Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such were only a few of the multitude of his accomplishments . |
| 2 | Over the years ‘ Mods and Rockers ’ , ‘ Hell 's Angels ’ , ‘ Skinheads ’ , ‘ Rude Boys ’ , ‘ Romantics ’ , ‘ Neo-Romantics ’ and ‘ Punks ’ were only a few of the pieces in an ever-changing cultural jig-saw . |
| 3 | These were only a few of the paradoxes of Baldwin 's life and character . |
| 4 | By now there were only a few of them left , grouped like maintenance vehicles around The Fat Controller 's wide-bodied jet of a home . |
| 5 | To follow , thick slices of Tortilla sandwiched between slices of bread spread with the juice of fresh tomatoes and olive oil , steaming hot pans of saffron yellow paella or ‘ trampo ’ a Majorcan salad of pepper , tomato and onion were just a few of the ‘ light ’ meals we dined on . |
| 6 | THEATRE : Bill Kenwright , Alan Bleasdale and John Doyle were just a few of the names who received rave reviews but here 's the top nominated trio . |
| 7 | There were approximately a thousand in each type of provision . |
| 8 | One day there were about a dozen of us there , including Dickie and myself ; I was Prime Minister at the time . |
| 9 | There were quite a few of these old Fenian diehards around , still bitter after all those years about their humiliating defeat , still hating the Catholic Church for its condemnation of their movement . |
| 10 | There were quite a few of them back in the ‘ seventies . |
| 11 | There were over a dozen in all . |
| 12 | In a Labour Monthly article , " The United Front and Revolutionary Unity " , Palme Dutt developed the theme that the United Front created on 17 March 1933 was merely a preliminary to the creation of a new Left party . " |
| 13 | Ruth heard Gran talking to her in the office — which was only a partitioned off slice of the kitchen , so Ruth could hear every word as she stacked the dishwasher . |
| 14 | She could give him a room with a bed , and her asking price for it was only a little above that of Mrs McIntosh , and much less than the inn . |
| 15 | When they got to St-Jean it was only a little past midnight and the cafes were still open . |
| 16 | In any case , it was only a little after twelve . |
| 17 | It was only a little after that , and before the damming had got very much further , that Ligulf said , ‘ Siward ? ’ |
| 18 | She looked at the clock , frustrated to find it was only a little after eleven . |
| 19 | But it was only a temporary in there , like the floor and everything just a , a brown carpet because of Honey |
| 20 | There was one thing that might save the mare , and that was only a 10,000 to I chance . |
| 21 | Thus Indochinese with top marks from the Grandes Écoles in France returned home to serve under Frenchmen with much lower qualifications , or none at all , on a salary which was approximately a fifth of what would be paid to a European doing the same work . |
| 22 | Gundobad had contemplated conversion to catholicism , and Sigismund was already a catholic by 515 , when he founded one of the most prestigious of early medieval monasteries , that of St Maurice at Agaune . |
| 23 | And sometimes if there was just a few of the men maybe two men in the camp , they would come and help with even fencing or or erm build up a dyke or something like that Even drain they would stay for days if they wanted draining the fields , mm it was that . |
| 24 | It was just a few at first , but after a while it got more and more till it 's quite crowded now . |
| 25 | no , no , it was just a bound to be a cos you see , let me explain something to you until you gave evidence today , certainly I did n't and maybe others did n't realize in this court room that what were looking at is that one edition of the brochure which may of had several editions , do you understand ? |
| 26 | Which MP was once a farmhand in The Archers ? |
| 27 | It was also a first for TES . |
| 28 | The £450,000 selling price was nearly a third under its value . |
| 29 | There was about a hundred with thin Martin on the other hand . |
| 30 | Could have done it , too , only when he was about a third of the way through , he was killed in an automobile accident . |