Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then my mum said , in a timorous voice , ‘ Do you mean Nelly Woodhouse that was with the Guardian Building Society ? ’ |
| 2 | July 17 was towards the end of the summer term when the evenings seemed to last for ever . |
| 3 | His arguments for such a conclusion are , first , the narrow one that the appellant 's complaint of 15 July 1989 was about the police officers ' fabricating the interview notes — whereas the inquiry was principally into the possibility of their having , following his complaint , removed them from Warwick Crown Court . |
| 4 | He made an immediate impression and by 4 December 1640 was on the first committee . |
| 5 | And it was his concern for Silvia that was at the root of his anger . |
| 6 | Five hours later Mr Humble was at the end of his tether . |
| 7 | King Hassan II was at the airport to welcome the Shah and Queen when their boeing touched down at Marrakesh on 22 January 1979 . |
| 8 | A stone found in the enclosure round Kintour farmhouse in September 1881 was in the Kildalton Castle collection . |
| 9 | Three of the Birmingham Six were in the public gallery to hear the judgement . |
| 10 | The Cabinet paper circulated on 26 September 1946 was in the Prime Minister 's name but was imbued with the Cabinet Secretary 's philosophy . |
| 11 | Jones had been doing research funded by the US Department of Energy ( DOE ) since May 1986 , had hints of neutrons and by September 1988 was in the process of starting to use a neutron detector sensitive enough to measure their energies and determine whether indeed they came from fusion . |
| 12 | Despite there being no fractions in their arithmetic and observational difficulties due to frequent early morning mists and much cloud in the rainy season , they ultimately attained an accuracy in the determination of the synodic period of Venus that was of the order of one day in five thousand years , that is roughly one part in two million . |
| 13 | Invented in 1589 , when Elizabeth I was on the throne of England , the ‘ stocking frame ’ came into use when the demand for stockings was from both sexes , and it signalled the birth of a great industry , although recognition of its revolutionary potential was slow in coming , and William Lee died penniless in Paris . |
| 14 | As can be seen , MCC was already at risk on the basis of its March 2989 accounts after its £2bn of US acquisitions and by March 1990 was in the weakest 5 per cent of UK companies ( PAS-score = 5 ) , in fact with a risk rating of 4 . |