Example sentences of "[was/were] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there they were , in their thousands , or it may have been millions , and they were a horrific threat to the survival of humanity on this planet . |
| 2 | Yesterday an FBI agent , Richard Swensen , said the lights , mounted on Sunday night , were a defensive measure to blind the cult members to the whereabouts of the more than 400 law enforcement officers around the compound . |
| 3 | But Muriel writes off these youngsters with their strange clothes and weird hairstyles as if they were a lower kind of creature altogether . |
| 4 | Imagine , because they were a lower grade they 'd meant nothing you see . |
| 5 | Following the talk there were a wide range of questions demonstrating the concern the audience felt for threatened wildlife and the environment . |
| 6 | Anglo-Saxon law recognized that a peasant who prospered became a thegn and the thegns were a wide class including folk who would be called knights and folk who would be leading barons after the Conquest . |
| 7 | Thus it is said ( though still with problems of interpretation ) that the bards were a specific order ranking below the priests and the seers , though composing with them a specific privileged caste . |
| 8 | In an ideal world , it would now be the preferred method of evaluating brain pathology unless there were a specific contraindication for example , the presence of ferro-magnetic clips on intracranial vessels . |
| 9 | As soon as she finds one she paralyses it , using her long sting as though it were a hypodermic syringe loaded with anaesthetic . |
| 10 | They were a friendly family and very helpful when Breeze , seeing them take so much trouble over finding a suitable board , told them what she hoped to do with it . |
| 11 | Rosen shot down most effectively the old fallacy that somehow or other the 1950s , the era of the Grammar Schools and Beacon Readers , were a golden age for children 's books and childhood literacy . |
| 12 | Some of them were a sorry sight ! |
| 13 | In the main they were a semi-educated band with neither trade nor union affiliation , and greedy — the occasional client was brought to financial ruin by undertakers charging over-inflated and extortionate prices for an unnecessary spectacle that few could either afford or understand . |
| 14 | Nobody is yet convinced that he really would be willing to raise interest rates if there were a prolonged run on the pound sometime this year . |
| 15 | The years that followed , until his death in 1929 , were a prolonged process of disillusionment and despair . |
| 16 | I got , a shopping bag , that were a creamy colour with wi A's all over it . |
| 17 | It was , of course , the perfect training for a housewife , even if the house in question were a stately home . |
| 18 | The sand , shingle and shells were a prehistoric beach , preserved somehow over millions of years — and it took a breakdown for me to discover it . |
| 19 | Diana and her friends were a clean-living set — none of them smoked or drank much — and when they went out , it tended to be in a group . |
| 20 | Crosby 's acceleration and close control were a frequent worry to Everton on the right but seven minutes before half-time the winger only seemed to have got past Snodin by fouling him . |
| 21 | From the end of the period of the Kings , public penitential festivals were a frequent necessity . |
| 22 | Often , we would disturb huge salmon , red-dressed for spawning , and I suspect that during the days of the POW camp , salmon were a frequent supplement to meagre wartime rations . |
| 23 | Perhaps his own impatient temperament made this especially essential in his case : I myself fled to the wilderness when it proved no longer possible to live harmoniously with men , who , admittedly , were a frequent obstacle to my inner joy . |
| 24 | And the place smelled too , of hot bodies , hot electrical equipment , and the fumes of whisky ; not surprising that , considering the amount of the stuff they swallowed during the half-hour he had spent in that crowded room full of people who talked to one another in an incomprehensible private language , and at him as though he were a stupid child when they explained how the program would run . |
| 25 | I give you my word … right through me as if I were a bloody ghost . |
| 26 | Thought you were a bloody idiot |
| 27 | and she said er , and I said , I said Dave said you were a bloody fool to go up there , you let mother talk you into going , Terry had a job here , he , alright you had your house , you had your ups and downs , it was a bit small , you persevere with it , I said your kids are nearly going to school all of them , so I said , you do n't need a big house |
| 28 | ‘ You always were a bloody liar , Lambert . |
| 29 | Frau Nordern took the phone again , bellowed ‘ Karl ! ’ several decibels louder than Omi , shook the phone as if it were a recalcitrant child , listened again , then put it down . |
| 30 | The two ceremonies at Poitiers and Limoges were a ritual expression of Aquitaine 's de facto independence from the King of France . |