Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this connection we may even talk of rules of language , as if a linguistic practice were like a game . |
| 2 | Tranmere were on a roll and , to be fair , there are not many First Division sides that can stop them at their best . |
| 3 | The years of partnership were at an end . |
| 4 | Disillusioned with the ministry before he had even entered it , Vincent now said damningly that to trade in religion was on a par with trading in art or tulip bulbs . |
| 5 | She 's married to an Englishman ; they live in Norwich , ’ he explained quietly , and then his eyes lowered momentarily to her mouth , and that one glance was like a caress . |
| 6 | Discipline in the Jewish Brigade was of a sort unknown in any conventional army : |
| 7 | By the end of the 1970s the American electorate was in a fluid , dealigned state with parties no longer able to provide the degree of structure that they had contributed in the past . |
| 8 | Water Gypsy was in a lock . |
| 9 | Hills v. Ellis the defendant was outside a football match where he witnessed a policeman arresting a person whom he believed to be faultless . |
| 10 | In Gladstone Williams the defendant was on a bus when he witnessed what lie believed to be an attack by a large man on another , smaller youth . |
| 11 | The Chief Justice 's reference to the lack of an equal footing was , in my view , to the fact that the defendant was in a position to force the plaintiff to comply with the lawful demand if he wished to obtain the necessary licence to continue to trade , and not simply to the fact that the defendant held an official position whereas the plaintiff did not . |
| 12 | This was a clear case where the defendant was in a position to and did in fact exert duress to require payment of the sum unlawfully claimed . |
| 13 | Its worst loss of nerve was over a Channel 4 programme MI5 's Official Secrets in which Cathy Massiter , a former MI5 case officer responsible for surveillance of the peace movement , alleged that her investigations into CND had been passed on to government ministers for party-political use . |
| 14 | Secondly , he must be ‘ absolutely assured that the High Command was in a position to furnish us with the necessary men and material for the continuance of the offensive , and that not by driblets , but on a large scale ’ Thirdly , the campaign should be halted the moment ‘ we ourselves were losing more heavily and becoming exhausted more rapidly than the enemy ’ . |
| 15 | All that was needed for defeat was for a couple of Liberal Democrats to switch sides . |
| 16 | Tess was in a dream as she skimmed . |
| 17 | The workroom was in a mess . |
| 18 | One dead soldier was in a sitting position , his back against a wall , his head leaning backwards with the eyes staring and mouth hanging open , his blonde hair matted and covered with blood . |
| 19 | Sandy tried to think of something to say , something that would explain how she felt ; but the image that formed in her mind was of a punchbowl brimming with vomit , and she knew instantly that she was about to do likewise . |
| 20 | His mind was in a fog . |
| 21 | His mind was in a whirl and he was worried . |
| 22 | Grant 's mind was in a whirl as he sought desperately for a way out . |
| 23 | Laura 's mind was in a whirl as she gazed at him silently for a moment . |
| 24 | Ecstatic scenes greeted Gordon Richards as Pinza was led to the unsaddling enclosure , and although to some he seemed oddly unmoved , he wrote subsequently that ‘ my mind was in a turmoil , and my brain perhaps a little numbed … the reception which the crowd gave me was something out of this world . ’ |
| 25 | My mind was in a turmoil , and my brain perhaps a little numbed . |
| 26 | Yanto 's mind was in a turmoil when he reached home that night . |
| 27 | The papers lay there unread , however , because her mind was in a turmoil . |
| 28 | It was as if the idea of God in the mind was like a shadow thrown on a wall . |
| 29 | A Sechem 's mind was like a sponge , soaking up information until a connection could be made between apparently unrelated areas of scientific fact . |
| 30 | The tailored long-sleeved calf-length black coat with tight wristbands and single-button or tape fastenings at the neck was in a decline , as in came the fashionable three-quarter length cloak — of black , certainly , but heavily embroidered and trimmed with braid . |