Example sentences of "an [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Here there is a variation in background belief and ‘ subjective feeling ‘ perhaps , but which allows for either judgement being preferred , even were I totally unaware of what an Archbishop was . |
| 2 | I was thrilled that someone as important as the Archbishop of Canterbury had taken the time to call me , although I could n't help but think it odd that an Archbishop was now leaving messages on the same answering machine as my mum . |
| 3 | An archbishop was a regional magnate . |
| 4 | The timber roof of an outbuilding was destroyed when a steamcleaner caught fire at Dixon 's Garage , Guisborough Road , Nunthorpe , at 12.30pm yesterday . |
| 5 | The reason the Republicans won an election was ‘ Ike 's father image ’ . |
| 6 | The first Free Presbyterian involvement in an election was a classically ad hoc and reactive affair . |
| 7 | However , an election was fought , and there could only be one winner . |
| 8 | For most voters , when an election was contested , it was a case of staying with the safest , and strongest , patron . |
| 9 | ‘ In my work I am involved in life and death situations so , on the scale of things , I decided that losing an election was not a matter for heartbreak . ’ |
| 10 | In 1912 official control over the Legislative Council was reduced when an election was held for an ‘ Educated Ceylonese ’ seat . |
| 11 | In 1935 the fact that an Election was anticipated had probably increased support for the Peace Ballot : but that was because the Aeon had steered clear of party politics . |
| 12 | The decision to call an election was prompted by the prime minister 's failure to heal a split among his followers over accusations that state-owned companies had been arm-twisted into making contributions to the party . |
| 13 | He put forward the unconvincing view that an election was never part of the plan . |
| 14 | However it just so happens the last time an election was n't on a Thursday was in er I think it was nineteen thirty one when it was held on a Tuesday . |
| 15 | If the judges refused to enforce the offensive legislation and an election was held with the same result followed by a reintroduction of the legislation , what would judges then do ? |
| 16 | Up till now , anyone who was away on holiday when an election was held lost the right to vote , and some people who were away because of their work lost their vote too . |
| 17 | An election was fought and massively won on the issue in 1904 . |
| 18 | ( The then Fine Gael-Labour government had collapsed , and in the event an election was called which Fianna Fáil won . ) |
| 19 | Such a threat may constitute a bluff in that the prime minister would have more to lose if an election was called than would most MPs ( the PM could lose office : most seats are safe seats and so most MPs could expect to be reelected ) , but nonetheless it has proved a potent influence in determining parliamentary behaviour . |
| 20 | If it were not for the uninspiring mug-shots of individual candidates on the bleak official hoardings and the mercifully brief ( maximum one minute ) party political broadcasts on radio and television , one would hardly know that an election was on . |
| 21 | Interestingly , it was at this very juncture that an addition was made to the show for the revival — a movement which is not found either in the score or the 1692 quarto , but which is printed on the second of the single-sheet inserts in Q1693 . |
| 22 | In addition , an attack toward Cambrai had been scheduled for November , and an offensive was due to begin in Italy . |
| 23 | Saddam had returned to the south , to keep an eye on developments , as soon as an offensive was regarded as likely . |
| 24 | So skilled an illustrator was Rackham , that the reader begins to believe that trees have faces , mermaids gather shells beneath the sea and fairies fly through Kensington Gardens . |
| 25 | Towards the end of 1986 an AEC was launched and has been running ever since . |
| 26 | An SBU was taken to be any subsidiary business interest of the group which could be said to be largely separable and could be treated as having a commercial life of its own . |
| 27 | Lady Cook subsequently lent it to the National Gallery , London , from October 1989 to February of this year , where , for the first time seen in the company of undisputed masterpieces by Antonello , its autograph status as an Antonello was regained . |
| 28 | I ca n't remember exactly when in the sequence it first began to dawn on me that an evolved resemblance to something like an insect was possible . |
| 29 | The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female . |
| 30 | And many an insect was saved , perhaps from the very same predator , by an uncannily close resemblance to a twig , on occasions when the predator happened to be seeing it at relatively close range and in a good light . |