Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Limited liability for companies was not introduced until nearly a century after the outset of England 's industrial revolution . |
| 2 | The BBC 's Children 's Department , Newman felt , was still catering for only a small proportion of the nation 's youngsters : the ordered few for whom parents bought Look & Learn , The Eagle or maybe even Hotspur . |
| 3 | One example is the third-century kiln at Godmanchester , which can be related to a building in Pinfold Lane , while a clay-floored structure at Hacheston was interestingly associated with both a third-century kiln producing grey wares and an iron-smithing furnace . |
| 4 | But she realised with irritation that it was n't followed by either a phone number or an address . |
| 5 | But the body was n't found for over a week . |
| 6 | Membership was never granted to about a third of firms which originally applied . |