Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the old Roman city was revived and became London again , from the late ninth century on , one of its prime functions in the eyes of King Alfred and his successors was as a bulwark against the Danes ; his boroughs had a major defensive role to play , and London was the greatest of them — one of the very few cities of this age which came wholly to fill a Roman enceinte . |
| 2 | The hammering of her heart in her ears was like a drum beating . |
| 3 | MUSIC from the 17th and 18th centuries was on the programme when the ‘ Kist of Musick ’ Chamber ensemble visited the University . |
| 4 | This was done , and a connection which had existed unbroken for more than four centuries was at an end . |
| 5 | One or your down-fine hairs was on the pillow : I picked it up like gold-dust-sweet relic ! |
| 6 | My first practical experience in the use of homoeopathic remedies was in the treatment of a child with croup . |
| 7 | ( One of the FPR 's main demands was for the return home of all Rwandan refugees . ) |
| 8 | When I took my practical working examinations , making tree ties was worth a lot of marks and considered so vital that candidates who failed their tying failed tree planting , however well they did otherwise . |
| 9 | One of Modigliani 's stone heads was on a table below the painting of Picasso and the contrast between the true thing and the true-to-life thing nearly split me . |
| 10 | His name on her lips was like a plea , and with one swift movement he gathered her into his arms , pressing her against his powerful chest . |
| 11 | The delight of the Gloucester supporters was in no way diminished by the fact that Barnes had missed three easy kicks at goal , any one of which would have wrapped up the game for Bath . |
| 12 | During the Twenties and Thirties the tram service gradually expanded until , by August Bank Holiday 1933 , every one of the 156 cars was on the road . |
| 13 | The last increase in interest in diesel fleet cars was in the boom years of the mid-to-late Eighties . |
| 14 | His knowledge of airships was at a premium , and his reputation had been enhanced by his patented invention of a carburettor that could burn hydrogen which was otherwise wasted on airship operations . |
| 15 | One of the few British medals at the last Olympics was in the Star two-man keelboat class , and our line-up for the 1992 Games in Barcelona is looking very strong in many of the ten different classes . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , and no doubt too slowly , illusions of grandeur were slowly given up and Britain 's incapacity to live with the superpowers was to a degree accepted . |
| 17 | The emphasis in these speeches was on the need for unity and the avoidance of dissent in radio programmes . |
| 18 | Initial searches for homology between atk and other known gene sequences was through the EMBL nucleotide sequence database . |
| 19 | Piers was in the living-room as they walked in , half naked , the top button of his faded jeans undone . |
| 20 | The court said that the decision whether to close the schools was within the area of discretion left to the authority . |
| 21 | Eighteen months was like a lifetime . |
| 22 | Taken together the expansion of the middle-class suburbs was from about 28 , inhabitants in 1871 to over three-quarters of a million ( 808,000 ) just after World War I. The other large suburbs , of mixed population , though with working-class majorities , experienced similar trajectories : Lichtenberg grew from 4,700 in 1871 to 145,000 in 1919 , Rixdorf/ Neukolln from 8,145 to 262,000 , and Spandau from 20,500 to 95,500.10 The total population growth of just these large above-mentioned mainly working-class districts was of the order of 1.3 million from 1871 to World War I , a phenomenon which taken together with the revolutionary uprising of 1918 must have been frightening to Berlin 's middle classes in a manner hardly imaginable today . |
| 23 | In the closing years of the nineteenth century , just as the eastern Germans were leaving the land and deserting the east , at the very time that the Polish population of the border districts was on the rise , the theoretical and practical policies of both the Polenpolitik and the Kulturkampf were hardening around the drive towards industrial and imperial expansion — if not overseas , which was almost impossible — then in the eastern borderlands . |
| 24 | One of today 's letterbombs was to a farmer with convictions for cruelty to animals , the other to a cat breeder . |
| 25 | The sticking point for purists was over the balance to be struck between state power and voluntary efforts . |
| 26 | The V-1 Buzz-Bomb assault on London began on June 12 , 1944 and Sugar 's first attack against their launching sites was on the night of June 24 when it attacked a site at Prouville with P/O G C Skelton in command . |
| 27 | The first time I ever saw one of the keys was in the Chatila camp in Beirut in 1977 . |
| 28 | The fact that the efficiency of rivets was in no way improved by capping them with precious metal provides another indication of the limitations of material factors in accounting for technical innovation . |
| 29 | The release of PGE 3 in eicosapentaenoic acid fed rats was below the detection limit of our combined HPLC-RIA method . |
| 30 | The question of how to deal with errors was at the heart of the debates in the central commission in the twelve months that preceded the Council . |