Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The value and the duration of the OEM contract was not disclosed . |
| 2 | Runners-up were the National Deaf Club of London and the Brighton Branch was adjudged third . |
| 3 | Guildford skatepark was demolished and as a result Farnborough was noticed for the first time outside the immediate area . |
| 4 | Sussex University was born , with more glitter and publicity than had attended the more earnest first days of Keele , and with a declared mission to redraw the map of knowledge , to challenge the hegemony of the traditional subject , to celebrate a new scientific culture . |
| 5 | Marjorie Boulton wrote : ‘ The whole Somerville experience was a revelation to someone who had previously had a largely stultifying education and a narrow background ’ ; it gave ‘ freedom of discussion , dignity of life , stress on truth in scholarship , study in depth , no fear of victimisation , undenominational chapel , fine library , interesting friends … and Joshua , the Principal 's tabby cat . |
| 6 | Held up in rear by Piggott , Pharly Story was left with a stiff task as the leaders quickened the pace turning for home . |
| 7 | However , the Chelsea chairman was last night locked in delicate negotiations with John Duggan , the chairman of Cabra Estates , whose subsidiary , SB Properties , own the site . |
| 8 | ‘ The Herr Admiral was well , General ? ’ |
| 9 | The following morning , the Nez Perce camp was further heartened by the return of the formidable warriors Five Wounds and Rainbow from buffalo-hunting in Montana . |
| 10 | The credibility of Defence in the Whitehall market-place was further weakened by three other factors : first , the ‘ bull ’ market enjoyed by the high-spending , socially-orientated departments — Health , Education , Labour and Social Services ; secondly , the failure of our West European allies to match our level of Defence expenditure , thus providing arguments that Britain was doing more than her fair share in collective defence ; and thirdly , trading rivals , like Germany and Japan , honing their competitive edge with lower military expenditure , likewise adding to the consensus view that Britain was overspending on Defence however potent the Soviet military threat might be . |
| 11 | In addition , the Porkkala base was relinquished many years after Finland re-established the independent operation of her internal political processes . |
| 12 | For the other volatility measures the Samuelson hypothesis was not supported when the rate of information arrival was proxied by volume . |
| 13 | Perhaps the Talbothays milk was not very well skimmed that afternoon . |
| 14 | Official attendance at Windsor Park was 6,500 but gate receipts for the international reflected a crowd of 9,000 ! |
| 15 | Reviving the classical grandeur of the railway carriage of Edwardian days , with all its silver-plated , lacetableclothed dining-car finery and mahogany-panelled parlour-car ambience , on the long-established route from London to Paris and Venice , the Orient Express was the brainchild of James Sherwood , head of the Sea Containers Group . |
| 16 | The sense of liberation engendered when the Tiananmen verdict was reversed led sympathisers of the Li Yi Zhe group to bring calls for their release out into the open . |
| 17 | Lincoln University was white-tiled towers , variegated with violet tiles and orange tiles and from time to time acid-green tiles . |
| 18 | In a country where gestures are important , the official playing of the anthem at Ellis Park was insensitive to many people who had seen the very acceptance of the tours as a major compromise . |
| 19 | ICL PC was forecast to start work in Mainz-Kastell on March 1 , with some 25 workers looking after both private customers and middle-sized companies . |
| 20 | The lesson Haslam learned from his ICI experience was that wherever possible redundancy should be on a voluntary basis if the trauma were to be kept to a minimum . |
| 21 | Another convincing Middlesbrough winner was the NorthEast intermediate javelin champion , Emily Harrison , who threw 34.78 metres . |
| 22 | The cameras clicked , the reporters reached for their notebooks , the Principal and Lord James Douglas-Hamilton ascended in a crane to unveil a sign and descended to be met by ‘ Alison ’ the Kissogram girl , toasts were made , balloons set off and Napier University was born on 15 June 1992 in an atmosphere of razzmatazz and celebration . |
| 23 | To cap a highly successful conclusion to the season — in which the Berkshire side first out-matched defending champions David Lloyd , Heston and then , in the Grand Finals , beat the top seeds Ilkley — the club No. 1 Gary Drake was named the special Grand Finals ‘ Player-of-the-Tournament ’ by Wimbledon referee Alan Mills , and drove away smiling in a brand new £15,000 Vauxhall Astra convertible . |
| 24 | While Smith fell to Hughesman in straight sets in the second string singles rubber , Gary Drake was finding the going a little tough against Queens ' rested No. 1 Steve Alger , 33-year-old Vauxhall Trophy ‘ veteran ’ and a former Bermuda No. 1 . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly this is less true for Newham than for Ipswich carers ; for in and around Ipswich there was an abundance of both private and local authority Homes , whereas in Newham provision was more restricted and there were no privately owned Homes . |
| 26 | In January 1988 a signed partnership between Education and the Business community called the Sheffield Contract was brought into existence . |
| 27 | Critique et vérité was written as a defence of the structuralist position after the attack on Barthes 's study of Racine ( Sur Racine ) by Raymond Picard ( a Sorbonne academic ) in a pamphlet entitled Nouvelle critique ou nouvelle imposture ( 1965 ) . |
| 28 | In Asia Minor Easter was celebrated on the date of the Jewish Passover festival , that being the date of the crucifixion in St John 's Gospel ( a work closely associated with the tradition of Ephesus ) . |
| 29 | Moreover , the claimant who has been successful in a case like the one in which the SCC judgement was rendered can bring an action for compensation of any additional financial damage sustained and/or for compensation for injury to feeling . |
| 30 | During our Pre-Campaign Wave in March defence was the main issue on television , the main issue stressed by the Conservative Party , and second only to unemployment as Labour 's main issue . |