Example sentences of "[was/were] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The audience were a comic 's dream and when Dennie came back on stage and whispered ‘ two minutes to count-down ’ I ran off to applause that made me feel like Mike Tyson . |
| 2 | However nervous she may have felt inside , her warm smile and unaffected manner were a photographer 's delight . |
| 3 | And diamonds were a man 's best friend when it came to making it with the opposite sex . |
| 4 | The paper denied the existence of political prisoners in China , and said that human rights were a country 's internal affair . |
| 5 | What were a crocodile 's testicles and alligator 's tail used for ? |
| 6 | Shape your hand as if it were a bird 's foot , fingers apart . |
| 7 | But she was shaking all over , shivering as if it were a winter 's night . |
| 8 | They were a Christian 's duty in the disciplined life of his church . |
| 9 | A tap is turned , a pressure of 120 pounds per square inch applied to the piston , and up goes the end of the coach as easily as though it were a doll 's house . |
| 10 | Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started |
| 11 | Er they were a bit erm er all the C N D group , I 'm saying this now with no disrespect or anything . |
| 12 | because if I might say so disabled people were treated oddly in those days , they are not er , erm people I think were a bit er diffident about making contact with them and erm , a lot of people would n't erm , you know , give you a hand if you were |
| 13 | I think that 's what Tony 's harking back to , the old style when you went and they were a bit er callous . |
| 14 | The parchment was illuminated : an Englishman stood waist-deep in an ocean of scalloped rills , drawing a galleon of far greater tonnage than any ship Kit had ever sailed in as if it were a child 's toy boat ; he was pulling it towards a pair of islands , like pease puddings , smoking from their rounded summits on the pretty dish of the sea , garnished with sea creatures : one had a spiralling tusk and frilly fins , another a crocodile 's saw-toothed snout . |
| 15 | And they used to go and er th odd ones er and they used to go to the houses in the street , there were a chap er down th er that street opposite the er er the every morning . |
| 16 | And when you were a student erm who was paying for your training ? |
| 17 | On top of the crosses were a soldier 's Balmoral and the badge of the Gordon Highlanders . |
| 18 | There were no bother , they just they were a men er a a male carriage cleaner and the women were women . |
| 19 | When at last he came down to Egypt , Joseph showed him all the love and respect that were a father 's due , all the love and respect that Ham had failed so conspicuously to show to Noah . |
| 20 | Stick legs in dirty grey stockings protruded from where the breeches finished and the cracked shoes were a woman 's shape . |
| 21 | The eyes which met his were a stranger 's and Rostov was unable to interpret the expression which he found there . |
| 22 | His point was that films were a director 's medium and he quoted A Hard Day 's Night as a good example of a director working with non-actors . |
| 23 | What Playmates invariably displayed , giving generous measure , were a collector 's pair of breasts . |
| 24 | After all , what were a theorist 's research results worth compared with a lifetime of experience in electricity supply ? |
| 25 | Her laughs were an assassin 's attempts |
| 26 | As Martin Luther King was assassinated , the Russians moved into Czechoslovakia , and Northern Ireland flared up big-time out there in the real world , Captain Mainwaring 's gentle old duffers with one bayonet between them were an avoidnik 's wet dream . |
| 27 | It was a boy 's dream . |
| 28 | After that , any name would do , as long as it was a boy 's name . |
| 29 | As he was , in part , to become a ‘ man 's man ’ so he was a boy 's boy . |
| 30 | The voice behind him surprised Connor ; it was a boy 's voice , with an uncertain crack in it . |