Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [adv] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The titles were not ones with which she was familiar : The Book Of Dzyan , The Book of Eibon , The Golden Bough , Ludwig Prinn 's De Vermiis Mysteriis , The Beginner 's Guide to the Necronomicon , and others whose titles were written in so indecipherable a script that she could n't read it . |
| 2 | Quasi-periodic solutions were found at sufficiently small a , and chaotic solutions developed after a sequence of period doublings as f is increased when a = 0.05 ( see Fig. 2.23 ) . |
| 3 | They were posing for just such a photocall at Klosters in February 1986 , when the photographers suddenly noticed another figure standing in the background , dressed in a Davy Crockett-style fur headband . |
| 4 | It has often been asserted that England was favoured in just such a way on the eve of her industrial revolution . |
| 5 | The Beijing massacre , after all , was preceded by just such a struggle . |
| 6 | The Beijing massacre , after all , was preceded by just such a struggle . |
| 7 | The magazine was launched ceremoniously and seven weeks later was scuppered in as blatant an act of back-stabbing as Fleet Street has seen since Sweeney Todd set up shop there . |
| 8 | The line was closed for about half an hour while firemen dealt with the blaze . |
| 9 | Perhaps Webern was aiming at just such a lack of definition , and certainly many composers have been attracted by this very quality , as well as by his intellectualism , over the last thirty years . |
| 10 | It is unlikely that Gloucester needed Hastings to prod him into action , although if Mancini is even partially correct it would be significant that the duke 's view of events in London was coming from so biased a source . |
| 11 | It is unlikely that Gloucester needed Hastings to prod him into action , although if Mancini is even partially correct it would be significant that the duke 's view of events in London was coming from so biased a source . |
| 12 | For example , the massive recession between 1979 and 1981 was caused by too severe a financial squeeze . |
| 13 | He was gone for about half an hour and I do n't think any of us even suspected that there was something amiss . |
| 14 | The incident happened on the Osmotherley to Thimbleby road which was blocked for about half an hour . |
| 15 | The water course was embanked for around half a mile and is partially stone lined . |
| 16 | By this time CBR was originating at least half a dozen full-orchestra shows to the national network weekly and we were coming into ‘ the golden era ’ of Canadian radio network production . |