Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [prep] [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first exact solution to be published which describes a collision between plane waves was in fact that of Szekeres ( 1970 ) . |
| 2 | General Scott was at Oshkosh this year to see Dick Hansen 's P-40 . |
| 3 | A Health and Safety team were on site this afternoon trying to find out what happened.Meanwhile nearby lay the visor and welding kit that could hold the key to the tragedy . |
| 4 | Some 140 full-time workers are now resident and around 3,000 short-term workers were in Albania this summer . |
| 5 | The sports were in fact more of a backcloth than the central event ; the real purpose of the day was for the parents to prowl around the school inspecting the various displays of work set up in the classrooms , and compare the achievement of their offspring with that of others . |
| 6 | The Government has estimated if the replacement for the poll tax were in force this year the bill for a Darlington house worth up to £40,000 would be £301 . |
| 7 | The general aim was to hand these problems over , if only at a conceptual level in the first instance , to the North and South Devon district management teams . |
| 8 | The shift was in fact half over by the time I started and I was n't really able to do much of any value . |
| 9 | The Government has estimated if the council tax the replacement for the poll tax was in force this year the bill for a Darlington house worth up to £40,000 would be £301 . |
| 10 | The question of questions was at bottom this : the nineteenth century , with its partial proof of evolution and its axiom that miracles do not happen , enabled the chance of historical enquiry into the life and work of Jesus through the testing of ancient documents . |
| 11 | The most elaborate and highly wrought codes in this area were of course those of contemporary pornography . |
| 12 | Expeditions to the far-flung corners of the world in search of scientific novelties were in vogue that season as they had never been before . |
| 13 | Some highly placed people were in fact former pupils of his . |
| 14 | If the public wanted a system where general practitioners were on call all night then proper resources would have to be made available . |
| 15 | Sometimes Elise was at home all day , sometimes not . |
| 16 | quite easy , well it was comparatively easy , only trouble was of course that erm at night erm one had to go right down from County Hall to Barrett Corner to get on the bus because they were so full by the time they got to County Hall and erm so I used to walk down there with erm a chap from the Education Department , who was in the Works and Stores , a chap and erm , he was quite helpful . |
| 17 | Cotterell was in touch that evening , at around eight . |
| 18 | Norman Lessels , Cairn 's chairman , said a combination of the two factors meant that the sterling value of US gas spot sales was about double that of a year ago . |
| 19 | To sustain the more general claims one would first need to have a systematic account of the class structure of a society which showed that the interests promoted by the state were in fact those of the ruling class . |
| 20 | The attack showed that security force members were at risk all the time and they could now best be repaid by finding a political solution to the Ulster conflict . |
| 21 | Their own fascio-max man was on holiday that week or the problem would n't have arisen . |
| 22 | ‘ Ramsbum was on duty that whole afternoon . |
| 23 | ‘ Morrissey was off school that day , ’ remembers Bob Manc , now a plumber . |
| 24 | ‘ Sir Alfred was at Goodwood that day , ’ says Rudd , ‘ and asked me why de Graffenreid was blowing us off . |
| 25 | Wpc Jones was in fact several yards away and for the moment unaware of any change in the situation . |
| 26 | Whilst all this was going on , the enemy night defences were of course more than keeping pace with our ever-changing methods . |
| 27 | Many of these shows were on subjects such as music appreciation , history , current affairs and so on . |
| 28 | And in addition we now know that Stratton was in Didcot most of that afternoon . |
| 29 | ( The airfield was in use all the time thereafter . ) |
| 30 | The Party could always be relied upon to orchestrate the massive demonstrations whose purpose was to cow those who doubted Franco 's strength and silence allegations that the regime was not legitimated by popular support . |