Example sentences of "were [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were aboard a vessel that was either going to go up or drag you down when it sank , what would your natural reaction be ? ’ |
| 2 | Curiously , of John 's first hundred Palace appearances , almost half were as a substitute and , although he demonstrated great potential , he never really established himself as a regular member of our side until the autumn of 1990 . |
| 3 | Only 63% of marriages were between a bachelor and spinster in 1989 , compared with 79% in 1971 . |
| 4 | There were between a quarter and a half a million people registered as out of work . |
| 5 | Having arrived in the dead quiet of the afternoon , I had the place to myself which was fortunate since all 30 prints were of a scale that demanded close contemplation . |
| 6 | Of these , 700 were of a banking or economic nature ; 129 were industrial visits and the remainder were social events . |
| 7 | They were still interested in patterns rather than processes , although the patterns they were now discussing were of a kind that Darwin would be able to explain . |
| 8 | Attitudes were originally selected as possible determinants of child development because they were of a general and abstract nature ; but their use as anything but abbreviated labels has now been abandoned just because they are so abstract and general . |
| 9 | Scotland had papers like the The Scotsman and Glasgow Herald that were too Scottish to be ‘ national ’ yet were of a quality that depressed the Scottish sales of papers such as The Times and The Daily Telegraph . |
| 10 | Under his dark , quizzical gaze she felt as if she were under a microscope as she forced her legs to move , glued a polite smile on her lips . |
| 11 | And I had a se , you know , I mean you you were aware that you were in a coach and you 'd you 'd wake up occasionally and realise you we , but by enlarge I had eight hours sleep ! |
| 12 | The streets were in a dip and could n't easily be seen from the estate . |
| 13 | True , I had the somewhat grisly T-shirt and track-suit bottoms which had gamely seen me through a two-hour run-through , but they were in a state and could probably have walked unaided to the BBC on their own . |
| 14 | ‘ They were in a state because the more they struggled the deeper they sank . ’ |
| 15 | Tod : ‘ What would you do if you were in a theatre and you saw flames and smoke ? ’ |
| 16 | They were in a minority but were expected between them to meet the sexual needs of the men . |
| 17 | Steamships were in a minority until about 1890 and in any case tended to take the shorter voyages . |
| 18 | They were good value , because they were in a style that he could wear anywhere and they were strong enough for all his walking and kept his feet from being bruised on the city pavements , for when you walk as much and as far as Boy did at that time you can hurt your feet badly . |
| 19 | We did n't go to the funeral , but me cousin Dora who was Aunt Lucy 's daughter , she got there was er Walter , , Walter and Leonard were in a pram and me cousin Dora went down Lane and wh to the corner of Street and watched the funeral go past up to I 've got vague memories of that they 're not clear but I do know that he took us to watch me dad 's funeral past the corner of Street and I presume that now that it must have gone up Street up to Street street , cos he 's buried at Ryecroft . |
| 20 | ‘ We were in a mess and were sinking . |
| 21 | They were in a corridor that was lined on one side with a six-foot-high bank of cages . |
| 22 | So profuse are the flowers , so many the farms and plantations of banana , coconut , fruit and vegetables around the middle of the city that you would sometimes wonder if you were in a park or a great tropical garden . |
| 23 | Tim and Pistol were in a pub when Pistol had been made angry by the men in the pub . |
| 24 | Later that evening , they were in a pub and my friend placed a pound coin in another condom machine . |
| 25 | Surely , if the train were in a station when the emergency occurred , you would get out and run away as fast as possible . |
| 26 | We were in a hole and are n't out of it by any means . |
| 27 | The reason it 's in this format , is this is now the national standard form of accounts for social services , and the thinking behind it is , whether you were an authority that provided all of its services directly at one extreme , or at the other extreme , you were in a party that provided no direct services , and bought them all in from other providers , you would still need to meet , to meet those costs . |
| 28 | Er I ca n't remember I was n't with them but we , we were in a spot and erm some of the tanks were away down there and some were up here and we , the next move we went to . |
| 29 | Her senses were in a whirl but she tried to hold on to her sanity . |
| 30 | ‘ To have gone to such lengths to destroy — ’ Meredith heard his muttered expletive , but he said no more — just began to pace the room with a restless air as if he were in a prison and desperate to get out . |