Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He decided the wisest course was to pool all he had made over the last two years , enabling Julian to purchase the lease of a high street property . |
| 2 | It seemed yesterday that the conflicting ideas would be sorted out by President Mobutu , and that a political settlement was in sight . |
| 3 | The usual route was through Pamplona , Logroño , Santo Domingo de la Calzada , Burgos , Frómista , León and Astorga ; bridges were constructed where necessary and information given to pilgrims to assist their journey , which generally took 14 days from Roncevaux in the Pyrenees . |
| 4 | When it was time to go home again , at the hospital gates the friendly porter was on duty , sitting inside the cosy little wooden porters ' hut . |
| 5 | Fighter Command 's finest hour was of course the Battle of Britain , but this book gives the whole story of the men and the machines from its formation in 1936 until its absorption into Strike Command in 1968 . |
| 6 | True , eligible boys of that faith were at premium . |
| 7 | But David Beaton 's greatest worry was for Hector . |
| 8 | This morning I was imagining I 'd escaped and that Caliban was in court . |
| 9 | The only systematic disentanglement from corporatist theorizing and policy analysis of the administrative component was by R. E. Pahl and J. T. Winkler , writing at a time when it seemed that Britain had been developing in the direction of corporatism for the previous fifteen years and was experiencing sectoral planning , planning agreements and statutory or voluntary controls over prices , profit margins , dividends , wages , rents and the movement of capital . |
| 10 | The hour of Britain 's total defeat was at hand , and Winston Churchill would soon abandon England to preside over the ruins from the safety of his Canadian dominion . |
| 11 | However , that figure was in fact far better than it looked as the banks had the worst ranking of any sector , with an average negative rating of -1,357 . |
| 12 | The last time the Maronites promised reforms — when the multi-national force was in Beirut — Christian units of the Lebanese army arrested hundreds of Muslim Lebanese and the reforms never materialised . |
| 13 | To a politician the ability to do this kind of service was vital , and it was even more urgent if a political contest was in progress , lest the opposition perform the service . |
| 14 | Best junior entry was by Daniel Booth , aged 12 , a Groudle Glen Railway volunteer helper . |
| 15 | WITH TWO days of campaigning left in the closest election for 20 years , the biggest opinion poll of the campaign indicated last night that Labour was on course to become the largest single party in a hung parliament . |
| 16 | The Israeli action was in retaliation for a bomb attack , claimed by Hezbollah , which killed three soldiers on patrol in the Nabatiyeh area on Oct. 20 . |
| 17 | And a bloody car was in front like that . |
| 18 | In Cochinchina , as in Tonkin , French , Vietminh , and nationalist forces were in close proximity and as long as Vietnam 's political future was in doubt clashes were almost inevitable . |
| 19 | This grant was in support of the conference . |
| 20 | Yet , if we take this together with the fact that many other forms characteristic of modern English spread in these centuries from the East Midlands and the North , we can advance the hypothesis that this change was in progress in the East Midlands around 1300 , and look for further evidence to support or refute this . |
| 21 | One popular story was of walrus who sneak up on divers and such out their brains . |
| 22 | Even if some process of this kind was at work , one still has to explain the differences between women 's responses — why did some women describe themselves as housewives and others not ? |
| 23 | Perhaps the most serious dispersal of this kind was from Brent Library in the mid-1980s . |
| 24 | For the Republicans and their partisans , the broader struggle was between democracy and fascism . |
| 25 | All week long , the Hollywood gossip about this case was of drugs , mysticism and off-beat sex , and for once there may be more truth than fantasy in the flashy talk of the town . ’ |
| 26 | But in another way some stubbornness was at work in me , some determination never to give up , and to cling in secret to whatever reality I could find for myself . |
| 27 | But the 2-1 favourite was under pressure almost from the outset and betting slips were already being crumpled before the second circuit . |
| 28 | The site of this settlement was in Bredcroft or ‘ Bradcroft ’ meadow , and in the nineteenth century there was still evidence of its existence . |
| 29 | In a column dedicated to Gascoigne , Rome 's major sports newspaper the Corriere dello Sport , declared that the British footballer was without doubt ‘ a player of great class and considerable personality . ’ |
| 30 | According to Moody , this play was in draft form by April 1923 . |