Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many more parents became governors , governing bodies changed in their size and balance of membership and they were given at least a formal opportunity to exercise greater control over the conduct of a school . |
| 2 | The survey also notes that : ‘ Compensation for temporary travel and living costs , transportation of personal and household effects and disturbance allowances were given by only a minority of companies ’ . |
| 3 | Again , there was a slight hiccup when the entire Leyland Class 155 fleet were withdrawn for almost a year with door troubles ; they opened while the train was running . |
| 4 | In 1907 local cooperative branches were petitioned to forward a resolution to congress in support of the women 's franchise . |
| 5 | At Peking we were met by quite a delegation of people , and sat down at the airport for some formal introductions and speeches . |
| 6 | Autoradiographs of bleomycin cleavage were scanned with either a Joyce Loebl Chromoscan III or a Hoefer GS300 microdensitometer . |
| 7 | Last time out , all three were separated by only a couple of thousand votes . |
| 8 | But although the educational services were supplied to only a few inmates , several of these were undertaking advanced work : three had completed BAs over the past few years , another an MA , and nine were embarking upon university degrees by correspondence . |
| 9 | The Adventurers were also to ensure that all levels were driven with only a slight gradient … " just sufficient to drain out the water " . |
| 10 | Clerical and administrative backup were provided at only a modest level . |
| 11 | Owain Williams led a Bridgend drive from a line-out and when Newport were penalised for off-side a swiftly-taken tapped penalty and deft passing gave Gareth Thomas the space to round his man and score wide out . |
| 12 | Something had happened to them — they were charged for just a while into being better than they were . |
| 13 | The large wartime backlog of investment left considerable scope for economies in new investment , as in the first ten years the length of distribution mains in service were extended by nearly a third . |
| 14 | The seven connections surveyed above 11.2 , 1.3 ) were stated by both a conditional and its contrapositive . |
| 15 | Both were recorded within only a week of each other ! |
| 16 | When the 1983 demonstration arrived outside the CEGB , it was witnessed by just a handful of press : foreign TV , the Guardian , the Morning Star , and local radio . |
| 17 | The activity was sustained for quite a long time by pupils who , according to their label , have difficulty sustaining anything . |
| 18 | The speaker who complained at the burden on small businesses was clapped by just a handful . |
| 19 | Not too long ago , property ownership was limited to just a minority — but today nearly two thirds of people in England and Wales live in their own homes , more than in many other countries . |
| 20 | In its first annual report , it pointed to the difficulties in some areas particularly in the south-east and the west midlands where the available land was limited to only a few years ' supply . |
| 21 | Lowell Bayles paid $500 for the chance to fly the aircraft and it was completed with only a week to go to the National Air Races at Cleveland . |
| 22 | Day schooling was received by only a minority of children from the labouring classes , in some parishes a very tiny one . |
| 23 | The next year she was referred to both a chest physician and a cardiologist but no further investigations were done . |
| 24 | PRESS GANG ( produced by Richmond Films for Central Television ) was honoured with both a Royal Television Society Award and a British Academy Award in 1991 . |
| 25 | The effect that evening was that it hurt , especially as my supper was delayed for over an hour by blocked jets . |
| 26 | NEW ZEALAND , whose tour of Sri Lanka was delayed by nearly a week and then rescheduled after a bomb blast near their hotel , yesterday lost their opening game by 17 runs in Matara . |
| 27 | The seizure of Oslo was delayed by only a few hours , just long enough for the king , his ministers and most of parliament — the collective personification of constitutional legitimacy — to evade capture . |
| 28 | The shock wave was delayed by only a few more seconds , and then it rolled over them like a small hurricane . |
| 29 | But the test was sat by only a handful of pupils because of a boycott by teaching unions . |
| 30 | A long-standing illness , disability or infirmity was reported by almost a quarter . |