Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was found that key characteristics was by far the most popular strategy , followed by realist strategy . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | The hammering of her heart in her ears was like a drum beating . |
| 5 | Davidson was the first Anglo-Scot to play international rugby ; the first of the Royal Indian Engineering College forward 's two caps was against England in 1873 , still in the days of 20-a-side , and rarely since then have the exiles not been represented in Scotland 's team . |
| 6 | A shapeless bundle of dirty rags was in front of her , the face no more than a grey shadow . |
| 7 | MUSIC from the 17th and 18th centuries was on the programme when the ‘ Kist of Musick ’ Chamber ensemble visited the University . |
| 8 | Though Todi in later centuries was to be a Ghibelline city — and still wears on its face some Ghibelline emblems — it was one of many in Umbria in earlier centuries which was loosely embraced by the papal umbrella . |
| 9 | This was done , and a connection which had existed unbroken for more than four centuries was at an end . |
| 10 | Wall 's ( 1986 ) evidence shows that the really notable change between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries was in the smaller number of people living in other people 's homes as servants or lodgers . |
| 11 | The association dates back half a century and in some eyes was at its peak during the Reagan-Thatcher years . |
| 12 | One or your down-fine hairs was on the pillow : I picked it up like gold-dust-sweet relic ! |
| 13 | The highest success rate obtained for items on the relationship between metric and Imperial units was for Example 48 . |
| 14 | In the 1970s , the prevailing demand among political activists and their academic sympathizers was for freedom first and education later . |
| 15 | And we , all them motorbikes was on er the edge . |
| 16 | My first practical experience in the use of homoeopathic remedies was in the treatment of a child with croup . |
| 17 | If my kids was over here I 'd have to flog something |
| 18 | Literary language was not removed from these public concerns , a belief that texts could communicate and move readers was of course fundamental to the assumption that poetry could teach and delight . |
| 19 | The way Pomiane chose to convey the necessary quantity to his listeners — he must have been a compelling radio talker — and later to his readers was in terms of " a bunch as large as a bunch of violets " . |
| 20 | The largest single body of readers was from BGS . |
| 21 | One of the welfare feminists ' main demands was for family endowment ( later called family allowances ) . |
| 22 | One of their demands was for a phased release of internees . |
| 23 | ( One of the FPR 's main demands was for the return home of all Rwandan refugees . ) |
| 24 | The most famous teaming up of the two brothers was in 1973 , with the chart single Frankenstein , a testimony to Johnny 's ability to adapt to a variety of different styles , an ability , in fact , which he insists was born out of necessity … |
| 25 | Neither of her brothers was in any way afflicted by claustrophobia . |
| 26 | One way of distributing offices was of course by sale , which became extremely common in late medieval and early modern Europe . |
| 27 | For this reason the range of offices was in some ways wider than we would think normal in a modern bureaucracy ; and , since the winning of support was quite as important as the conduct of business , influential men were able to accumulate posts . |
| 28 | The wealth of other trades was on a much smaller scale , one that can not have been untypical of most provincial communities . |
| 29 | The proportion of women candidates was at 29.4% the highest we have yet discovered for any tier of local or central government . |
| 30 | It is difficult to assess the performance of the DUP and Vanguard because there was considerable overlap between the two groups and the affiliation of some candidates was in doubt . |