Example sentences of "was [adv] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was admittedly a fiki but he was very restrained and seemed anxious to keep himself invisible at the back . |
| 2 | There was no amorous intent about it , because Matt had assured her that Silas was not a ladies ' man . |
| 3 | It was not a careers forum and he reckoned that that title was a misnomer . |
| 4 | Did it have any connection with the Castle Museum opposite the court , which was once a women 's prison ? |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Mrs Faber , 27 , was formerly a sports presenter on Super Channel and the BBC 's Ski Sunday . |
| 7 | We can go back to 1480 , when the men of Halling and Snodland were charged to appear before the Bishop for playing tennis in Holy Week and we know that there was anciently a butts at Halling where the men of the village practised their archery . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That was true , but it was also a ti me of shock , suspended animation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was , naturally , heavy with lectures and discussion groups but there was also a scenes of him shows and plays as well as street theatre , concerts and exhibitions . |
| 13 | There was also a policemen all night on Bridge , all night . |
| 14 | This was originally a boys ’ grammar school . |
| 15 | School B was originally a girls ’ grammar school . |
| 16 | Anyone who was n't a wheels-on railwayman was demonstrably stupid . |
| 17 | It was n't a ladies ’ retiring room when he was here . |
| 18 | and thought it was a reservations line oh was sorry it was n't a reservations line and that it was just an enquiry line . |
| 19 | This was n't a police state and 1984 was a long way off . |
| 20 | He was n't a customs officer for nothing . |
| 21 | There was quite a fireworks display . |
| 22 | The late Tim Brookshaw , not famous for faint-heartedness , danced an eloquent jig on top of the last fence at Leicester to show how hard it was , and one day there was almost a jockeys ' strike at Plumpton . |
| 23 | Okay , well , the thing is why was there a women 's army , we all know that . |
| 24 | The man was evidently a police officer , off duty . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was the fact that this was essentially a planters ' system which ensured that the stations were built of a standard and elegance which a plantocracy could use with comfort . |