Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [adv] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the animals were certainly in for a few surprises as our team of ten raced by wearing bright yellow ‘ Wimpey Worldwide ’ T-shirts and hard hats . |
| 2 | A growing proportion of politically active workers were no longer without a country , as the Communist Manifesto had proclaimed . |
| 3 | A study published by the National Association of Citizens ' Advice Bureaux revealed that 80 per cent of the claimants seen by the bureaux were worse off as a consequence of the new system . |
| 4 | Except in the Central Province , Europeans were almost always in a minority . |
| 5 | The table also makes it clear that older publications were not necessarily in a significantly greater state of disrepair than more recent items . |
| 6 | In this state of affairs , these major interests were no longer in a position of having to simply press in on government from the outside . |
| 7 | There are records showing weavers , a tucker and a silk weaver in Cheltenham in 1608 , although operations were almost certainly on a modest scale . |
| 8 | By the time the Canadians were safely back in a British port , the ship had sailed 7,000 miles ( 13,000km ) on the round trip . |
| 9 | Sales of network telecommunications products increased $76m to $1,750m , and business from communications products and systems were about even with a year ago . |
| 10 | because their husbands have made these settlements , often at very emotional times when the women were not really in a position to really make sure they |
| 11 | If Max was there when Dedo arrived the chances were not altogether against a peaceful conversazione and the witty exit of Modigliani to his own atelier close by … |
| 12 | The others were there already in a circle round the kitchen table , munching their way through slices of wholemeal bread and thick collops of bacon . |
| 13 | They were badly caught out by Wednesday night 's opinion poll results , which suggested the Tories were still in with a chance . |
| 14 | In addition , the number of β-galactosidase staining positive cells was also consistently above a few per cent of cells for the serum starved cells . |