Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | During the mid-sixties the strongest pressures on the profession 's practice were in the area of conveyancing . |
| 32 | The meeting at Rutherglen for the choice of commissioner with the authority of the Burgh 's vote was on the evening of 20th May at seven pm and the Dixon agents were so keen to keep their influence to the very end and not let Kirkman Finlay 's agents have an opportunity to exert influence that they were hard pressed to get the Councillors to the meeting at seven pm . |
| 33 | Moreover , Dudek 's scholarship was of a more penetrating kind than anything under which Leonard had yet sat , or was to sit , as became that of a Doctor of Letters from Columbia University . |
| 34 | The Headmaster 's Study was on the first floor next to Four . |
| 35 | Walker , a former employee of the ARC , said the council 's research was of a high standard but said ‘ as a ratepayer one would be worried that such standards of excellence would be properly managed by the ARC . ’ |
| 36 | The plaintiff 's car was in a collision with the defendant 's car caused by the defendant 's negligence . |
| 37 | But Frederick Bissett detested walking , and because his Sara 's car was in the garage , and his own car sat outside overnight , he condemned himself to five minutes of scraping the ice from the windscreen and the back window and to revving the engine , blowing grey fumes away down Lilac Gardens . |
| 38 | All he wanted to do was to see if Connon 's car was in the garage . |
| 39 | Then Rain 's car was round the bend and the house vanished . |
| 40 | Miguel 's jeep was outside the villa when Shelley happened to look out . |
| 41 | Moreover , useful as the clergy 's and particularly Winchelsey 's aid was to the magnates in the summer of 1297 , the laity had been encouraged to think that the clergy , especially because they did not fight , should bear a significant share of the financial costs of defence . |
| 42 | She knew Marek 's bedroom was at the back of the house . |
| 43 | Sarah 's bedroom was at the other end of the landing , next to her brother 's . |
| 44 | The master bedroom looked out over one side of the front door and Benny 's bedroom was on the other . |
| 45 | Last Fri last Wednesday and she got the trolley like and when she pulled the trolley a woman 's handbag was on the trolley and on the you know what was it ? |
| 46 | Childeric 's brooch was in the style of that of a high-standing imperial official . |
| 47 | A further refinement was that the entrance to the town 's harbour was under the furthest-out of the bridges , so that entry and exit thereto could be denied at any time by the castle 's occupants , with a great boom to be lowered . |
| 48 | Paul 's ring was on the bedside cabinet , where she 'd placed it , and her handbag … |
| 49 | One is how far advanced the Labour Party 's thinking was on the nature of planning it might undertake if it took power at the end of the second world war . |
| 50 | Military expenditure therefore absorbed 70 per cent of revenues , and over half the country 's industry was at a standstill , the remainder working below capacity . |
| 51 | This year 's run was on a sunny Sunday in early April and a record number of JM runners took part to raise money for the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund . |
| 52 | While Brunner 's theology was for a time regarded , especially in Britain and America , as more ‘ moderate ’ than Barth 's , and therefore preferable , he must now be regarded as the less radical and less creative of the two . |
| 53 | Singer 's question was about the international system and national units . |
| 54 | De Béville 's proposal was for a landing in west Sussex between Littlehampton and Chichester harbour . |
| 55 | Ohly 's proposal was for an assessment by a special task force before any further substantial commitments were made in Indo-China but , coming as it did , a month after the US had made its half-a-billion-dollar commitment , it was probably too late . |
| 56 | The ship 's cat was in every way appropriate to the Reach . |
| 57 | There were two fireplaces , one at each end of the classroom , two large cupboards and the teacher 's desk was on the north wall . |
| 58 | John Pilkington 's home was near the duchy lordship of Wakefield and Ralph Snaith had close links with a leading duchy family , the Savilles of Thornhill . |
| 59 | Maybe it was a good thing I did n't see Darrowby ; Helen 's home was near the bus route and I dropped off well short of the town . |
| 60 | Hilda 's home was near the convent , and the tube train seemed to be boring a hole into the past , bearing her inexorably back to the source of her purest happiness and pain . |