Example sentences of "was a [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a typical women 's downhill course : relatively low-speed , but extremely technical with tight corners . |
| 2 | It was a veritable hornets ' nest ! |
| 3 | He was a real teachers ' pet , worse than me . |
| 4 | The result was a threatened players ' strike in 1909 , which led the authorities to re-recognize the union . |
| 5 | It was a favourite prisoners ' jeer at the guards , though unfair in view of the relative safety of the prisoners ' position . |
| 6 | George Wood had hinted , and not too darkly , about the ‘ lads ’ who knew how to get past the guards and into the mines at night : he had intimated that there was a prosperous smugglers ' route through the highest mountain passes to the coast where the ore would be taken over to Ireland or down to Liverpool and Swansea . |
| 7 | His popular wife , who was a National Farmers ' Union branch secretary before the birth of their children , is seen in the constituency as calm and strong , but also gentle and kind . |
| 8 | It was a wonderful succès d'estime for him and his miming — he had to mime building a cathedral — was spell-binding . ’ |