Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 A SCUBA diver was in hospital last night after surviving a 20-minute battle with a man-eating shark .
3 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 !
4 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 .
5 The wheel was in active service from 1960 , after a long journey by train from Argyll to Dorset .
6 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 .
7 Wilson , whose rejection of religion was on account of its encouragement of so much evil .
8 Religion was to Marx an illusion , a fantasy created by men as a result of the class struggle .
9 The effect of war on religion was among the most profound of these influences .
10 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 .
11 If a rating or precepting authority over-rated or over-precepted , the remedy was in the hands of the electorate …
12 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 .
13 The shepherd was on his feet , jacket slung over his shoulder , gazing skywards , his cap pulled low to shade his eyes .
14 His disappointment was by no means an isolated example .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 What it means to BPExploration was at the centre of last year 's R&D strategy review .
18 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 :
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 Phillip Thorpe , the AFBD 's chief executive , felt obliged to circulate to his staff a denial of reports that a merger with The Securities Association was in the offing .
23 But both Woodruffe and Hodson denied strongly that the Association was in any sense a secret society , that it sought to discipline members in breach of rules , to dictate terms to shipowners or to enforce a closed shop .
24 ‘ The Architectural Association was in its phase of producing architects who could n't design buildings .
25 For rural weavers the habit of association was in itself sufficient to produce at need an organisation to provide deputations or conduct strikes , and this habit was reinforced rather than created by more formal links such as village friendly or burial clubs .
26 One is how far advanced the Labour Party 's thinking was on the nature of planning it might undertake if it took power at the end of the second world war .
27 Such thinking was behind the absurd argument that the police should be restrained from giving hot pursuit to stolen cars , and it also lay behind much of the nit-picking objection to the Bill that we heard from the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook .
28 My thinking was in some way parallel to that of the generative semantics school , but at the same time I developed my own ideas independently of them .
29 The door in the back end of the tractor-shed was off this .
30 They are well known in the Weald of Kent and Sussex and around Poole harbour ; and one land-drainage contractor was of the opinion in 1986 that in his own county , Northamptonshire , there was scarcely a parish without areas which were effectively undrainable due to ochre .
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