Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I simply thought I should warn you that they were effectively in a garret … |
| 2 | Various offices remained in the gift of the Lord Treasurer and the Chancellor of the Exchequer , but they were mostly of a subordinate kind . |
| 3 | Leonora doubted that biscuits were much of a cure for what ailed her , but she bit into one meekly , deciding that the best policy was to fall in with Penry Vaughan 's wishes whenever possible , to keep the peace . |
| 4 | Even more striking were the elephants that once lived on Malta , and were only about a metre in height . |
| 5 | We were only about a yard from the fairway , but we had trouble finding the ball . |
| 6 | Third , by contrast with a modern bureaucracy , the departments of medieval government were only to a small extent defined by areas in which they worked . |
| 7 | Some were only on a month 's loan . |
| 8 | Six died he were , he were only in a week |
| 9 | I says , do n't tell me , I said , he did the same thing to me the other day , and it were only within a couple of days of each other . |
| 10 | The trio were together for a Christmas in Vienna concert in the city hall . |
| 11 | But the family were together for a tour of Harry 's dormitory , where the new boy — known at Ludgrove as a ‘ squit ’ — will sleep with three pals . |
| 12 | Helvin moved in , and they were together for a decade . |
| 13 | ‘ We were together for a long time but we grew apart and we have both been working hard . ’ |
| 14 | Harbury and Linda Finch were together at a table when she got there . |
| 15 | A few hundred yards further on , though , venerable stone walls sprang up on either side and we were suddenly in a picture-book Cotswold village tucked away out of sight in the ignoble fringes of the city . |
| 16 | ‘ Them upstairs ’ were obviously of an inferior race , and their habits were disgusting , Rose said . |
| 17 | They were obviously in a dark room , but where in space or time was unknown . |
| 18 | A very considerable number of sub-licences which were normally for a period of six to 12 months were granted during the relevant years of assessment and the aggregate profit therefrom during these years amounted to some HK$57m . |
| 19 | Although under-assessment was nowhere more flagrant than among rich Londoners , it was always possible for a fortune to be wiped out by an unsuccessful business venture , as in the case of Alderman Aylmer , draper , who was assessed at £40 net , his debts paid' , when others of this rank were normally worth a thousand or more . |
| 20 | The southerners had longer legs and were generally of a less heavy conformation ; their skin was thicker , their coat less silky and they were slower to mature . |
| 21 | Manes were generally of a benevolent temperament . |
| 22 | They were generally of a mottled colour and looked most unappetising , " Try one Hamish " he invited , I would take one and taste it and then he would say : " What do you make of it ? " |
| 23 | Sh she pays me fifty pounds , she rang me up she were away to a funeral |
| 24 | The pupils carried out the project while some of their year nine colleagues were away on an exchange visit to Germany . |
| 25 | Seaman comments that that presentation Another and concordant view is recorded by Lichtheim : Lichtheim goes on to quote Pease , then Secretary of the Fabian Society , as saying : ‘ We were thus in a position to welcome the formation of working class Socialist societies , but it is certain that they would never have welcomed us ’ ; and to add , perhaps unkindly : ‘ Beatrice Potter — a rich , spoiled , arrogant young woman with more beauty than brains — was determined to have as little as possible to do with the working class . ’ |
| 26 | They were just of a height . |
| 27 | just on a , were just on a general high anyway after the election results . |
| 28 | She nursed his ailments too , and with a needle from a certain yucca picked out the chigoes from his feet , neatly , so as not to burst the sac in which the nits were hatching and release them into his flesh : the insects between his pink and white toes were just like a shrimp 's roe . |
| 29 | So that it would if it were were just like a trough . |
| 30 | All three countries were already in a deep recession last summer , which the war has made worse . |