Example sentences of "was another [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And here on his desk , just under his hand , was another message from Jean to bear out this thought : Chief Inspector Salter is very anxious to see you . |
| 2 | Dr Barnardo 's was another charity she took on at about the same time ; this charity has left its old orphanage image behind , and the Princess feels her connections with it have been fruitful . |
| 3 | There was another noise later , but he 's unable to specify when . |
| 4 | Now there was another noise — a police siren screamed into the car park and in a minute there were people everywhere , rushing out of the shop and crowding round the crumpled car . |
| 5 | Her garden was another delight . |
| 6 | Andy Mason , of Newcastle A.C. , who is ranked in the UK decathlon list , looked in good form as he won the senior men 's 400 metres and 110 metres hurdles , and Tim Conners ( Ipswich Harriers ) was another runner to shine when he won the junior men 's 1500 metres . |
| 7 | we 'd never , like I mean , I can remember in Plymouth dad saying when we get there , erm we 'll buy a television , we 'll have a television and we did n't know what he was talking about and he said it 's a wireless with pictures , you know , and our minds were boggling we just could n't understand it , and then of course that was another bit of bribery got us to come . |
| 8 | And of course , there was another bit |
| 9 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 10 | William Belshaw was another founder member of the Party who has recently left . |
| 11 | And when there was another friend who was still over here at that time . |
| 12 | That evening there was another line-up , when , as a result of the medical tests , four more people were turned away , including the Spaniard Alex had kicked , who had been found to be suffering from bronchitis . |
| 13 | There was another sister who died , I learnt later . |
| 14 | Over at Hill Gill Farm there was another lady who had musical talent — Mrs Annie Bainbridge . |
| 15 | But there was another lady there talking about taking Tamazapam as a drug of abuse and tha , that 's the difficulty . |
| 16 | one , yes , erm , was another lady and child , taking beeline for birthday cake , you know , they went out the same checkout as I did |
| 17 | It was another kind of January , a January of sudden snow storms and hard frosts at the end of the month , when a rabble of Catholic Jacobite clansmen under the nominal control of John Erskine , Earl of Mar , came to burn the protestant villages of Dunning , Muthill , Blackford , Auchterarder and Crieff . |
| 18 | As well as the automatic reflex of the landed gentry , there was another kind of hostility to archaeologists , a well-deserved dislike for their abrupt methods of studying ancient burial-mounds by hacking rough holes in search of grave goods or skulls to anthropologise . |
| 19 | A land lease was another kind of commercial favour which recurs , and this too could form a useful and persuasive means of keeping a voter 's loyalty , as in the attempt to augment the Argyll interest in the burgh of Stirling in 1756 by giving a tack of land in Argyllshire to Robert Campbell , a brother of the laird of Barcaldine , who was one of the merchants of the town . |
| 20 | In the Nineties , it goes without saying , it was another England — de-industrialized , post-industrial , an England whose representatives were , by and large , strangers to the dingy side-streets and the scurrying wind — who had gathered under a rotunda at the National Portrait Gallery to watch a portrait of one of the heroes of ‘ 66 and many people 's idea of the Greatest Living Englishman , Bobby Charlton , being unveiled . |
| 21 | He heard her whistling to the radio beyond the half-closed door of what he presumed was her bedroom , and there was another door that could have led to the living-room . |
| 22 | There was another door and I could see a smaller room , next to the office . |
| 23 | There was another door behind them , next to an old , faded print that was rotten with damp beneath its mould-spattered glass . |
| 24 | In the end we arrived at another plastic wall where there was another door . |
| 25 | At the end of the tunnel was another door . |
| 26 | To the right was another door ; beside this one stood a uniformed man in what looked like a Securicor outfit . |
| 27 | In the centre of the lobby was another door and , moving forward , Fabia stepped through the doorway and into a comfortably furnished large sitting-room . |
| 28 | For the first time since his arrival , Wexford remembered that there was another child , a mongol , confined somewhere in an institution . |
| 29 | There was another child , too , a girl , but at some fancy Protestant school up in Dublin , hardly ever seen around the place here . |
| 30 | But what it implies is that Ratner was another child of the Thatcherite philosophy . |