Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] was the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beside the boat-house a jetty thrust out into the water , and from this a weedy , once-gravelled path led along above the beach to the stone archway which was the garden gate of Taigh na Tuir . |
| 2 | Well we 'll start off at the top of Road and on the one side there was the furniture people they used to make furniture . |
| 3 | from work as a somebody and at home I was the loo cleaner . |
| 4 | So if y there would be the cognitive demon which was the letter A and what would happen is , it would start looking at the features that were coming into the system and it would say , are they the ones associated with A ? |
| 5 | Of course , psychiatric diagnosis is not an error free process , and it is possible that in a proportion of the cases where there was diagnostic disagreement it was the research assessment that was in error ; it should be noted that in some cases the research psychiatrists could not agree among themselves on the diagnosis . |
| 6 | there was a large room which was the Control Room and er in there they had erm four , three or four erm telephones which were manned constantly for twenty four hours |
| 7 | I knew that the Vadinamian Intelloid who was the entry controller would guide Posi to orbital position where we would wait for our turn to land — for only one ship at a time can make the approach to Vadinimia 's unusual port . |
| 8 | In Thomas ' and Potter 's article it was the leaf length , not the plant weight , which was represented by the Richards functions . |
| 9 | Eliot was able to ‘ recognise himself through someone other ’ — a changeable other , but at one point it was the Frenchman Laforgue . |
| 10 | It is right to say that the applicant asserts that since that time Mr. Tee has not been associated with the running of Winchester 's business , although of course on his own evidence he was the majority shareholder in that company . |
| 11 | In the mid to late Sixties for instance there was the playwright Joe Orton . |
| 12 | And of course there was the fertilizer pile , next to me — beyond which was a slightly different pile , with sticks thrusting out of it at angles . |
| 13 | Let's say for the sake of argument it was the scullery window . |
| 14 | Whenever Dyson 's phone rang that week it was the television company . |
| 15 | Former England winger , Brian Marwood who 's on trial could have celebrated his first game with a hat trick , but County keeper , Martin Taylor was on top form and by keeping Swindon out and keeping his own team in the game he was the match winner . |
| 16 | they , they er , the building society which was the insurance company was n't it that we had the mortgage through ? |
| 17 | They are generally large to accommodate the pilgrims and resemble the church which was the pilgrimage goal . |
| 18 | No sooner had I laid back down when the sound of the buzzer broke the peace again and to my amazement it was the boilie rod . |
| 19 | When my eyes finished leaking , I looked up and of course it was the lead drainpipe . |
| 20 | By a notice of appeal dated 23 April 1992 the Treasury Solicitor appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) on a true construction of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 the court was precluded from making the order for examination ; ( 2 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in making the order and in holding that ( i ) it was possible to interpret section 9(4) of the Act so as not to preclude the order sought , ( ii ) the exclusion contained in section 9(4) was restricted to cases where the actual capacity in which the witness was called on to give evidence was a Crown capacity and that the fact that the evidence sought was acquired in the course of the witness 's employment as a servant of the Crown was not of itself sufficient to bring the case within the exclusion , ( iii ) the fact that the witness was now retired from his position was relevant to the question whether the exclusion in section 9(4) applied , ( iv ) if some other interpretation were possible , it would be unacceptable to approach section 9(4) as requiring the court to refuse to make the order that a witness who was competent and compellable within the United Kingdom should give evidence for foreign proceedings , ( v ) there was nothing in the material sought to be given in evidence which it could have been the policy or intention of the Act to have prevented being explored ; ( 3 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in approaching the question of capacity by concentrating on the position of the witness at the time that the evidence was to be given as opposed to the position of the witness at the time that he acquired the information which was the subject matter of the evidence and the nature content and source of such evidence ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly ignored the fact that the Crown as a party to the Hague Convention was in a position to give effect to it and to provide evidence to foreign courts in accordance with it without recourse to the court ; and ( 5 ) the judge had wrongly approached section 9(4) on the footing that it most likely addressed prejudice to the sovereignty of the state . |
| 21 | When we used the barrel of the gun , it was to facilitate the end which was the ballot box . ’ |
| 22 | The pool was just bel just beside the harbourmaster 's office just a little further where it is now , cos what we had , what we call the yard , that 's where the engineers ' workshops was , the carpenters ' shop , which is still there and then little further up th up the Newcut East there was the pool place for the National Dock Labour Board . |
| 23 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 24 | If on the other hand it was the morning fire of the returning verderers it would be possible for Hugh to stumble back to them pretending he had failed to recapture his prisoner . |
| 25 | Copies were presented to the hotel which was the squadron Officers ' Mess during the Second World War and to the chairman of the 617 Squadron Association John Langston CBE . |
| 26 | In a wide bowl there was the night glimmer of a stream which was churned to flashing silver as they thrashed through it , the spray soaking them to their thighs . |
| 27 | When she went down to breakfast there was the background noise of caterers clearing away the vestiges of the ball . |
| 28 | ‘ The guides claimed to have taken us to the edge of the Sahara but when I looked on a map it was the Atlas mountains , the bastards . ’ |
| 29 | Today all that remains of this once extensive abbey is a striking pinnacle of crumbling stonework which was the South East angle of the central tower of the Cruciform church . |
| 30 | Falkland , 4 miles away , is an ancient town with a 16th-century palace which was the country residence of Stuart kings and queens . |