Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Its worst loss of nerve was over a Channel 4 programme MI5 's Official Secrets in which Cathy Massiter , a former MI5 case officer responsible for surveillance of the peace movement , alleged that her investigations into CND had been passed on to government ministers for party-political use . |
| 32 | The main areas of fighting were in the north-western provinces of Battambang ( especially in the Sisophon area ) , Banteay Meanchey and Siem Reap-Oddar Meanchey ( especially around Chikreng ) , but the guerrillas , dominated militarily by the Khmer Rouge component , also claimed victories in Kampot and Kompong Speu in the south and in the central provinces of Kompong Chhnang and Kompong Thom , especially around Kompong Svay and Stoung . |
| 33 | It is not easy to reach a general conclusion on how valuable the process of appraisal was in the school as a whole . |
| 34 | She knew that Constance dealt in other , ill-gotten , commodities on these trips but concurred in the popular , criminal view that nicking a lorryload of underwear was in a different class from stealing wedding rings from old ladies . |
| 35 | The worst rates of loss were in the Welsh steel making counties of West Glamorgan ( -31.4 per cent ) and Clwyd ( -27.7 per cent ) , followed by Strathclyde ( 26.6 per cent ) , Merseyside ( -24.2 per cent ) and Durham ( -23.8 per cent ) . |
| 36 | In the ninth and tenth centuries the financial aspect of feudalism was on the whole less important than the military . |
| 37 | When civilization was no better than barbarism , the whole experiment of humanity was at an end , and it was time to clean the slate . |
| 38 | He agreed that a regrettable lack of foresight was at the root of it , but he felt that there were extenuating circumstances , and he seemed resolved to do something about it , in so far as he could . |
| 39 | However , there seems no doubt that slavery as a mode of exploitation was on the decline in Latin America , even before it was abolished , and that the economic case against this form of labour appeared increasingly strong after 1850 . |
| 40 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 41 | The scent of Ch'kassian was like a drug in the warm air of the common room . |
| 42 | Those most in favour of recycling were in the 15-19 and 35-54 age groups , and tended to come from higher income earners in southern England . |
| 43 | Ruth grinned at him as he sat down at a cane table , making sure he was under the bright green awning that hung over the balcony and not a sliver of sun was on the bare parts of his body . |
| 44 | There are complicating factors , of course In the depression of the thirties suicide rates for those out of work were at an all time high , but the suicide rate among the retired also increased It might be argued from this that economic uncertainty rather than unemployment per se is the cause . |
| 45 | The main areas of disagreement were over the economic control of aviation on the North Atlantic . |
| 46 | Another initial area of disagreement was over the casting of Susan George as his wife Amy . |
| 47 | The concept of flexibility was at the centre of debates surrounding economic restructuring throughout the 1980s . |
| 48 | The greatest continuity of ownership was in the Rothermere Associated Newspapers combine and the smaller and narrower Pearson/Westminster group . |
| 49 | But the weight of opinion was on the side of the man closest to the throne , murderous and oppressive or not . |
| 50 | Although there were some reservations of this kind in both industry and the institutions the balance of opinion was with the sandwich course , and within the Committee for Science and Technology and its boards the commitment to sandwich courses remained strong . |
| 51 | David Curry , Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries & Food , concluded that the balance of opinion was against the regulation and significant amendments would have to be made to the proposal to make it acceptable . |
| 52 | He failed always to understand that there was a large area of common ground in British public opinion on India which consisted in the belief that , with a few adjustments , British rule could be made , and remain , acceptable to Indians for ever , and that differences of opinion were to a considerable extent about how this was to be done . |
| 53 | There is a rough division between east and west which became apparent in Peter Webster 's study of Severn Valley wares found on the Wall ( 1972 ) , for , although there is not a great quantity it has a definite western bias , which suggests that the means of transport was by the sea . |
| 54 | inspectors from the Department of Transport were at the scene |
| 55 | Various areas of reform were on the agenda ; Lini , himself an Anglican priest , was known to be concerned at the proliferation of fundamentalist sects and cults in the country . |
| 56 | Much of this loss of population was from the inner , high density areas of the large cities . |
| 57 | And yesterday , Tom , now 76 , and the piece of bomb were among the highlights of an exhibition celebrating the Dunkirk spirit at Middlesbrough 's Dorman Museum . |
| 58 | Advocates of localization were in the same position as the explorers of the sixteenth century ; they knew there was something out there but they did n't know where it was or what it might look like . |
| 59 | A different kind of continuity was in the nature of news . |
| 60 | At about 3 in the afternoon , the first newspapers announcing England 's declaration of war were on the streets . |