Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] was [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 And Claire got involved in the action as national coach Matt Doyle was of the opinion that she was entitled to match play .
2 I am not saying that that had anything to do with the fact that Brigadier Crawley was in the same regiment as Lieutenant-Colonel Inkin , who is the chairman of the Cardiff Bay development corporation .
3 If the trough cyclosporin level was in the therapeutic range ( 80–120 ng/ml ) and the rise in serum creatinine did not correct after reducing the dose , then treatment was discontinued until the serum creatinine returned to pretreatment values .
4 Large scale drug smuggling was on the increase , and a more professional approach to combat this was being used by the law-enforcement teams .
5 Through the Lousadas Minton was to an extent drawn into a Hammersmith circle of artists which included Victor Pasmore , Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden who once danced with Minton at a New Year 's Eve party until she literally dropped , whereupon he gently laid her down on the floor .
6 Levi 's support base was within the large Sephardi community ( members or descendants of the western branch of European Jews who settled in Spain and Portugal and latterly in north Africa , as opposed to the Askhenazi — the northern European Yiddish-speaking Jews ) , and many of his supporters claimed that the Shamir-Arens-Sharon collaboration had been nothing short of ethnic discrimination by the " Ashkenazi bosses " .
7 Levi , whose support base was within the large Sephardi community , had suffered a humiliating defeat in internal Likud elections held in early March , and accused the Prime Minister and Likud leader , Itzhak Shamir , of promoting ethnic discrimination against his community .
8 His first major field research was among the Nupe people of Northern Nigeria , and on his second field research period there , 1935-36 , he wrote up a work journal which has never been published .
9 By the turn of the century , alignment research was on the increase , although it was being carried on by individuals working in isolation from each other .
10 One of the main initial bases of the White armies under General Kornilov was on the lower Don river with Kaledin , Ataman of the Don Cossacks .
11 On the icy roads and tracks of sweden the prodrive rally team from Banbury were flying at the weekend … at the end of day one Colin McRae was in the lead … on day two he dropped back … on day three broke a wheel on a boulder but came in third just 28 seconds behind the winner …
12 It was six months before their debut album was in the shops and by that time public interest in them had waned .
13 Charles Hernu , bombarded the conference delegates with sweet talk on how useful defence research was for the civil sector and how good they were to researchers .
14 In this respect , the opinions of the parliamentary leadership were not dissimilar to those of the majority of Labour supporters , but this congruence does not invalidate the claim that Labour 's substantive and definite electoral support bloc was on the decline , and was being replaced , at least at the margin , by a more conditional and circumspect form of popular support .
15 His cheque card was on the table .
16 Within a few minutes Elisa was on the settee in the sitting room where , at last , she regained consciousness .
17 Fundamentally , liking the ‘ new ’ Wedding Present was of a question of taste .
18 They were to the 1980s what F Scott Fitzgerald was to the roaring twenties .
19 But Miss Foley was at the door .
20 Other than in Ipswich , where the WEA branch was among the small group of vigorous , active and well-organised centres in the District , there appeared to be little prospect for development without LEA-funded support in the pre-war years and , as in West Suffolk , the development of a substantial WEA presence did not occur until after the 1939–45 war .
21 But Pat Milligan was in no mood to be mollified .
22 Within a few years Dunkirk Mills was under the control , although not in the complete ownership of Peter Playne , of a long-established clothier family of Flemish descent .
23 The Chelsea Football case was about an unusual clause dealing with the calculation of the rent .
24 The only styling change was to the headlamps with the plexiglass shells removed .
25 Richard Barnett was at the finishing line .
26 Andy Payton was in the starting line-up with Stuart Ripley on the substitutes ' bench .
27 Andy Payton was in the starting line-up with Stuart Ripley on the bench .
28 LAST TIME I meet Bobby Paine was in a hotel room in Milwaukee at 3am , when myself and Brian Setzer were playing indoor golf , drinking a bit and listening to Bobby tell his mad stories about Jerry Lee , Billy Idol and sundry LA psychos — barmy late-night company !
29 From the equipment , we can see that the Frankish horse soldier was in the earliest stages of development into the armed and armoured knight of later centuries .
30 Luke 's wedding ring was on the table , close to her hand , and her eyes were wide open , like the eyes of someone who has just woken up .
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