Example sentences of "[was/were] a [noun] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently Myrcans and Hearthwares were a rarity in these parts . |
| 2 | ‘ Loretta ! ’ he exclaimed , greeting her as if she were a friend of many years ' standing . |
| 3 | The workshop classes were a mixture of all grades of academy , and it was here that I found common ground absorbing my trade instruction ; and happily in this field I was able not to be as conspicuous as I was at school . |
| 4 | Finances and family responsibilities were a struggle in those days , with her eldest daughter minding her three-year-old youngest child while Brown was out acting . |
| 5 | Over the next few days , however , there were a number of such incidents and some of them did not end so happily . |
| 6 | Halzman caught sight of him in an overhead mirror — there were a number of such mirrors around , speaking as well as any other kind of sound was kept to a minimum in the sonar room — removed his earphones and gestured to the seat beside him . |
| 7 | I tell you another thing that amazes me , how any one with a Sovereign right , were a Sovereign in those days , could have given up the palace of Westminster which is so beautiful , palace , together I suppose reigned after the Duke of is it ? |
| 8 | Many towns were a forest of such towers but most of these have now been demolished . |
| 9 | Trips to project exhibitions of library resources and visits to library suppliers ' showrooms were a revelation for some teachers as to the variety and sophistication of recent publications in their area of the curriculum . |
| 10 | She did much for the Red Cross , Girl Guides and the Royal Society for the Blind , and was a magistrate for many years . |
| 11 | Not that he was a stickler for such things ; he thought courtesy titles rather silly , in fact ; but she always used to call him ‘ Esquire ’ . |
| 12 | Such incidents were highly embarrassing to the union , and it was a relief on some occasions to record that the offenders were not members , but had been supplied by the Shipping Federation . |
| 13 | The accession of Gerald Ford to the presidency in 1974 was a relief for many Americans . |
| 14 | Frank 's departure was a relief in many ways : for the first time in two years someone from our group had gone home ; Frank would now be free from fear while Brian and I could carry on together . |
| 15 | She said that there was a variety of such measures . |
| 16 | To the outside world what was happening was a tightening-up of some matters , a clearing out of unexamined clutter and the creation of a sense of accountability . |
| 17 | Held , allowing the appeal , that it was a requirement of all leases and tenancy agreements that the term created was of certain duration ; that the lease purportedly created under the memorandum of agreement , being for an uncertain period , was void and the land was held on a yearly tenancy created by virtue of the tenant 's possession and payment of yearly rent , on such terms of the memorandum of agreement as were consistent with a yearly tenancy ; and that , accordingly , since the term preventing the landlord from determining the tenancy until the land was required for road widening purposes was inconsistent with the right of either party under a yearly tenancy to determine it on six months ' notice , the plaintiffs ' tenancy had been lawfully determined ( post , pp. 283B–C , F–G , 284G–H , 285E–F , 286E–F , H — 287B , G–H ) . |
| 18 | Well it was a question in those days whether you got a bay window or a flat window I mean erm the houses down Street are better quality I suppose really er all property around there is rented , I mean no one bought the houses at all not even up , I mean they were all rented houses . |
| 19 | The visit to Seaworld was a favourite with many children who shrieked with delight as they got a soaking from Shamu the killer whale . |
| 20 | Marjorie , the youngest , was a schoolgirl in those days . |
| 21 | By God , it was a must in those days , pearl barley . |
| 22 | Perhaps his aspect was a function of those involutes of memory of which I have spoken ; and his combination of these attributes , the brutish apparel of the Malay , the features of a bibulous beadle and his predilection for opium were no mere chance but a deep expression of my own pain ? |
| 23 | There was a clearing among some trees close to the river and a number of two-wheeled carts had been parked there . |
| 24 | It was a triumph beyond all expectations . |
| 25 | A series of firedamp explosions shook the mines , causing fearful injuries — though the high accident rate was a commonplace in these parts . |
| 26 | Truman as president was a surprise to many Americans . |
| 27 | The vote in the General Synod , 384 to 169 , was a surprise to both sides , who had been saying the result would be too close to predict . |
| 28 | He was a member of several committees and panels of the Joint Matriculation Board , and ran School tennis . |
| 29 | But that was a mistake in more ways than one . |
| 30 | Ireland was a nightmare for all parties ; the fifty-year respite gained by Lloyd George in 1921 was certainly based on pragmatism rather than principle but no other policy could have worked . |