Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [was/were] [prep] the [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 | His idea that the Jews were to the Syrians what the Brahmans were to the Indians gained favour ( F.Gr.H. 715 F.3 . |
| 4 | Time and again , sons or hired hands were sent vaulting over the dry stone walls to Low Birk Hatt when it became obvious that the Hauxwells were on the point of dropping with exhaustion as they struggled to finish their haymaking or sheep shearing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ When he was vice-president , I met him at a stage dinner when the Reagans were in the White House and we had a dance and we talked about playing tennis . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yet the kind of premises favoured by small-time craftsmen look as if they were not so suitable for a spot of Miscellaneous Repos ; by the October of 1856 the Titfords were on the move yet again , this time to 15 Penton Street , Clerkenwell . |
| 10 | The Youngs were with the Unwins from Australia and Filmer and Daffodil shared a table with a pair Nell later identified to me as the American owners of the horse called Flokati . |
| 11 | Then , as now , the NHS was in the throes of reorganisation and the cry was that extra millions were being wasted on bureaucracy . |
| 12 | Really , the Atlantic was like the subconscious . |
| 13 | WHEN the great gale struck in October 1987 , the FitzPatricks were in the middle of building their Hedlunds home in the village of Upton Grey , near Basingstoke . |
| 14 | the Shah was in the garden . |
| 15 | The direct competition with the BBC was for the audience . |
| 16 | The Home Office report ( 1979 ) indicated that 5 per cent of all experiments in the UK were in the nature of such routine testing . |
| 17 | Although we in the UK were behind the Americans in introducing the mandatory carriage of FDRs in public transport aircraft fitted with turbine engines , we had the advantage of learning from their experience since some foreign registered aircraft of American manufacture which were fitted with FDRs crashed in the UK . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Power 's played for Caroline and Co while the McConnells were on the Frazers Select team . |
| 22 | The difference from six months before was that The O'Neils were near the end of the first half instead of being just after the opening . |
| 23 | They set off for Siwa , arriving on 21 June only to discover that the LRDG was in the process of abandoning the place . |
| 24 | The Cotswolds were at the forefront of woollen manufacturing in England until the rise of factory industry gave precedence to Yorkshire . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | The new courts and departments established under the Tudors were from the beginning staffed by laymen : there was no question of clerical officials being appointed to the Courts of Wards or Augmentations . |
| 27 | Problems of drug control and illegal immigration into the USA were among the issues raised in Monterrey . |
| 28 | By then the BEF was astride the ridge originally occupied by the Germans . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Soon the Sea-Fret was alongside the jetty at Gullholm and Leonora leapt out nimbly . |