Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] another [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Does my right hon. Friend accept that the sort of project to which he just referred is another example of where a national lottery could be of great assistance ?
2 There 'd been another quake at 4am , a 6.5 shock .
3 Like us , he reckoned that there 'd been another man there .
4 Well out of order , the thing is if that 'd been , if that 'd been another troop trying to do it to him , there would of been , there would of been shit
5 In those days too , there 'd been another festival a month or so later , called ban chho āi , the leaving of the forest .
6 Each day the Applecross café was completely full , each person whether fat or thin , ordered a three course meal , breakfast , lunch or tea , and each pill swallowed was another cake sold .
7 Every little noise we thought was another assault wave of killer mice .
8 All they felt was another thump as the lorry bounced gently off the far side of the road and down the lane that ran towards the railway .
9 Yeah , the got to actually change the starter motor erm I mean on the A D fifties and the two litre they I would sort of , its only a hundred and fifty cc , but the next biggest thing they did was stopping er , a sixteen hundred so quite a lot of those , but nine times out of ten all they did was another part , so
10 Even as she said it she recalled the growing doubts and disgust which had been another spur driving her to accept Clive 's invitation .
11 ‘ You will be Church of England , ’ said Willie Hamilton , as though Paul had been another species .
12 There had been another name : Lee .
13 It was a song or a poem — I do n't know which but to my knowledge it has never been published — which was called ‘ Beautiful Angie ’ , and I clicked immediately and realised there had been another woman about the house .
14 If the historians were to be believed , there had been another Empire once , on long-vanished Terra .
15 Then there had been another science during which she took periodical gulps of her tea and the sleeping baby stirred and gave small pig-like grunts .
16 Half a universe away there had been another tunic cuff , the gold braid scorched and burned so that its imprint was fused on to the skin of his arm .
17 The tree had been another meeting place of their childhood , and she knew the flaky bark and cracked pavement by heart .
18 His evasion of her sensible scheme for his comfort had been another repulse .
19 There had been another ace , this time hit even more courageously with a second serve , to prevent Sampras breaking back to 4–5 in the third set .
20 There had been another manner of kindness between them , beneficent to both .
21 Andréew Fisher had been another contemporary from Sydney and an ability to write , a law degree , and a background in student papers and films made him a choice to handle much of the business side .
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