Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly a mechanism was provided by which the brain ( which may or may not be considered in some way related to the mind ) could intrude on the elementary processes of message reception and transmission . |
| 2 | Suddenly a searchlight was blazing in their eyes . |
| 3 | A railway company came to Wall 's aid and before long a trial was held under floodlit conditions . |
| 4 | It was decided to recall Blake to London in a manner that would not arouse his suspicions so a message was sent to Nicholas Elliott , chief of MI6 in Beirut , who got in touch with Blake and said that London would like to discuss a chance of promotion and a new job with him . |
| 5 | General Monk , in the spring of 1660 , led a bloodless coup and declared that Charles II should become King , so a warship was sent to Holland to fetch him back to England , where he arrived before the end of May , aged 30 years , and was received rapturously in London . |
| 6 | It was then discovered that it was impossible to put a solid roof on the stadium , so a compromise was reached in the form of an awning — a ‘ symbolic roof ’ . |
| 7 | So a truce was declared in July 1921 , and negotiations took place between Mr. De Valera — on behalf of Sinn Fein , and the British government , so that by December an agreement was reached to partition Ireland , with six Counties of Ulster remaining with the United Kingdom , with its own Northern Ireland Parliament in Belfast . |
| 8 | So a truce was made with the Spartans ( 451 ) which , as Thucydides describes it ( i.112 ) , need not have been motivated by more than Athens ' commonsense desire to deal with her enemies one by one . |
| 9 | Supplementing the corpus with more recordings of naturally occurring speech would have been very time-consuming , so a questionnaire was designed in order to investigate ( amongst other things ) the possibility of such a constraint operating . |
| 10 | There had not been a meeting of the accident investigation division for fifteen years and there had been a great deal of development in the civil aviation scene in the intervening period , so a meeting was called in Montreal in January and February of that year . |
| 11 | He bargained in his soul with fate , promising to dedicate his life to Imperial service without scruple — if only a life was left to him to dedicate . |
| 12 | During the baseline examinations only a subsample was asked about history of smoking . |
| 13 | Naturally an appeal was made by the McLaren team but the dispute was not resolved for many weeks . |
| 14 | But a neighbour wrote an anonymous letter about them to the DHSS and before long an official was knocking at their door . |
| 15 | Great-Uncle Isaac at Dummah Hill , where Father was living and working , was kin to the brothers so an arrangement was made for him to take over the land . |
| 16 | It was not felt appropriate to raise this as a direct question to the authorities so an application was made to Namibia for an amateur radio licence for a Dxpedition to the Penguins . |
| 17 | So an experiment was performed on a large scale using approximately 500µg of expressed protein . |
| 18 | Normally a list was published at random and took no account of any previous personal arrangements arrived at by crew members . |
| 19 | Thus a cleruchy was imposed on Andros in 450 , perhaps on Euboia too , since tribute from these islands drops after 450 , one sign of a cleruchy : loss of land brought mitigation of tribute . |
| 20 | The main purpose was to pack as much corn as possible into the bay ; but in treading the corn in this way much of it was shaken out of the ear , and thus a start was made on the threshing . |
| 21 | Scarcely a voice was raised in protest . |
| 22 | Another deadly volley of canister and scarcely a man was left on his feet and capable of charging even had he wanted to do so . |
| 23 | Burton was physically falling apart , and finally a doctor was called for . |
| 24 | Hardly a word was exchanged after the first greeting . |
| 25 | They were five people in one small room , and hardly a word was said between them until Gus Hambro had a large brandy under his belt , and was visibly returning into circulation . |
| 26 | Until these fields were enclosed by private agreement or by act of parliament hardly a building was erected beyond the nucleus of the settlement , for every piece of land was precious . |
| 27 | Among the intelligentsia , hardly a voice was raised in its defence , with the exception of a few university teachers of Marxism-Leninism . |
| 28 | On April 16/17 Sugar took her crew on a raid on the marshalling yards at Pilsen in Czechoslovakia , this time a flight of over eight hours duration , but on the return home a diversion was made into Boscombe Down . |
| 29 | Unlike Aunt Kit , who believed it to be a barbaric rite , intolerable between reasonable men and women , Aunt Lilian , the headmistress , simply felt it her duty to point out that a career — any career — would be less easy once a girl was lumbered with a husband and children . |
| 30 | Once a girl was smuggled into the proceedings in her boyfriend 's overcoat . |