘ Was that a slip of the tongue , Leonora ? |
| 14 | Was that a note of desperation in Piper 's voice ? |
| 15 | Was that a note of pique in his voice ? |
| 16 | Was that a reaffirmation of his opinion of her ? |
| 17 | It was half a tumbler of whisky . |
| 18 | There was half a chance of an equaliser when Magilton got going again to send Penney racing clear , but by then Grimsby had the points in their net . |
| 19 | Was this a case of folie de grandeur , in which Britain 's economic recovery was sacrificed to anachronistic ( and unsocialist ? ) attempts to retain a great power stance in the world ? |
| 20 | Was this a way of working on the quality of the strings ? |
| 21 | Was this a trick of the witch 's to keep her there until she could catch up with her , or was it … ? |
| 22 | Indeed , to stay at the Langham was such a mark of having arrived in the world , that in a nineteenth century fraud case , a witness would declare : ‘ I knew he was a perfect gentleman . |
| 23 | She has done it much better , and there was such a quantity of it here ; I dreaded the child coming in , as much as others must have done , but for different reasons . |
| 24 | And there was such a look of stark relief in his eyes that his beloved cousin was safe , after all , that , just for a moment , to hide her own pain , Ronni had to drop her gaze away . |
| 25 | There must have been a cosiness to the street once , but now there was such a sense of decay that Jack could almost smell it . |
| 26 | There was such a variety of activities and competitions for all ages — tennis , windsurfing , dinghy sailing , table tennis ( some of which had free instruction ) . |
| 27 | This fact , and the limited spread of settled land suggested in Chapter IV , do much to explain the lack of vocal protest about settlements which was such a feature of the early modern counterpart of the Roman settlement . |
| 28 | The draughtsmen were by this time becoming separated from the engineers , in that specialization which was such a feature of all aspects of life in the age of science . |
| 29 | This kind of higher popularization was an aspect of the specialization which was such a feature of the nineteenth century , and since . |
| 30 | Indeed , there was such a degree of integration between the two that even modern Spain retains a powerful element of Orientalism within its cultural makeup . |