Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [was/were] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum What about story was a bit like that . |
| 2 | That would be a fundamental change from the practice of Labour Governments of which the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook was a member . |
| 3 | What for Camus was a source of strength is , for me , a source of neurosis . |
| 4 | The presence of a mixed Serb and Croat population who had lived and worked together for centuries was a factor of some importance in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , when Serb and Croat deputies in the Austrian parliament worked together , first for the reunion of Dalmatia and Croatia , and later for the creation of a South Slav state . |
| 5 | The outcome of these parallel strands of support for municipalization was a growth , especially from the early 1890s , of municipal ownership of public utilities such as gas and water supplies and public transport , and municipal provision of such services as libraries , museums , baths , wash-houses and improved street lighting and refuse disposal . |
| 6 | A poem for Lucy was a message in a bottle hurled into a turquoise ocean . |
| 7 | His first game for Arsenal was a nightmare , and before the 1930 Cup final he told Chapman how anxious he was Arsenal should win , so he would justify his record fee . |
| 8 | He had once said that he did n't know whether his passion for water-power was a result of meanness or had some deeper Freudian significance . |
| 9 | That stuff about exercise was a bit of a fibette , I admit — I 'm sure I 'd collapse from jogger 's nipple climbing into my Nikes . |
| 10 | The February play was A Thriller of the Year , with an all-female cast our original choice of play was A Death Trap we could n't cast it because of a lack of men auditioning . |
| 11 | Connections quickly came to the fore in the application , however , for Kinnoull pointed out that the wife of the minister of Tippermuir was a lady ‘ for whom the Dowager Lady Findlater has a particular regard ’ , and she was herself the niece of Sir James Grant 's uncle , Sir William Dunbar . |
| 12 | According to this view , the working classes had more to unite them than divide them , and the separateness of states was a piece of mystification which helped to perpetuate capitalism . |
| 13 | Mysterious indigo with its connotations of protection was a substance and colour full of symbolism in the distant places of Arabia . |
| 14 | And to think , ’ I say , brushing mud from a faraway marsh off my boots , ‘ that I knew you when your idea of power-dressing was a tool-belt round your hips . ’ |
| 15 | The manor of Cosmeston was a sub-manor of the manor of Sully which , in turn , was held from the lord of Glamorgan . |
| 16 | er they also brought out some a good range of lighting fittings er , which you still see about again used well I , I remember putting one , you saying about putting lights at different levels , erm a staircase which was in a new house which was architect design and built and erm , the staircase was er more or less centrally in the house rather than be stuck against one wall and so it had a well and down the centre of the well we strung one of these lights with er five different glasses suspended on black flex five black flexes and erm these were shades made of heavy glass er the glass was n't painted it was coloured all the way through , er and erm they were called er Chelsea , Chelsea glasswork and erm these each had a lamp inside them well er about three inch diameter cylinders actually about eight inches long and they were hung at different heights er so that the lip behind the staircase and also of course there 's a staircase being where it was , it was in the centre of er , a , quite a large hallway for modern stand for modern standards and erm it of course was a feature of the hall as well . |
| 17 | ( In the days of Bertrand de Born , Aquitaine of course was a province of the English crown ; Eleanor of Aquitaine , the princess whose marriage to an English King brought this about , is one of the femmes fatales of the Cantos ; and Richard Coeur de Lion , trying to make good his claim to all this part of France , was killed at Chalus — a place in this area to which the Cantos refer repeatedly in connection with the King 's death . ) |
| 18 | Medieval law was indeed profoundly conservative , and most medieval vassals took it for granted that the right of resistance was a law which could not be abrogated . |
| 19 | Speaking from their Isle of Man home where they live as tax exiles , Sangster 's wife , Susan , firmly denied that the sale of Manton was a result of her husband 's reduced stature in the bloodstock world . |
| 20 | What I had seen of Czechoslovakia was a society which encouraged a miserable waste of human resources . |
| 21 | This appearance of naïvety was a mask ; it was his revenge on lesser people than himself . |
| 22 | By May 1341 all he had got out of parliament was a resolution to collect the rest of the ninth and an offer of an extra 10,000 sacks of wool ; no new money was granted . |
| 23 | It is relevant to note that the river at the point of crossing was a yard deep and three yards wide . |
| 24 | Jesus of Nazareth was a man whose divine authority was clearly proven to you by all the miracles and wonders which God performed through him . |
| 25 | Kepler 's concern with the formation of images was a response to a practical problem . |
| 26 | Here the decor by Miss Judy Nicholls of Images was a Renaissance theme , with gold-fringed swags and banners of ruby silk tied back with gold rope , and a canopy of sparkling lights suspended over the dance floor . |
| 27 | Drinking the Hottest Cup of Tea was a competition reserved for the women . |
| 28 | In a typically devious climb-down they announced they would bombard the island in future on only the odd dates of the month , as though the rain of shells was a form of parking restriction . |
| 29 | Neither of the lecturers concerned was willing to agree to a change at this late date ; when one of them finally gave in , the alternative proposed by the unpopular head of department was a slot already occupied by one of Andrew 's lectures . |
| 30 | ‘ getting rid of Rocky was a crap move by Wilko ’ ( in fact I just said it ! ! ) |