Example sentences of "[noun] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A prisoner told me he thought Napoleon was with them , but he was n't certain . ’ |
| 2 | He also expected support from Russia , but the tsar was too preoccupied with the affairs of Europe , where Napoleon was at the height of his powers , and Adam Czartoryski , the Russian foreign minister , advised negotiations with the Turks , rather than war . |
| 3 | Napoleon was at this time trying to push the Russians into war with Turkey , and Czartoryski , aware of this , had no wish to see Russia involved on Serbia 's side in a conflict with the sultan . |
| 4 | This confirmed intra and extrahepatic duct dilatation in 31 patients ( 77% ) , cholecystolithiasis in 19 of the 32 patients ( 60% ) in whom the gall bladder was in place . |
| 5 | A SCUBA diver was in hospital last night after surviving a 20-minute battle with a man-eating shark . |
| 6 | and your instrument panel started showing that the wheels had fallen off and one wheel was on fire first thing we had to think was are the reading correct ! |
| 7 | The wheel was in commercial use until 1926 , and since the 19605 has been in operation as a tourist attraction , maintained by the Manx Government . |
| 8 | The wheel was in active service from 1960 , after a long journey by train from Argyll to Dorset . |
| 9 | Disillusioned with the ministry before he had even entered it , Vincent now said damningly that to trade in religion was on a par with trading in art or tulip bulbs . |
| 10 | Wilson , whose rejection of religion was on account of its encouragement of so much evil . |
| 11 | Religion was to Marx an illusion , a fantasy created by men as a result of the class struggle . |
| 12 | The effect of war on religion was among the most profound of these influences . |
| 13 | Above all , Mosley had tried to reassure the country that persecution of race or religion was against the fundamental tenets of Fascism as it had evolved in England . |
| 14 | which was wrong , Valerie was over the moon really that she got engaged to this fellow , but he was much older than er Michelle and I , and er he did n't want to settle down |
| 15 | When the old Roman city was revived and became London again , from the late ninth century on , one of its prime functions in the eyes of King Alfred and his successors was as a bulwark against the Danes ; his boroughs had a major defensive role to play , and London was the greatest of them — one of the very few cities of this age which came wholly to fill a Roman enceinte . |
| 16 | Wally was in the band a couple of years . |
| 17 | It was found that key characteristics was by far the most popular strategy , followed by realist strategy . |
| 18 | If a rating or precepting authority over-rated or over-precepted , the remedy was in the hands of the electorate … |
| 19 | On his second attempt , Cadfael made straight for Upton to enquire where their younger shepherd was to be found , and set out stoutly to tramp the further mile to a fold high and dry above the water-meadows . |
| 20 | The shepherd was on his feet , jacket slung over his shoulder , gazing skywards , his cap pulled low to shade his eyes . |
| 21 | His disappointment was by no means an isolated example . |
| 22 | She 's married to an Englishman ; they live in Norwich , ’ he explained quietly , and then his eyes lowered momentarily to her mouth , and that one glance was like a caress . |
| 23 | I had no reason to suppose that the letter was anything but genuine — it was on the shipping company 's notepaper , and , insofar as such recollections are of any value , the signature at first glance was in keeping with the signature I remembered vaguely from my days at Upper Thames Street . |
| 24 | Secondly , that I think Ryedale was under the impression that Policy E two would n't affect local authorities ' choice of allocated sites but that it was a policy to apply outside of developing units and those sites we wish to allocate in local plan and not that was going to restrict our choice , in our case in those sites . |
| 25 | Danny Kelly , writing in the NME , said experiencing Gedge 's songs was like ‘ overhearing one side of a telephone conversation or catching edited highlights of an argument . ’ |
| 26 | What it means to BPExploration was at the centre of last year 's R&D strategy review . |
| 27 | If , for example , a horseman was in the field and the ploughing was going on extremely well , his stetches coming out neatly , with dead-straight furrows and a level ‘ top ’ , his mate sometimes called out in recognition of his prowess : |
| 28 | One of the principal figures within the Association was to be Henry Newbolt , imperialist poet , celebrant of the mystique of the public school , future chairman of the Board of Education Committee which reported on the state of English in 1921 , and — like Haldane — a supporter of the national efficiency group in its aims of planning imperial policy , improving education , and recapturing commercial prosperity . |
| 29 | They constitute an acknowledgment by the delegates , committee and officers that the Association was for the time being inadequately organised and funded for undertaking major tasks on the national scene . |
| 30 | One such association was with R.A.F. Medmenham , the origins of which perhaps date to the early part of the last War when Danesfield House at Medmenham was taken over by the R.A.F. as its photographic unit , although the first reference in the Minutes is October 1953 . |