Example sentences of "the [noun] was [prep] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suggestions that the split was in part a generational conflict were reinforced by figures which indicated that , of the Takeshita faction 's total legislative strength of 109 members , Obuchi was supported by only 19 members in the House of Representatives ( the lower chamber , where members tended to be younger than in the upper chamber ) but by all 42 members in the House of Councillors . |
| 2 | And the loss was in part the loss of some aspect of herself , as irretrievable as past happiness . |
| 3 | As I eased the Transit over some of the more violent ruts in the track , I noticed that one of the lean-tos was in fact an old single decker bus from which the wheels had been removed . |
| 4 | It was also found that while the aircraft was in service a modification to the door mechanism had been carried out in a way which did not comply with the appropriate service bulletin . |
| 5 | So you know , nothing might come of that but if it does erm I would be very keen to actually er the , the plan was to second a member of C S M T for six months to do it , and I would be very keen to do it I must admit . |
| 6 | The only er solid part of the wardrobe was in fact the front part , which was made of Sorry about that . |
| 7 | But the status of the duchy was in essence no different from that of the other great principalities — Flanders , Artois , Burgundy or Anjou . |
| 8 | In other words , so long as the campaign was in effect a referendum on the Government 's performance , Labour won . |
| 9 | Mr. Clark had to get a bricklayer to repair the walls that were broken and he complained that although the schoolmaster was in attendance the whole time , the boys had made it worse than it was before . |
| 10 | The bureaucracy was for Marx the most important instrument by which such domination was exercised . |
| 11 | The powerplant was in fact a coupled pair of liquid-cooled Aichi Atsuta 30s that developed 3,400hp . |
| 12 | The fish was of course a familiar ecclesiastical emblem , originating with the cryptogram of the early disciples , and then elaborating on the analogy of ‘ fishers of men ’ . |
| 13 | The Mimulus was in fact a garden escape , but he allowed it all the same , while conceding that a purist would not . |
| 14 | The decree was in part a response to months of student protest against the court ruling , some of the strongest of which had occurred in November 1989 . |
| 15 | Also , of course , the ferment in the universities was in part a revolt against the technocratic role which they had been assigned in the Wilsonian scheme of things . |
| 16 | Aggie persevered with the kitten and when it was time to get it neutered she went along to the local vet , who informed her that the tomcat was in fact a ‘ she ’ . |
| 17 | But anti-fascist campaigners said yesterday they were convinced it was a pseudonym and the organisation was in fact a front for the ultra-right wing British National Party . |
| 18 | I liked the way Karen had picked up that my story about the wallet was in fact a message , and I liked the message she was sending back even more . |
| 19 | Although they faithfully echoed the time-honoured myth that the Tsarist government stood above social divisions and cared for the interests of all classes , they firmly grasped that the mainstay of the autocracy was in fact the landed nobility . |
| 20 | Held , refusing the declarations , that a basic valuation prepared by an employee of a building society was an ‘ action taken by the society in relation to ’ the grant of a further advance within section 83(1) of the Act and since it constituted part of the society 's process of administration , such a valuation , if negligently prepared , could amount to maladministration within paragraph 1 ( d ) of Part III to Schedule 12 to the Act ; that , on the documentation used by the plaintiff societies , a house buyers ' valuation prepared by an employee created a contract between the society and the borrower , which if negligently prepared could amount to a breach of the society 's contractual obligation within paragraph 1 ( a ) of Part III to Schedule 12 ; that although the alleged want of due skill and care might relate to matters not affecting the society 's assessment of the adequacy of the security , the valuation was in reality a single process amounting to an action within section 83(1) ; and that , accordingly , the ombudsman had jurisdiction under the scheme set up under the Act to investigate and determine complaints arising out of basic valuations , house buyers ' valuations , and , since there was no relevant distinction in the nature of the contractual relationship , structural surveys by a society 's employee in the same circumstances ( post , pp. 145A–H , 150B — 151A , H — 152A ) . |
| 21 | Records Managers fell into two groups ; the first suggesting that the e-mail message had no legal status since , there was no signature and , due to the lack of control over people allowing their staff access to personal accounts via their own password , there was no proof that the sender was in fact the account holder from which the message was logged . |
| 22 | While the norm was in effect a type of seduction poem , in which sexual love is frustrated and unrealized , Shakespeare drops that whole area of human behaviour yet shows that love-poetry is still possible — only a new kind of love . |
| 23 | The promotion was in fact a joint one involving 100 titles from both presses . |
| 24 | The small resort village of Fluelen at the end of the lake was for centuries an important lake port and customs station where goods were trans-shipped from the lake to mule transport for carriage over the Gotthard . |
| 25 | In view of all this , it is hardly surprising that Domesday Book reveals a country in which the church was in places a mighty landowner . |
| 26 | The vision was in fact the peak of Sgurr an Lochain , the penultimate top along a ridge traversing the crest of the southern wall of Kintail in a westerly direction , and incorporating the wonderful heights of . |
| 27 | This was a typically fashionable thing to do at this the height of the ‘ Picturesque Movement ’ , when romantic thoughts could be conjured in an instant by the sight of a castle , but the reality was of course a different matter . |
| 28 | It is fortunate for the further success of the breed that the liaison between these two animals did not produce fruit , except on one occasion , since the bitch was in fact a long coat , and thus unable to be registered with the ADRK . |
| 29 | The sale of the drawings was without doubt the most important of its kind since 1951 when the Marquess of Bute offloaded drawings by architects including Wren , Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor , a number of which entered the V&A collections . |
| 30 | As I stumbled along , she told me that the present appearance of the castle was in part the creation of the hotel people , who had joined two separate buildings together . |