Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slides were examined immediately with an Orthomat microscope equipped with a Leitz Wetzlar fluorescence light source for epifluorescence . |
| 2 | He had barely slept for days and his white face was dominated by his broad , dark eyebrows , which were locked together in an expression suggesting both grief and incomprehension . |
| 3 | We were seated downstairs at an inglenook table , ideal for lovers but a bit isolated from the humanity of the dining-room which hummed with mix of city and creative folk sharing confidences about God and Mammon . |
| 4 | We drove off to another barracks in Lille where we were taken individually into an office occupied by a portly Major ; he handed each of us a pile of papers and we were told to sign each one at the bottom . |
| 5 | In some , districts were headed jointly by an engineer and a commercial manager ( on the argument that there were essentially two different functions : system engineering , and sales and contracting ) ; in others each district had only one manager ( usually an engineer ) . |
| 6 | Military privilege was undefined ; civilians did not know what an officer was entitled to , what they could safely refuse , what belonged to the armed forces , and what claims were backed only by an officer 's pretensions . |
| 7 | The EDC was treated almost as an afterthought . |
| 8 | Even when a small office was given almost as an act of charity , there would usually be a political motive in the background . |
| 9 | Later , after she was caught red-handed in an orgy with nine lovers in her Red Fort harem apartments , Aurangzeb arranged for his sister to be discreetly poisoned . |
| 10 | Often a would-be escapee , whose one foot was on the express path and whose other was still on the slower acceleration strip , was whirled aside in an eddy and sucked underfoot . |
| 11 | The ebullience with which Nizan highlighted the disenchantment of Hitler 's own petty bourgeois supporters confronted by impending economic ruin , the logical outcome of a Nazi political dictatorship , was tempered only by an awareness that such economic ruin might ultimately only be avoided by a massive rearmament programme and a policy of fascist colonial expansion that would seriously undermine international security . |
| 12 | A 64-YEAR-OLD man was injured yesterday in an explosion at his home at Skylaw Terrace , Forth , Lanarkshire . |
| 13 | The Princess Royal was turned away from an entrance at Royal Ascot today when the gateman failed to recognise her . |
| 14 | This notion was taken up in the model proposed by Pearce and Hall ( 1980 ) ( and developed by Hall and Pearce ( 1982 ) , and by Pearce , Kaye , and Hall ( 1982 ) ) , which was presented originally as an account of classical conditioning . |
| 15 | The 47-year-old businesswoman , of Crowthorne , Berkshire , a former air hostess who flew with the Queen , was stabbed repeatedly with an eight-inch carving or butcher 's knife while loading shopping into her car near the station . |
| 16 | In the worst case , a black student standing at the bus stop with his pregnant girlfriend was shot twice with an air gun . |
| 17 | The island was shaped rather like an anchor . |
| 18 | You know it was shaped just like an egg . |
| 19 | The G17 ( Gastrin I Human ; Sigma , Poole , Dorset , UK ) made up in 0.15M saline containing 1% albumin was infused continuously by an infusion pump ( Vickers Medical , Basingstoke , Hants , UK ) at doses of 0 , 11 , 33 , 100 , and 300 pmol/kg/h , each for a 30 minute period . |
| 20 | A CHEMICAL alert was sparked yesterday after an acid leak at Bank Quay Railway Station , Warrington . |
| 21 | At Central Johnstone 's increasingly autocratic manner began to anger some of his staff , among them Rodrigo Moynihan who , like Minton , was drawn away by an invitation from the Royal College of Art . |
| 22 | The word ‘ plague ’ was used loosely in an era when medical knowledge was rudimentary . |
| 23 | However , the date of the elections was postponed twice in an attempt to increase the number of nominated candidates . |
| 24 | This was interpreted locally as an endorsement of the plans of President Alberto Keinya Fujimori to return the country to formal democratic rule following his army-backed presidential coup on April 5 [ see pp. 38846-47 ] . |
| 25 | Jaq was raised thereafter as an orphan in a mission school . |
| 26 | The district judge was undoubtedly aware of it , since it features in his lengthy rehearsal of the arguments , but he did not refer to it when he came to give reasons for his ruling , which was based exclusively on an examination of the merits . |
| 27 | They can also create audiences for books which before had only a slight following , and sometimes the making of a film leads to success for the author of the book on which the film was based simply as an author . |
| 28 | AZT was approved in the United States in 1987 for use after symptoms of AIDS have appeared , after a controlled trial was brought prematurely to an end when it emerged that the treated group was doing better than the placebo groups . |
| 29 | Dao Van Lat studied his naked body in the long mirror and was seized afresh with an exhilaration of awe . |
| 30 | According to Hesiod the age of idle luxury was followed successively by an age of heroes , a silver age , an age of bronze , and finally by the present iron age . |