Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] was [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | When civilization was no better than barbarism , the whole experiment of humanity was at an end , and it was time to clean the slate . |
| 2 | This limited degree of representation was in an important sense imposed from above , rather than actively won through struggle from below , in the same way that the 1947 Constitution was imposed by the US occupation . |
| 3 | That situation lead to the proposed wealth tax being stillborn , although the machinery for collection was at an advanced stage , and offices had been constructed . |
| 4 | World cotton consumption was a record 86m bales , and the ratio of stocks to consumption was at an all-time low . |
| 5 | I live in France now , and I 'm married to a Frenchman , but my introduction to drama was through an amateur dramatic society in Stanmore , where we were living at one time . |
| 6 | Much of the data on the health effects of radiation has come from studying the surviving victims of the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs , where the Japanese people 's exposure to radiation was of an extremely large dose in a matter of seconds . |
| 7 | The car that drew up outside the villa at sunset was of an obsolete make , long in the bonnet , high on the wheels , cared for , faintly absurd , the kind of car that nowadays would be called vintage . |