Example sentences of "the [noun prp] was [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NO REVIEW , since the NME was in the midst of a lengthy NUJ strike ! |
| 2 | Now , the whole of the West and the Mid-West was like the Navaho Reservation . |
| 3 | Mr Bishop said that the ACCA was in the process of looking at the job 's terms of reference within the context of the ACCA 's future strategy and would be contacting headhunters shortly . |
| 4 | The S.M.O. was of the opinion that this was the third , not second night , and that for twenty-four hours before he was knocked down the patch of consolidation had started forming in Bill Francis 's lung . |
| 5 | The CNAA was from the beginning anxious to ensure progress towards greater democratic government in institutions , particularly , as we have seen , in the creation and proper functioning of academic boards . |
| 6 | The public and professional opposition to I M Pei 's famous glass pyramids at the Louvre was of a ferocity that would never have been withstood in England . |
| 7 | Then , as now , the NHS was in the throes of reorganisation and the cry was that extra millions were being wasted on bureaucracy . |
| 8 | Already Washington knew that it was only a matter of time before the USSR was in a position to present a serious nuclear threat to the United States itself . |
| 9 | Really , the Atlantic was like the subconscious . |
| 10 | the Shah was in the garden . |
| 11 | The direct competition with the BBC was for the audience . |
| 12 | Clearly , the Williams-Renault was on the pace even though gearbox trouble would eventually account for both drivers , Patrese 's departure being the more dramatic of the two . |
| 13 | The interior of The Lodge was like a show house , flashily furnished , expense no object . |
| 14 | Rutherford 's earliest research at the Cavendish was on a detector for electromagnetic waves , an essential feature of which was a small coil containing a tiny bundle of magnetised iron wire . |
| 15 | In that final respect , the Healey was like the Cobra , but the Cobra did n't even have external door handles , just simple pulls inside which you reach in to open . |
| 16 | One theory is that the US was at a loss to know how to deal with the rebels becuase it had , indeed , been plotting a Panamanian coup , but not this coup . |
| 17 | The NUWM was at the centre of most of the violent clashes with the police in the early 1930s , though this tactic was later changed to the more peaceful and probably more effective " hunger march " which took the unemployed through the countryside and down to London rather than leaving them isolated in the Distressed Areas . |
| 18 | They set off for Siwa , arriving on 21 June only to discover that the LRDG was in the process of abandoning the place . |
| 19 | But the similarity goes further : Miltiades had been a great figure in the early colonial days of Athens : his pocket principality in the Chersonese was in the van of Pisistratid expansion ( for good relations between the tyrants and Miltiades in the 520s see the archon-list ML 6 = Fornara 23 , belying Herodotus : Miltiades had held high office under the tyrants ) . |
| 20 | By then the BEF was astride the ridge originally occupied by the Germans . |
| 21 | The BAAS was on the surface a democratic and provincial body , run in fact by a small group of professionals , a Cambridge network of gentlemen of science . |
| 22 | Throughout the whole exercise the Puffer was in a state of obvious distress , but did not inflate . |
| 23 | Soon the Sea-Fret was alongside the jetty at Gullholm and Leonora leapt out nimbly . |