Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [was/were] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately this play was overshadowed by the opening production and Crawford was the only leading actor not to merit a mention from Eric Shorter in the Daily Telegraph , who believed that the key to performing this wittiest of farces was in the technique . |
| 2 | More than 80 per cent of deputies were from the Azerbaijan CP , while the opposition deputies from the Popular Front , the Social Democrats , the Greens and the Union of the Democratic Intelligentsia united in parliament in an umbrella Democratic Bloc of Azerbaijan . |
| 3 | When Charles I 's Attorney-General sought to reclaim the long-lost Forest rights of his master , Crown , this group of returns was among the documents he triumphantly dug out of the records of the Exchequer . |
| 4 | Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane . |
| 5 | From Mars it must have looked as if opposing armies of ants were on the move . |
| 6 | But the commitment of governments was to the gold standard and free trade and , in 1922 , Baldwin reflected that , ‘ a free trade country , such as we are still , finds it very difficult to argue with a country that has a tariff weapon in its hand . ’ |
| 7 | When 5 Corps had first been informed by Gen Schmidt-Richberg of the approach of 600,000 Germans and Croats to the southern edge of the Corps area on the evening of 13 May , it had been assumed that this huge mass of fugitives was on the verge of entering Austria and that it would be difficult to prevent all of them from doing so . |
| 8 | As soon as one set of questions were on the way to being answered , others seemed to take their place . |
| 9 | The Chou Li says that the interpretation of dreams was in the department of the Grand Augur ( Ta Pu ) , and mentions a special expert of lower grade ( Chan Meng ) who specialised in it . |
| 10 | Even the , what few bits of lorries were on the road , they had a special mask on with er a shield over the top , so that the light was n't visible up above . |
| 11 | The almost inherent suspicion the police have of strangers was in the RUC 's case added to by worries about whether their personal security would be compromised and concern over the intentions of the police management . |
| 12 | ‘ The authorities in Northern Ireland were quite satisfied that a substantial amount of explosives was in the area , and it might only be a matter of time until this sort of activity was renewed . ’ |
| 13 | They earned an average weekly wage of 47 colones ( US$18.8 ) : 39% of the workforce were women , and 14% of females and 16% of males were below the age of 15 . |
| 14 | Others commented that the subjective experience of patients was outside the range of what could be recorded and judged objectively . |
| 15 | Within England , the greatest concentration of inhabitants was in the southeast of the country ( that is , Greater London and the surrounding counties ) , with a population of nearly 17 million . |
| 16 | Time-signals , geophysical measurements , weather reporting and the testing of chronometers were among the functions which they discharged . |
| 17 | Enclosure of common land , invasion of common rights and engrossing of farms were among the complaints put forward in the Norfolk rising , and there was also a demand for the ending of serfdom , although there is little evidence that there were still many men of villein status . |
| 18 | Furthermore , 66 per cent of respondents were against the return or even the 1967 refugees . |
| 19 | The views of teachers were amongst the matters looked into by the Sheffield University team when carrying out research for the Elton Committee . |
| 20 | The basket of flowers was on the shelf behind them . |
| 21 | But the suspension of negotiations was on the cards even before the Americans ' decision . |
| 22 | She said another group of men were in the restaurant , engaged in ‘ jovial banter with the staff of the Chinese takeaway ’ . |
| 23 | A bag with a change of clothes was in the boot . |
| 24 | However , sets of annals were over the years repeatedly copied , added to , and recopied , and E was demonstrably derived from earlier manuscripts which no longer survive , but whose entries were mostly unchanged by later scribes . |
| 25 | The mass of instruments was like the cockpit of a seven-four-seven , even down to a control column . |