Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] was [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Therefore , I must say that Wedgwood 's response was like a breath of fresh air . |
| 2 | Noah 's faith was in a God Who makes promises and keeps them . |
| 3 | Sunday 's play was of a high standard with two semi finals going to extra time , then penalties . |
| 4 | But Elizabeth 's presence had been chilling ; Mary 's presence was of a different quality . |
| 5 | Signe 's apartment was in a small block built over a row of shops . |
| 6 | She knew Ken 's mind was on a new arrangement of ‘ I Do n't Mean Maybe ’ . |
| 7 | A Sechem 's mind was like a sponge , soaking up information until a connection could be made between apparently unrelated areas of scientific fact . |
| 8 | Yanto 's mind was in a turmoil when he reached home that night . |
| 9 | Grant 's mind was in a whirl as he sought desperately for a way out . |
| 10 | Laura 's mind was in a whirl as she gazed at him silently for a moment . |
| 11 | Concurrent Computer Corp saw third quarter net profit up 15.2% at $1.0m on sales up 2.2% at $56.1m ; net for the nine months was $2.7m , down from $60.1m , but last year 's figure was after a $61.1m gain on early repayment of debt , on sales off 3.1% at $164.8m . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | The plaintiff 's car was in a collision with the defendant 's car caused by the defendant 's negligence . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | De Béville 's proposal was for a landing in west Sussex between Littlehampton and Chichester harbour . |
| 19 | He was struck silent for quite some seconds , as if ignorance of Faye Russell 's work was on a par with believing that the earth was flat . |
| 20 | In an extreme case such as the Yorkshire estate village of Thrybergh the squire 's hall was in a class of its own and the parsonage was far superior to the rest . |
| 21 | Mrs Berry 's nose was like a red berry ? |
| 22 | The coach work was carried on in the trimming shop which was in Friary Lane but , from then on , Farr 's business was on a downward path , finally closing in 1929 . |
| 23 | A report released on Aug. 2 by a UN team assigned to assess damage resulting from the 1980-88 war with Iraq [ see p. 38309 ] found that " the damage inflicted on the country 's infrastructure was of a magnitude and nature that will require several years of repair or reconstruction " . |
| 24 | The letter that had caught Anne 's attention was from a girl who said she earned one pound seventeen shillings and sixpence a week . |
| 25 | Carson 's bathrobe was on a hook behind the door . |
| 26 | ‘ One of the appointments we found in Miss Morgan 's diary was with a Miss Huntley . |
| 27 | But although he might not be bright , Balor 's head was on a level with Floy and Snodgrass as they sat astride the two horses and he was twice the size of either of them . |
| 28 | The child 's father was on a train . |
| 29 | Jane Pargeter 's flat was in a huge and expensive mansion block on the north side of Clapham Common . |
| 30 | Kuchma told parliament that Ukraine 's economy was in a worse state than that of any other former Soviet republic . |