Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | P. Yeah Reese ( Simpson ) , Monty Nolder , Mouse , Bryan Pennington , Jeff Phillips and Jason Parks were over here a short while back and we went up to meet them and skate at Bury . |
| 2 | None the less they were at once a part and a symptom of a great expansion of European wealth . |
| 3 | But the same evidence could have led to a theory celebrating the system which , by laying down norms , establishing disciplines and , most important of all , providing scripts that , while not always particularly imaginative , were at least a sound basis to work from , enabled these directors to realize their individual vision . |
| 4 | There are perhaps 36 skulls in all and there were at least a million Armenian dead . |
| 5 | Official figures are not available on the number of pickets injured , but there were at least a couple of fatalities and it is the opinion of some observers that , in the major conflicts of the dispute , casualties amongst the pickets greatly exceeded those of the police ( Wallington , 1985 : 149 ) . |
| 6 | There were at least a dozen big-wave specialists on the North Shore who , if the Eddie Aikau were actually to be held , could reasonably expect to make a small fortune . |
| 7 | The footsteps were getting nearer and from the sound of it there were at least a dozen men . |
| 8 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 9 | Fearful anticipation had proved somewhat worse than the event , and most Viennese were coming round to the opinion that , whatever the failings of Napoleon 's men , they were at least an improvement upon the Hapsburgs ' Russian allies , whom everyone loathed . |
| 10 | Windmills , which had begun to come into existence during the 16th century were by now a common sight throughout the Lothians . |
| 11 | But London was for ever a sensitive place in the eyes of the English kings , watched with jealous eyes from the White Tower , built by William I at the south-east comer of its defences — and from further off in the great royal palace of Westminster . |
| 12 | His second great contribution was the functional method in anthropology , which despite its defects was for long a valuable associational mode of approach to the study of human behaviour and social institutions . |
| 13 | One important direction of expansion was southward into the Altai-Sayan mountain region on the border of Mongolia , where the Russian town of Kuznetsk was for long an outpost threatened from west , south and east by the ‘ White Kalmyksn ( Teleuts and other Altaian tribes ) , the Oirats or western Mongols , and the Chinese . |
| 14 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 15 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
| 16 | The racing was of quite a high standard . |
| 17 | Eventually , when he was persuaded to pose with some part of the violinist 's equipment , it was with just a bow . |
| 18 | When he finally got around to writing to Jardine on 9 September , it was with only a cursory description of his achievements . |
| 19 | It was with almost a certain sense of relief that Delvert returned to his regiment . |
| 20 | Everyone was in rather a hurry and I am always bad at catching people 's names . |
| 21 | Obviously I should have provided more text than I did , but I suppose I was in rather a hurry . |
| 22 | in case you did n't notice I was in rather a little bit of a mood on Friday ! |
| 23 | You could n't cut them that day cos they were hot , you see , the day you killed them the , cos father was a rare man he , when we got , we got two fridges , we used to kill a week in hand , you see , one lot was in one fridge , that was in there a week before we touched it yeah . |
| 24 | ‘ I know , but she phoned for her results — she was surprised to get me , she seemed to have hoped you 'd be waiting by the phone — and when I told them you 'd gone , her mother took the phone and was in quite a tizz and had a word with Mr Fry and then said they 'd get the next plane home . |
| 25 | Even this was in quite a congested area and from 25 October 1944 , the cars carried on , out of service to the Coombe Road crossover and reversed there . |
| 26 | While she — she was in quite a bargaining position . |
| 27 | Jacqui was in quite a state . |
| 28 | He took her arm firmly and Jenna was in quite a dilemma . |
| 29 | ‘ He went upstairs to see some rat holes … they certainly were enormous — and discovered that the room in which the food of the Gods was mixed … was in quite a disgraceful order . ’ |
| 30 | and it was in quite a big space , I could off got in behind him and then changed if I 'd reversed in but when I saw this other chap sat in his car and then he indicated he wanted to pull out , so I let him go |