Example sentences of "was a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed New England was a battleground in the eighteenth century between Puritanism and Enlightenment philosophy . |
| 2 | In 1948 the Netherlands , Belgium and Luxembourg formed Benelux which was a CU in industrial goods . |
| 3 | But the scenic grandeur of the mountains was a tonic in itself , and the luxury of those splendid C.P.R. hotels made a memorable holiday . |
| 4 | There was a crack in the deep , old-fashioned wash-basin and a long , red hair was fixed in the crack and floated out in the water as the basin filled . |
| 5 | There was a crack in the woodwork by the door of the manager 's office . |
| 6 | Some like Sunday long ago , the child Simon had crept up to his Indian step-grandmother when she was asleep in the same wheelchair and thrown a blanket over her , shouting that she was a canary in a cage . |
| 7 | There was a hum in the air like radio static ; I took it to be his voice , and I made answers when the static paused . |
| 8 | By the time we got back there was a marquee in the garden . |
| 9 | It was a chance in a million that I came through it all alive . ’ |
| 10 | Lifeboat coxswain Dave Kennett , who went out to the yacht , said : ‘ It was a chance in a million they were seen . |
| 11 | It was a chance in a million , and if he did not grasp it , one of his competitors would . |
| 12 | ‘ It was a chance in a million that we found each other but we have n't looked back since . |
| 13 | ‘ When I was a boy in Harlan County we were real poor and every morning I used to wake up and look out of my bedroom window at this mountain called Gray 's Knob . |
| 14 | When I was a boy in Salzburg two or three hundred people might hear a concert , listening to something that the great majority of people outside the concert-hall had no knowledge or understanding of . |
| 15 | And then he did something else he had not done for decades , in fact since he was a boy in his beloved Poland . |
| 16 | Talk of a bypass through Hailing because of the volume of traffic recalls memories of when I was a boy in the late 20 's and early 30's . |
| 17 | I wondered if there was a boy in fact , and whether Hereward knew something about him , ’ Laura finished off . |
| 18 | The " anarchist Prince " , Petr Kropotkin , who was a boy in the Corps des Pages in the late 1850s and a revolutionary in exile by the time the reign ended , thought Alexander suffered from a split personality : " two different men lived in him , both strongly developed , struggling with each other … |
| 19 | Rob has been interested in art since he was a boy in his native Porthmadog . |
| 20 | came from the hospital to do her midwifery and there was a boy in Wrexham Hospital he 'd give up the permanent job to go to The Yale |
| 21 | There was a darkness in his eyes , anger simmering just beneath the surface . |
| 22 | By the 14th century there was a mill in the vicinity , then called Slaughter Mill , and by the 18th century , this had been separated from the manorial estate . |
| 23 | There was a door in each wall . |
| 24 | It was a centre in Peterborough who immediately urged us to come down and have a look round . |
| 25 | There was a wildness in his eyes that had n't been there before . |
| 26 | ‘ Ummmm … there was a split in the fact that one person had one record label and the other person had another , and he also had KLF as well . |
| 27 | I was a pathologist in Zimbabwe from 1983 to 1985 , and saw many tissue specimens of lung cancer . |
| 28 | As you might expect , there was a bulge in the distribution of replies , with a bias towards non-SF reading . |
| 29 | It was a rebuke in itself . |
| 30 | Donovan , the folk guru who was a git in the Sixties with grooves such as ‘ Goo Goo Barabajagal ’ and ‘ Mellow Yellow ’ , has come back into vogue . |