Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] was [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large scale drug smuggling was on the increase , and a more professional approach to combat this was being used by the law-enforcement teams . |
| 2 | His first major field research was among the Nupe people of Northern Nigeria , and on his second field research period there , 1935-36 , he wrote up a work journal which has never been published . |
| 3 | By the turn of the century , alignment research was on the increase , although it was being carried on by individuals working in isolation from each other . |
| 4 | It was six months before their debut album was in the shops and by that time public interest in them had waned . |
| 5 | In this respect , the opinions of the parliamentary leadership were not dissimilar to those of the majority of Labour supporters , but this congruence does not invalidate the claim that Labour 's substantive and definite electoral support bloc was on the decline , and was being replaced , at least at the margin , by a more conditional and circumspect form of popular support . |
| 6 | His cheque card was on the table . |
| 7 | The only styling change was to the headlamps with the plexiglass shells removed . |
| 8 | Luke 's wedding ring was on the table , close to her hand , and her eyes were wide open , like the eyes of someone who has just woken up . |
| 9 | The agreed plan for a postgraduate institute was on the basis that it would be partly financed by National Health Service funds — a commitment made in writing at the time by the then Scottish health minister , Michael Forsyth . |
| 10 | They had still not turned up by two o'clock , and since their sandwich lunch was in the car , Jack and Warnie were feeling ‘ uncommonly peckish ’ . |
| 11 | The duty officer at the Cabinet Office Briefing Room was at the centre of a web of information technology . |
| 12 | Where the gallery projects from the first floor of the house , the wool room was in the house on the first floor . |
| 13 | A fine barn lies beyond and the wool room was in the house on the first floor away from the gallery . |
| 14 | As the burial mound was of the period known as the Bronze Age , the horn and the mound could belong to the same period . |
| 15 | Additionally , the Hammer community was in the process of housing redevelopment , and many in-group members had moved out of the immediate area . |
| 16 | Amongst the villagers , the division on Friday night was between the men , who had been in the pub and could vouch for each other , and the wives , who had been watching telly at home and could n't , but who seemed knowledgeable , when pressed , about a number of ITV programmes . |
| 17 | The congregation was a colourful mixture of students , teaching staff , and parishioners and at least one College Principal was in the congregation . |
| 18 | The smell of Dada 's cut grass was in the air . |
| 19 | The football ground was at the back of a churchyard in the suburbs . |
| 20 | The entire labour movement was under the control of " social fascism " . |
| 21 | A county council spokesman said speed checks would be carried out but a final decision on imposing a speed limit was with the Department of Transport . |
| 22 | The initial interest of the Social Work Research Centre was in the desirability and feasibility of comparing the effectiveness of generic and specialist modes of organization . |
| 23 | The fingerprint bureau was on the point of collapse . |
| 24 | The Stavanger house was on the south side of the square , nearest the river , and an alleyway beside the house probably led down to the docks . |
| 25 | However no shareholder rebellion was on the cards given the satisfaction with the group 's recent performance and only a handful of investors voted against the proposal . |
| 26 | The stock market was in the doldrums at the close yesterday with the FT-SE 100 Index static . |
| 27 | As the site of Montagu House was within the area of the block plan design , the article asserted that neither the Duke nor Burn would be disinterested assessors . |
| 28 | Slade Mill was in the hands of Edward William Cook from the 1890s , up to the First World War . |
| 29 | The lintel board was in the form of a bevelled panel with a beaded edge . |
| 30 | Washing hung on the line outside and their £10,000 car was in the drive . |