Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were the banker of the Condor missile development on which Argentina co-operated , with the further expertise of Egyptian engineers . |
| 2 | In Liverpool , all seafarers — seamen , firemen , donkeymen , greasers and similar grades who were the backbone of the NSFU and catering staff and shore gangs who were joining Cotter 's union — received 105 a week increase , abolition of the medical examination and the right to wear the button of the appropriate recognised union . |
| 3 | Sergeants were the backbone of the police . |
| 4 | Gerard Robson , a member of the Falkland Islands ' Legislative Council , was quoted in the Financial Times of Feb. 16 as stating that Falkland Islanders would not be " overjoyed " by the Madrid agreement but recognized that matters of defence and foreign affairs were the responsibility of the UK government . |
| 5 | As Rex ( 1988 , p58 ) has pointed out , the 1977 White Paper ‘ A Policy for the Inner Cities ’ stated that it was not concerned with the problems of Black communities as these were the responsibility of the Home Office and the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 6 | Decisions on spending were the responsibility of the head and governors in consultation with a school finance committee of staff and governors . |
| 7 | Payroll details were the responsibility of the site wages offices or the salaries department at Euston Road , while personnel information was the responsibility of the site personnel records departments . |
| 8 | At its height the ‘ feudal ’ system meant that Sussex could muster over 300 fully equipped mounted men , 84½ of whom were the responsibility of the Earls of Arundel and another 60 of the de Warennes ; the bishop of Chichester had to find four . |
| 9 | Preventive activities and communicable diseases were the responsibility of the health minister and state health secretariats , which ran health centres , public health laboratories , and hospitals specialising in transmissible diseases . |
| 10 | To protect itself , Company A , at the instigation of Company B , its parent company , falsely asserted that these accounts were the responsibility of the plaintiffs and wrongfully seized certain metal warrants belonging to the plaintiffs . |
| 11 | For an unrepentant Hegel , called back to Earth and observing that the two most conspicuous antinomies were the opposed superpowers , might well persist in preferring his perception that nation-states were the vehicle of the dialectic . |
| 12 | ‘ the rights to which he would be entitled if he were the holder of the share , except that he shall not , before being registered as the holder of the share , be entitled in respect of it to attend or vote at any general meeting of the company or at a separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the company . ’ |
| 13 | The centres , which will eventually be opened throughout the country , were the idea of the Princess herself . |
| 14 | The branches with their silver-green leaves spread out to meet one another , intertwined , and cast rows of delicate tendrils around the pillars which were the support for the gallery above . |
| 15 | The only restrictions to growth were the topography of the site and the West Façade . |
| 16 | In the end they found five such factors , of which they felt the most important were the increase in the number of high-status jobs in industrial societies , and the increasing importance attached to qualifications rather than family connections when people were being promoted to higher job levels . |
| 17 | The great events of his administration were the return to the gold standard , the Treaty of Locarno , the General Strike , the Imperial Conference of 1926 which led on to the Statute of Westminster , and the measures originating in the Ministry of Health for the reform of local government and the extension of social security . |
| 18 | The two surprises of the night were the soundtrack from the Walt Disney animated movie , Beauty and the Beast and the country music sensation , Billy Ray Cyrus , whose Achy Breaky Heart caused a dance craze . |
| 19 | George Buchanan also contends that it is the people who are the ultimate source of the laws : " the Law is more powerful than the King , and the People more powerful than the Law " for " the People is as it were the Parent of the Law , certainly the Author thereof . " |
| 20 | The trappers or trappings were the breeching of the cart-harness . |
| 21 | The factors were the scale of the burglary , the evident planning , the speed at which the goods arrived and the quantity of goods . |
| 22 | At the same time the huge increases in unemployment , which were the corollary of the expenditure cuts and non-interventionist market-oriented economic policy , undermined the resistance and the strength of the unions . |
| 23 | Compared to these regions the mountains and plains of central Spain were the despair of the traveller : ‘ the barest and most melancholy I ever beheld ’ . |
| 24 | Unconfirmed reports said that other issues discussed and left unresolved were the question of the sale of Chinese missiles to Pakistan and Indian misgivings about recent proposals for a South Asian nuclear-free zone . |
| 25 | Er were the name of the gentry who were living in in in the place . |
| 26 | By the Adoption Act 1958 , property of adopter and adoptee is to devolve in all respects as if the adoptee were the child of the adopter , born in lawful wedlock . |
| 27 | Finally , ‘ Christendom ’ itself has betrayed Jesus by domesticating him as if he were the possession of the church , and by making faith the acceptance of formulae and practices hallowed by the authority of the past . |
| 28 | The balmy evenings were the compensation for the unpleasantness of the day . |
| 29 | While the Government have to admit that , after pursuit of the policy of privatisation for 12 years , substantial problems have arisen that must be corrected , the best that they can propose is that Ofwat , Ofgas and Oftel should be raised to the standard of OFFER , the Office of Electricity Regulation , as if OFFER were the champion of the consumer against the might of near-monopoly power . |
| 30 | The two main issues in the Miyagi contest were the state of the country 's economy , and the current spate of scandals surrounding the Miyazawa government . |