Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coun Williams replied that he had always said the money was from an insurance payout , adding : ‘ It is very easy for the Liberal Democrat councillors to make such statements . |
| 2 | By macabre coincidence , the truck was from an Army unit based in Dortmund , only 70 miles from the German town of Hofgeismar , where many of the injured tourists came from . |
| 3 | The entrance was through an iron gate some four feet in width — to the left was the caretaker 's house and on the right a small committee room . |
| 4 | The tall , thin young man stood up , realizing that the interview was at an end . |
| 5 | The heat was overpowering , the sun glared out of a dear blue sky , the inside of the car was like an oven . |
| 6 | The fires burned through the night , signalling across the forest that the era of the rajathuk was at an end . |
| 7 | Where a reference , or part of one , has taken place , the courts consider a number of factors to establish whether the reference was to an expert or an arbitrator , and those factors have become known as " indicia " , because of the use of that word by Lord Wheatley in Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1975 ] 3 WLR 815 . |
| 8 | ( Tabb ( 1984 ) shows that in 1978 one in three of all manufacturing jobs in the South was in an industry with a wage rate below the national average for all manufacturing , indicating that low-wage jobs in particular had been attracted there . ) |
| 9 | The room was in an uproar , the children huddled together and all screaming . |
| 10 | The pop was from an airgun , not a bullet , being fired . |
| 11 | Those living near the common have say the festival was like an invasion , but questions are being asked about the way the festival was policed . |
| 12 | The immigration appeal tribunal said the onus was on an applicant to bring himself within the specific immigration rule , and if he was unable or unwilling to do so he could not expect to succeed . |
| 13 | The cab was from an M-F 1200 and link arms came from a David Brown . |
| 14 | The procedure was on an outpatient basis without administration of analgesic or sedative medication . |
| 15 | The wall was in an interior which was almost dark . |
| 16 | The noise and the shock were like an explosion . |
| 17 | Hence the emphasis was upon an expenditure solution to the UK 's budgetary problems . |
| 18 | None was needed ; the jewels signified dismissal , announced the relationship was at an end . |
| 19 | And I think it 's freezing , the pantry was like an ice box . |
| 20 | The row was like an earthquake but I did not think it was the end for us , ’ she said . |
| 21 | Well , the chamber was in an uproar . |
| 22 | The application was for an injunction to stop Mr Woodall and his partner using the name ‘ champagne ’ , pending a full trial hearing . |
| 23 | They racketed in a ragged chorus , never quite finding a common beat , rasping one 's nerves , but finally so familiar that when one day they stopped in a rare shower of rain , the silence was like an explosion . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeal of Hong Kong held that the bank was under an obligation to return the deposit and the bank appealed : |
| 25 | A note in his voice that he had long cultivated indicated that the discussion was at an end . |
| 26 | He stood up to indicate thai the conversation was at an end and that he had no wish to be involved as a partner in such blasphemous and heretical talk . |
| 27 | The conversation was at an end . |
| 28 | The heating had been off over the weekend , and the office was like an ice-box . |