Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English were in for a shock . |
| 2 | Some were up to an inch wide and ten or eleven inches long . |
| 3 | Some were only on a month 's loan . |
| 4 | The the this was just at a just a custom you know . |
| 5 | We opposed various stages of the Bill , regretting the fact that it did not cover consumer safety ; but , on Third Reading , I committed our party at the Dispatch Box — this was just before an election — to honouring the existence of the Office of Fair Trading and the appointment of John Methven as director general . |
| 6 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 7 | This was largely as a consequence of his undoubted materialism , according to which all that exists is matter in motion . |
| 8 | This was largely as a result of Eliot 's own initiative ; and what we knew of it was derived from the works of Jacques Maritain , which were largely the source , I suspect , of Eliot 's own knowledge . |
| 9 | There had been some war damage but this was not on a scale which lent itself to large-scale redevelopment . |
| 10 | This was not on a massive scale , for the area was sparsely populated in the past , and remains thinly populated even today . |
| 11 | ‘ This was not without a significant public response from animal welfare groups and pigeon fanciers ' organisations in the area . |
| 12 | She rarely smiled but this was not through a lack of good nature : her responsibilities had given her a serious expression . |
| 13 | This was partly as a result of inherited policies , but was also because of the council 's desire ‘ to be seen to be doing something ’ to support its traditional political base of the skilled manual working class . |
| 14 | This was partly as a safety measure , but also as a result of a campaign by local councillors , who have been told about several near misses at Ruswarp . |
| 15 | This was more like a pause in the struggle . |
| 16 | But this was only for a second . |
| 17 | Eventually , West Germany and the Benelux states ratified the treaty early in 1954 , though in the former this was only after a prolonged political battle in which the Social Democrat Party took its opposition to the EDC all the way to the country 's supreme court . |
| 18 | And this was out of a you know er I mean they were only what Oh could n't be more than about six eight people working in the Well not actually fitters but er you know , they were involved within the shop sort of thing . |
| 19 | Well they 've got the depot at Rochdale which services up to Blackpool and this was out on a limb . |
| 20 | This was so despite a provision in the Articles of the company defining " the board " as including " any committee authorised by the board to act on its behalf " . |
| 21 | ‘ This was all as a full-time member of staff . |
| 22 | She was under a duty to use the money to pay the gas bills ( cf. Hall , where the accused was not under a duty to use that money for that holiday ) . |
| 23 | Its available agricultural land , the Tenantry Laines spread out along the downland valleys , was largely in the form of scattered individual strips and , although attempts were made to consolidate holdings in the 1780s , these were still on a small scale . |
| 24 | Although his trip to America in 1946 was partly of a business nature , that business could be combined with pleasure in meeting his " authors " , such as Auden and Djuna Barnes . |
| 25 | Mrs Gotobed was downstairs in a room Carrie had not been into before ; a light , pretty drawing-room , all gilt chairs and mirrors . |
| 26 | Although there had been a 6 per cent swing from ‘ right ’ to ‘ left ’ between the two elections the former were still in a clear majority . |
| 27 | Now it seemed to me that one thousand six hundred was initially as a result of survey work or shall we say investigation into the housing waiting list carried out by the York housing department , and I have to say that I have a certain respect for the York housing department , and they have a certain reasonable and good reputation within the region as a housing department , and so there seems to me that there is a gr a there is a potential to underestimate er the the affordable requirement that 's been put to you , another point erm I 'd just like perhaps to seek a little clarification from Mr Curtis , was was unfortunately I was looking something else up or my attention was diverted when he gave some figures for Ryedale and Selby , I think he said , and I 'll happily stand corrected on this , that if you take away the York requirement figure from his ten thousand four hundred for Greater York , then the remainder he would apportion to Selby and Ryedale , so that Selby got four thousand two hundred , sorry , so that Ryedale got four thousand two hundred and Selby got one thousand seven hundred , erm that does n't add up to ten thousand four hundred and I I I in total , and I I wondered where the rest was coming from , if I the point correctly . |
| 28 | Quiet , steady and composed , Gavin was an ideal partner for skipper Jim Cannon at the heart of the Palace defence and , if the early '80s were a time when our back four was often under a lot of pressure , Gavin played his part in Palace 's revival at the end of the decade although , in spite of skippering our successful 1988–89 side for a few matches mid-season , he incurred yet another injury and was prevented from playing in all but the final three games . |
| 29 | That was why as a child I often had anxiety dreams about her . |
| 30 | Still got an hole here , that was just with a pellet gun that was . |