Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Can one argue that the bees ' dance is as much a causal consequence of this earlier experience as the bruise was of the bump ? |
| 32 | Speed was of the essence and manpower was limited . |
| 33 | And a that surprises me and concerns me because when this went to District Council 's Environment and Planning Committee first of all speed was of the essence . |
| 34 | Up to the early years of the twentieth century , the typical pattern of foreign investment was of the portfolio type , where private capitalists individually , or through financial organizations , would invest funds in such foreign enterprises such as railways or mines or trading companies , and simply collect the dividends as they came in . |
| 35 | The salon was in the Ismailia quarter where all the best hotels were . |
| 36 | And unfortunately , since she could actually hear the machine from the bedroom , it meant that the air-conditioning was on the blink once more ! |
| 37 | The highest death toll was on the islands of Kutubdia , Maheshkali , Sandwip and Chakori in the south-east . |
| 38 | An RAF Warrant Officer in the Medical Administration branch , this Veteran was in the war from the start , helping to set up a field hospital . |
| 39 | Armed or otherwise , the Hooligan was in the headlines . |
| 40 | By 9.45 pm , 10.00 pm at the very latest , a full episode was in the can , complete with its opening and closing title graphics , all the incidental music , all optical and mechanical effect sequences , even the strange and weird electronic voices of such monsters as the Daleks and the Mechonoids . |
| 41 | so they refused to do it up , well the result was over the years the pot holes down to the sites got bigger and they 're so far off the road from |
| 42 | In the higher price range , the most notable result was for the El Greco ‘ Disrobing of Christ ’ ( lot 309 ) , a preparatory study for the work of that subject in Toledo Cathedral , which made a new record for the artist at £1.7 million ( $3.1 ; est. £1.5–2.5 million ) . |
| 43 | On the way , just before Andover , he shot Spicer in the back of the head and as a result was on the run from police for several weeks . |
| 44 | ‘ The trophy was in the shape of a wooded scroll with a quartz clock and a brass plate inscribed with the words , ‘ Presented to Joan Rawson by the Stockport & District Concert Secretaries at the 29th Command Show 1992 . ’ |
| 45 | A DEFENDANT on trial for a horrifying knife murder was on the run last night after walking out of the Old Bailey . |
| 46 | At last , after almost fifty years of problems , the Club was on the verge of a breakthrough , although at the time did not know it . |
| 47 | In such a case it was argued , following St Augustine , that since the soldier was in the service of his lord , it was the lord who must accept responsibility . |
| 48 | Irony was to the fore when in 1925 he wrote of the Russian Revolution , but behind it was a more important urge leading him to the poem ‘ Le Voyage ’ of his favourite Baudelaire . |
| 49 | The Conservative party in opposition was against the opening of the University , but now they claim they are four square behind it . |
| 50 | The reduction of British troops on the Continent was within the competence of the British Government : cutting back overseas garrisons was not so amenable to arbitrary decisions in Whitehall . |
| 51 | Her mind was on the gardener 's boy , |
| 52 | In the string , taking Shine On for a showpiece half-speed over five furlongs , riding home , her mind was on the implications of his message . |
| 53 | For a second his mind was off the ball , leaving it free for Patrick Lombard to belt in and whip it away , dribbling it for a few yards , then powering it to Mike , who , relishing his new freedom at Number Two , took it up field . |
| 54 | Former Prime Minister and leader of the Umma party Sadiq al-Mahdi was among the detainees released under an amnesty announced by Bashir as he opened a " National Conference on the Political System " in Khartoum held on April 29-May 2 . |
| 55 | Gaston was on the point of making her his heir . |
| 56 | When we were moving or when he thought a search was in the offing he 'd hide it in his underpants . |
| 57 | In the normal subjects the fasted mean serum APGPR concentration was at the detection limit of the assay but postprandially two peaks of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours after the start of the meal ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 58 | All her concentration was on the squirt . |
| 59 | Jane Leeson went into the photographic studio and told her husband that Lowell 's girlfriend was in the reception area . |
| 60 | But in England the financial department was on the way to becoming a formal institution . |