Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [was/were] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The exception to this for Alison was Life business .
2 In goal for Arsenal was Welshman Dan Lewis , displacing Bill Harper , and Butler was back at centre-half in place of Roberts .
3 The most famous tin-glazed pottery of Spain was lustre pottery ; it was also exported and found its way into the wealthy households of medieval Europe .
4 MOVING INTO ITS purpose-built building at Florrenes Air Base , Belgium , at the end of July was Spitfire FR.XIV RM921/SG–57. coming to the end of a restoration programme that was started in 1986 , the fighter wears the colours and markings of Col Avi R A Lallemant , commanding Officer of 609 Sqn in 1944 .
5 Like The Beatles and the Stones and Talcy Malcy McLaren and Bernie ‘ Clash ’ Rhodes and just about everybody who 's had a smidgeon of cool in Britpop , two of Cud were art students .
6 He said the whole message of Huron was platform independence and the ability to develop applications in one environment , then port them to another .
7 However , we do know that the first import into Trinidad was Bhaluk Princess Barbella , imported by Mrs Margaret Wattley .
8 Taking pride of place with Galwey was fly-half Eric Elwood , who , playing in only his second international , displayed the cool head and maturity of a veteran .
9 One of the men who died at a processing plant in Hereford was fire fighter David Morris from Hereford .
10 The end of hostilities in Europe was boom time for the building societies .
11 What I certainly would n't see in Shetland were snow buntings carrying food in below the same boulders as the puffins , while their mates sang their lovely wild song from the top .
12 Most of the women on Martin were Youth Custody trainees [ YCs ] and they could be a real pain .
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