Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 2 | The most crucial test of this was at a standing stone at Kintraw , Argyll . |
| 3 | The important consequence of this was for the operation of the developer builders . |
| 4 | All of this was against the Welfare at Markets Order of 1990 says Animal Aid . |
| 5 | All of this was in the hours ahead , for I was now to live through one of the toughest three days and nights I ever experienced . |
| 6 | It later transpired that all but one of these were for the Bulgarian A team . |
| 7 | Most docks were around the Midlands ; over a hundred of these were on the Birmingham Canals . |
| 8 | A quarter of these were on the streets the day they were delivered from the printers . |
| 9 | Some of the finest of these were on the walls of Puang Sangalla 's house , where Ranteallo took us the following morning to meet his dead father , and barely alive eighty-seven-year-old mother . |
| 10 | We have created a considerable number of new jobs in south Norfolk ; regrettably , some of these were at the expense of people affected by the closure of the Ipswich site , but nevertheless , such opportunities in a rural environment have been viewed very positively by the local community . |
| 11 | Most of these were between the age of 15 and 30 , and the majority who died were unidentified . |
| 12 | Thus only about 70 or 80 of the brides were marrying skilled manual workers ; and 42 of these were in the printing trade , massively skewing the figures . |
| 13 | Far too many of these were in the motor industry . |
| 14 | A total of 75% of the households moving into new owner-occupied dwellings were from the County of Tyne and Wear and the greater part of these were from the Newcastle and North Tyneside MDC areas . |
| 15 | One of these was for a doctor who has gone to the Middlesex Hospital . |
| 16 | One of these was for the creation of a new statutory historic buildings committee . |
| 17 | At the end of this terrace was a brick wall some ten feet in height behind which were the gardens of the Milford Hill houses , the first of these was on the corner of the streets . |
| 18 | The first of these was by a Pole , Piotr Elert ( d. 1653 ) , but most were the work of Marco Scacchi ( d. c. 1685 ) . |
| 19 | Last time she had slipped out in the dark like this was on the night the Doyles had come , the night that had ended with a mystery and a death . |
| 20 | The last time he had felt like this was in a house in Florence , when he and Julius had been about to visit Cosimo de' Medici and extract a commission to represent the Medici in Trebizond . |
| 21 | He used to listen to his music all the time when he was not at college , so the opportunity to do something like this was like a homage to Hendrix , a thank you for letting him discover music . ’ |
| 22 | Another good time for one dealer to pinch leads from another was during the presentation of a visiting company chairman . |
| 23 | She grabbed the copy of Racing Post that was on the table . |
| 24 | After the concert , Branson explained how difficult it was to sell Oldfield 's music in America ; indeed , the only way Virgin had been able to find an American distributor for his records at all was on the back of a deal made for a new group on the label , XTC — precisely the kind of music Oldfield abhorred . |
| 25 | No one at all was on the beach . |
| 26 | Currently , no Scouts at all were aboard the fortress-monastery . |
| 27 | As both were in the diet group , they continued in the study and subsequently had normal babies . |