Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [pers pn] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each case it was a duty which was imposed on the judges in their capacity as judges of the superior courts and related to the administration of justice in those courts . |
| 2 | ( In that case it was a ‘ temporary postponement ’ of Bernstein 's Serenade , the original recording of which by the composer and Isaac Stern was still very much in the CBS catalogue . ) |
| 3 | In that case it was the administrator who was removed . |
| 4 | Even in that case it was the third complaint from a woman who had had her previous two met . |
| 5 | Above that level it was a question of deterrence , not war-fighting . |
| 6 | And in and actually in that programme it was a Nottingham fella who er was confronted with her |
| 7 | In this case it was a matter for local authorities . |
| 8 | In this case it was a combination of steam power and the proximity of the River Severn that allowed it to prosper to such a comparatively late date . |
| 9 | In this case it was a jury of 12 which , by its verdict , appeared to be commenting on the legitimacy of governmental action in attempting to mislead the Foreign Affairs Select Committee about the circumstances surrounding the sinking of the General Belgrano , an Argentinian warship , during the Falklands Campaign in 1982 . |
| 10 | In this case it was a book , entitled ‘ Andrew and Fergie — the newly weds ’ , this was handed over to for her good attendance in the four years which she had gone to Little Stonham Primary School . |
| 11 | And in this case it was no big deal , a company of soldier you want a company of soldiers to go to Little Rock ? |
| 12 | In this case it was the prolongation of war which gave an opportunity to men lacking landed ties in England to show how important their presence in France could be . |
| 13 | ‘ Clearly it operates against the person who is able to exercise the influence ( in this case it was the father ) and … it would operate against every … person who claimed under him with notice of the equity thereby created , or with notice of the circumstances from which the court infers the equity . |
| 14 | Clearly it operates against the person who is able to exercise the influence ( in this case it was the father ) and , in my judgment , it would operate against every volunteer who claimed under him , and also against every person who claimed under him with notice of the equity thereby created , or with notice of the circumstances from which the court infers the equity . |
| 15 | And they said , Well you know how to draw up your agenda , and you 'll have something that 's contentious , in this case it was the supply of stationery from three local stationers , from printi local printers . |
| 16 | Ana was no doubt used to having a chaperon as she was blind , and in this case it was the only way they would be allowed to leave the proximity of the hacienda . |
| 17 | And in this case it was an overwhelming support for the blue route . |
| 18 | On another side it was an assault upon the corruption of the highest truths ; against turning love of the Bible into bibliolatry , or creeds into scholastic definitions , or the sacrament into magic , or Popes and priests and bishops into a bureaucracy or a rigidity where structure becomes the end instead of the means ; or turning the Church into a social club . |
| 19 | In large part lack of consensus reflected differences in theoretical positions ; to some degree it was a consequence of the different interests of the departments within which economists were employed . |
| 20 | He had to remind himself that when she was in this mood she was a mistress of the single , agonized word , the mutely suffering glance . |
| 21 | In this dream I was the invisible observer of the terrace outside Francis 's house in the Abacos . |
| 22 | In this pub it was the dark emptiness , the isolated figures clutching their half-empty glasses , eyes transfixed by the jumble of images on the television screen high on the wall . |
| 23 | I do n't know what happened to the front entrance , but there was a basement underneath there and my first wife was dancing in Harvey Martin 's dance hall underneath , her pal and herself she , they 'd gone to this dance it was a dancing lesson on a Saturday night it was famous in those days Harvey Martin 's dance class er yes I |
| 24 | And er we used to look if we could see some on the side of the mountains from the distances you could pick it out with a pick them out with er with this telescope it was a heck of a good telescope , aye . |
| 25 | There used to be a woman sergeant in [ place ] who used to refer to the reserve men as ‘ dick-head reserve men ’ , ‘ fucking idiots ’ , till one day this reserve man says to her , ‘ See that man over there , before he came to this job he was a aircraft technician , [ name ] used to be a chief mechanic . |
| 26 | At one time the village was owned by the Wilberforce family and during this period it was a thriving community . |
| 27 | For this period he was the leader of the party which gave the Government nine-tenths of its majority , but he was only the third man in the hierarchy . |
| 28 | At this point I was a little drowsy and the weakness in my joints had increased . |
| 29 | At the front of this race it was a two horse race between Italian Guiseppe Fiorello and Frenchman Bernard Cazade . |
| 30 | At the front of this race it was a two horse race between Italian Guiseppe Fiorello and Frenchman Bernard Cazade . |