Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] was the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only remarkable thing about me was the fact that I was still doing a holiday job at the age of forty . |
| 2 | A difference between them was the existence in Belgium of two racial groups , the Flemings and the Walloons . |
| 3 | The jealousy between them was the talk of the Court at the time . |
| 4 | Indeed , the possible conjunction of the northern Anglian princes and Domnall Brecc in the same area could imply that an alliance between Angles and Scots or at least concerted action between them was the key to Anglian success in north Britain in the reign of Oswald . |
| 5 | ‘ The main attraction for me was the court work . |
| 6 | That was important , but much more important for me was the message that crofting , which I had seen as a hang-over , an anachronism , had enduring values I had not previously recognised . |
| 7 | Lying in bed , looking at the stiff poses in the pictures , I began to want to see the living reality — and the only reality to begin with for me was the singing that I heard through my sickroom window . |
| 8 | It is impossible to describe all the uplifting and thought-provoking sessions we had at the Farm , but an especially wonderful experience for me was the fantasy meditation . |
| 9 | The only thing that ruined the game for me was the time it took to load each room . |
| 10 | A big disappointment for me was the fact that Ron was n't there . |
| 11 | Even more exciting for me was the news that our Principal , Reg Clarke , had decided to entrust me with the command of the first of the 1.5 million pound cruisers to be named Searcher . |
| 12 | The next danger for me was the Arête . |
| 13 | We took the opportunity to drive the outgoing model while we had the new one and were left in no doubt about which was the driver 's car . |
| 14 | I believe that Eton now admits women to its sixth form , but nevertheless there could be no serious doubt about which was the man and which was the woman . |
| 15 | As a result , one of the committee lost his temper and told Filmer he was the scum of the earth and no one in racing would sleep well until he was warned off which was the number one priority of the world 's racing authorities . ’ |
| 16 | Does that mean that , in the ‘ reward cases ’ ( above , pp.35–39 ) , a promise was enforceable , the consideration for which was the performance of an existing legal duty ? |
| 17 | They expanded their scope in 1844 to make white phosphorus ( from bone-ash ) , the main outlet for which was the making of matches . |
| 18 | Irene MacLean and Karen Baird of the Rowan Gallery in Drymen judged the competition , the topic for which was the rainforest . |
| 19 | Under the old concession , the Inland Revenue would give its approval to a group scheme which included a JOC provided certain conditions were met : the JOC was controlled by two people neither of whom controlled the company and one of whom was the grantor of the relevant scheme ; and the relevant scheme was extended to the JOC by only one of its two joint owners . |
| 20 | Philip the Fair 's interventions in the 1290s were still guided and determined by the appeals of the allegedly wronged and disaffected vassals of the magnates , the greatest of whom was the king-duke of Aquitaine . |
| 21 | Below them was the farm , the orchards , the fields . |
| 22 | One of them was the hen with the neck feathers missing . |
| 23 | But her very virtues carried their own faults , and not the least of them was the possibility of her being upset by matters she could not understand . |
| 24 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 25 | One of them was the influence of ‘ public opinion ’ on policy . |
| 26 | By and large , these and other regional officers ' reports from the second wave of evacuation did not indicate that the outcry of September 1939 was justified ; typical of them was the verdict of one officer in October 1940 that ‘ the general standard of those evacuated is good and 80% of them should offer no difficulty at all in billeting ’ . |
| 27 | One of them was the lady with him in this picture , Bessie Yendley , who became his fiance . |
| 28 | In the midst of them was the Baroness . |
| 29 | The first day Benguiat accused him — Parkinson printed up this sheet as a handout with which the finished examples had the logos that he was exploring in the lectures and one of them was the New York Times magazine , and of course Benguiat had done the original job for the New York Times and the magazine , the other magazine , so he thought that what Parkinson was showing was an example of a redesign , relettering of an existing logo , and perhaps he should n't of said that , you know . |
| 30 | ‘ This is what it is all about really ’ , said one of the clowns , handing me a bun just before he dashed across to the pub car park where they all lined up in order to be judged which of them was the best-dressed ( he was , incidentally ) . |