Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] was [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Joyce and Virginia Woolf were dead , Charles Maurras was a member of the Petain government and would soon be imprisoned for treason , Ezra Pound was about to be indicted on similar charges ( although Eliot refused to assist the Federal Bureau of Investigation in their inquiries about him ) . |
| 2 | The inquest into the Greenwich defeat was not to be a debate about the future direction of socialism in multi-cultural inner-city areas ; it was to be an appeal to homophobia . |
| 3 | The Government may believe that once the Kincardine and Deeside election was out on the road — somewhat unsuccessfully for the Government — those promises might be out of sight and out of mind , but they are still in the mind of the Opposition . |
| 4 | He told shareholders he would forego his salary until the Barratt group was back in the black . |
| 5 | So Saturday evening was back to the papers and then back home , usually about seven , mostly walking because you could n't afford the penny for the tram , no ha'penny fares , just a penny , w . |
| 6 | By the early 1560s the Berkshire trade was unquestionably in the doldrums when the Privy Council admonished Reading clothiers against putting men off work by ceasing to trade . |
| 7 | Dr Varmus said winning the Nobel Prize was not in his mind when he and Dr Bishop published their research . |
| 8 | However , the Locksfields firm was not without serious difficulties . |
| 9 | Now at about the time that that letter was written on the twenty second of October er Mr had the meeting at the National Westminster Bank that had been arranged between himself and a Mrs and it is clear from er this meeting that the bank would no longer er , given that the Frinton property was not to be offered as security , prepared to offer the sum , the substantial sums that they had originally agreed to do and they were now only prepared to offer very much smaller sums and the plaintiff 's case is that the only way that they were going to be able to proceed to complete on this matter was er by selling their homes , their family home at and it is the plaintiff 's case , certainly in relation to er the losses that they have sustained as a result of the breach of contract , alleged in this case , that er if they had not been forced to go ahead to complete on this deal they would not have been required to sell their family home . |
| 10 | Our client had it in telephone conversation with the bank on ninth of September only proceeded with the proposed purchase on the express understanding that Frinton property was not to be included particularly as his father 's companion a Mrs eighty years of age , was residing in the property and owned a half share of it . |
| 11 | Denis Law was reportedly on board the train but kept a careful distance from the fight . |
| 12 | But Azhag and Nagash had one thing in common , a lust for conquest and power that the Orc warlord was now in a position to fulfil . |
| 13 | The England captain was out for eight — his middle stump uprooted — as a second innings collapse to 34 for three left his side struggling to avoid a 3-0 Test series whitewash . |
| 14 | But the Willowfield man was not to be caught and Paddy had to be content with second place with Lyle fading to finish fourth some 15 seconds behind third-placed man Greg Luke ( North Belfast ) . |
| 15 | Enhancement of the NHS domain was certainly at the core of the initiative , perhaps because many informed observers thought that members of health authorities would , in the future , become both more representative of the population served and better able to make local management innovations in service . |
| 16 | William Darling was out of bed in a second . |
| 17 | Luckily he was able to drive out and the Middleton in Teesdale driver was soon in contention for 1300cc honours . |
| 18 | His former Coronation Street co-star was n't in evidence when Roy 's stage play Feed had its premiere in Bolton , Lancs , this week . |
| 19 | Beijing University was not to be outdone , naturally , by its Shanghai colleagues . |
| 20 | The Atlantic crossing was over by 12 July and the Orynthia had arrived in Demerara , a one-time Dutch settlement which had been absorbed into British Guiana in 1831 . |
| 21 | The autonomy granted to the Atlantic coast was only in its early stages , but that too was an acknowledgement that everything could not be run directly from Managua . |
| 22 | Merseyside Coroner Roy Barter was also at the scene along with a Home Office pathologist . |
| 23 | The Hamburg ship was almost on top of us , and the ship 's captain shouted the order to stop engines , but it was too late . |
| 24 | Zimbabwe 's second innings began badly when Grant Flower was leg-before to Manoj Prabhakar 's fourth delivery with only two runs on the board . |
| 25 | The Punch and Judy booth was far from crowded , due to the overwhelming preference of the day excursionists for Pierrots , Uncle Mack and the Bohemia concert party . |
| 26 | However the Bradford striker was not to be denied on the half hour . |
| 27 | However the Bradford striker was not to be denied on the half hour . |
| 28 | However , the victory in the Lok Sabha election was far from emphatic and owed much to the so-called " sympathy vote " aroused by the assassination of the party 's leader , Rajiv Gandhi , soon after voting had started in mid-May [ see pp. 38175-76 ] . |
| 29 | William Dunlop of Dunure Mains was also of Ayrshire farming stock . |
| 30 | The meaning of the October Revolution was then to be explained to anyone who bothered to turn up . |