Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] was [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fundamentally , liking the ‘ new ’ Wedding Present was of a question of taste . |
| 2 | And even he had like their their wedding ring was in a little purse . |
| 3 | Her first celluloid appearance was as a younger version of Susannah Yorks character in Falling In Love Again . |
| 4 | In any case , the HSLO initiative was on a very small scale . |
| 5 | The sitting room was on a at the stage . |
| 6 | The modern car ferry was like a nautical greenhouse with the sun streaming in the south-facing picture windows — passengers ' heads wilting with heat and motion like so many tomato plants . |
| 7 | How can my hon. Friend argue that compensation should be given to haemophiliacs because , sadly , they suffered a congenital disease and that a sick person who required a blood transfusion was in a different category ? |
| 8 | My first sight of a Lofoten fishing port was on a small island off Svolvær . |
| 9 | Clem Bunker was in a rare-rage . |
| 10 | The defendant shipowner was under a statutory duty to provide pens for cattle on board his ship . |
| 11 | Its Chapter House was like a Board Room , where the abbots presided like chairmen of the Board , with the profit motive high on the agenda . |
| 12 | That the Church in the form in which it was re-established eventually survived the Puritan onslaught was to a large extent due to the philosophical and historical basis which was provided for it with formidable learning by Richard Hooker . |
| 13 | When the loans began , the Japanese stock market was on a spectacular bull run in which almost any investment paid off handsomely . |
| 14 | The U K stock market was in a lethargic mood today , despite an encouraging start to Wall Street . |
| 15 | His successful War Department design was for a three-storey building with attics around four internal courts . |
| 16 | Whereas Belial Base had been built on the outer surface of a solid moon , Moloch Base was inside a hollow one ; a miracle of planetary engineering which , after five years , still had Bannen and his team groping in the dark for answers to questions they did n't even know how to formulate . |
| 17 | The first strawberry patch was in a clearing where the undergrowth was thick and leafy . |
| 18 | Let us assume that initially the exchange rate was in a stable equilibrium with no shifts in the demand for and supply of sterling . |
| 19 | The return journey was on a very old bus which picked up people , with baskets of vegetables ready for Funchal market , all along its route . |
| 20 | The IRA had seen to it that getting in and out of the Party conference building was like a rich man confronted with the gates of the Kingdom of Heaven , or , what was worse , like checking-in at Gatwick on an August flight to Marbella . |
| 21 | Valeriy Kulishov , advisor to the Russian Minister for Culture on restitution matters and member of the Restitution Commission , told The Art Newspaper : ‘ The talk at the Dresden meeting was to a large extent about a legal basis , and the protocol of the meeting itself is a kind of ‘ framework ’ agreement . |
| 22 | The first meeting place was above a cafe in Newgate Street in the City of London , but this did not prove satisfactory and they then met on a weekly basis at another cafe near Marble Arch . |
| 23 | The first meeting place was in a small room with only one window in Lady Stair 's Close , Lawnmarket . |
| 24 | The most convenient time for this routine servicing was on a Sunday and the three men soon became familiar with the sophisticated equipment . |
| 25 | As a consequence , the overall effect of the smart suit was marred by the Miami Dolphins T-shirt and the fact that his brand-new red and black squared silk tie was in a bow knot around his right wrist . |
| 26 | We had a very impromptu meal which was brought out from somewhere near Bahrain because our landing area was in a small offshore sand strip where the Nos 55 and 84 Squadron aircraft ( also a Valentia from No 70 Squadron , which was our support aircraft ) were all based overnight and I went to sleep in this hot and humid place , The humidity factor at Bahrain was very high indeed , in the 90s , but I went to sleep quite comfortably on a groundsheet having dug a little hole for my not very considerable hips , weighing very little above 9 stone , and I settled down for the night . |
| 27 | All this is important because it meant that by the end of the 1930s British town planning was in a stronger position than would have been thought likely , to respond to the national emergency of physical destruction , which led to an unprecedented period of planned rebuilding . |
| 28 | The histamine treated xenografts were identical to those from the PBS treated control with respect to the number of inflammatory cells , showing that the increase in tumour size was as a result of an inflammatory response to the injected histamine . |
| 29 | Significantly , in the House of Lords the limitation clause was as a matter of construction upheld to apply to the circumstances of the case although , in the event , their Lordships affirmed the unanimous judgment of the Court of Appeal in holding that the clause was rendered unenforceable by statute because it would not be " fair or reasonable to allow reliance " on it . |
| 30 | To make it worse , the Connor bitch was on a fancied runner in the big race . |