Example sentences of "[verb] were [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst times I 've ever endured were with a tax-dodger in Castletown . |
| 2 | The recommendations finally made were of a highly practical nature , but they established a tradition of careful selection which was easily glamorized in both the public and the official mind . |
| 3 | Species whose populations decreased were from a variety of habitats including open fields and farmland ( Skylark and Yellowhammer ) , ponds ( Moorhen ) , scrub ( Whitethroat ) , wetlands ( Sedge Warbler ) , woodlands ( Stock Dove ) , aerial feeders ( Swallow and House Martin ) and many generalists particularly at home in gardens ( Wren , Dunnock , Robin , Blackbird and Song Thrush ) . |
| 4 | Although units shipped were at a record high , last year 's drastic price-cutting was much in evidence . |
| 5 | Ten of the twenty four who died were in a block of three storey flats ; children were among them , their bodies found in a nearby field . |
| 6 | The problems associated with the development of the British atomic bomb for the V-bombers to carry were of a different order of magnitude . |
| 7 | However , in spite of having continually plundered Arabia through the centuries and taken thousands of its best horses , by the beginning of this century few of their descendants remained and those that did were in a very sorry state of deterioration . |
| 8 | They were still interested in patterns rather than processes , although the patterns they were now discussing were of a kind that Darwin would be able to explain . |
| 9 | The concentrations of vitamin D chosen were in a similar range to previous studies , and the lowest dose of 1,25 ( OH ) 2 D 3 is probably within the human physiological range . |
| 10 | see were on a bit of a |
| 11 | I advised , my opinion reinforced by Dennis Lloyd , that there was plainly a breach of copyright , since the reports published were to a substantial extent verbatim accounts of the meetings reproduced from the minutes , the copyright of which belonged to the National Executive , and that a judicial remedy should be sought as soon as possible . |