Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | F7,000 million of this was to be repaid over six years ( with a three-year grace period ) , while the remainder was to be paid back by the end of 1989 . |
| 32 | The remainder was to be raised by the issuing of one-year bonds which would be redeemed by smaller tax increases than originally proposed . |
| 33 | Half the country 's state enterprises were to be privatized by end-1993 , a large proportion of the remainder was to be converted into wholly state-owned joint stock companies , competition was to be promoted , agriculture modernized , a sound banking system created , and a modern tax and budgetary system implemented . |
| 34 | Under the agreement half of the Chimanes forest was designated a " permanent production zone " i.e. available for " sustainable forestry " , while the remainder was to be a research area . |
| 35 | The unity was in the past and resided in the present and our devotion to Jesus . |
| 36 | The shield was of blue enamel . |
| 37 | Now the suite was in my name , so I was charged with possession of all these drugs , and with assault , and with a lot of other charges like operating a dive , running a disorderly house and all silly charges which were dropped the following day . |
| 38 | For studies of ICJ transit , with this method , a value of 1 indicated that all the isotope was in the first 4 cm of ileum ; a value of 6 indicated that all isotope was in the caecum or colon . |
| 39 | Two men thought to be about 19 struck when the 18year-old was on his way from work in Crown Street , Darlington , with the firm 's takings . |
| 40 | So in that case all we can say is that the link was between Nick |
| 41 | ‘ The Prince was on a dahabeeyah last night coming back from Karnak and someone fell overboard . ’ |
| 42 | Angry though the prince was about this , he was still trying to repair the damage which had been done to Russo-Bulgarian relations when Roumelian irredentists took the game out of his hands . |
| 43 | The Prince was in his cups , yet I thought it strange because the porter from Godstowe Priory did not arrive until the early hours of the morning . ’ |
| 44 | The Prince was in Swindon to see the work of local youngsters taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh 's Award Scheme . |
| 45 | A breath on the flames , and there would be fire from end to end of the march ; and the Prince was in urgent but still friendly correspondence with King Henry in the effort to settle the dissensions peacefully and without affront to either Welsh or English honour . |
| 46 | And this afternoon literally everything connected with the base was on the move . |
| 47 | An artillery shell struck here at breakfast time , but by now the base was on red alert , its soldiers under cover . |
| 48 | The direction was for her to decide , not for him . |
| 49 | When the original phase of the development of the airfield as an industrial park was revealed , the provision was for 150 acres , building was not to extend near to the valuable runway , but it was considered to be a deterrent to property sales , so the runway would be removed . |
| 50 | Only £5 million of the provision was in cash and the rest could be recouped from asset sales in 1993 , according to the new chief executive , James Leng , but because the tax charge is only partly affected earnings per share fell from 18.82p to 3.35p . |
| 51 | Suggestions that the split was in part a generational conflict were reinforced by figures which indicated that , of the Takeshita faction 's total legislative strength of 109 members , Obuchi was supported by only 19 members in the House of Representatives ( the lower chamber , where members tended to be younger than in the upper chamber ) but by all 42 members in the House of Councillors . |
| 52 | The soil formation of the ridge was of crucial importance . |
| 53 | The Maggot referred to himself as a ‘ good old country boy ’ which description provoked Ellen , who could not stand the sight of him , to comment that John Maggovertski was to country what the serpent was to Eden . |
| 54 | Even when , sixteen years later in 1833 , he saw in trade unionism the instrument through which to establish industrial democracy , the change was to be painless , to steal upon the country unaware , ‘ like a thief in the night ’ . |
| 55 | Besides , in some ways the change was for the better . |
| 56 | With phosphatidylethanolamine most of the cholesterol ( 85% ) was in the vesicular fraction , while with phosphatidylserine most of the cholesterol was in the non-vesicular fractions ( 80% ) . |
| 57 | With a saturated fatty acid ( palmitic acid ) in the sn-1 position and the polyunsaturated arachidonic acid in sn-2 position most of the cholesterol was in the non-vesicular phase . |
| 58 | With a saturated fatty acid in the sn-1 position ( palmitic acid ) and arachidonic acid in sn-2 position most of the cholesterol was in the non-vesicular phase . |
| 59 | It is noteworthy that with phosphatidylserine most of the cholesterol was in the more stable ( non-vesicular carrier ) . |
| 60 | The bulb was in a little ventilation window above the door . |