Example sentences of "[noun] was [prep] the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 : |
| 2 | Speed was of the essence and manpower was limited . |
| 3 | Why , then , the attack of cold feet when the programme was in the can and the billing in the Radio Times ? |
| 4 | But Mr Stewart maintained the fault was with the plane and wrong signals had been sent to the flightdeck . |
| 5 | The Lord Mayor was in the audience and the Chancellor of the University . |
| 6 | In the mornings all the talk was of the babies and their welfare . |
| 7 | Then Rain 's car was round the bend and the house vanished . |
| 8 | Everybody knew the tram drivers and used to hop on the front of the car up to the nearest point of the station and then jump off , and the superintendent was on the car and saw him getting on . |
| 9 | It was six months before their debut album was in the shops and by that time public interest in them had waned . |
| 10 | The lute 's heyday was during the Renaissance and the last solo music for lute was composed by J S Bach around 1720 . |
| 11 | Most of the violence was between the ANC and Zulu rivals of the Inkatha Freedom party . |
| 12 | Last Fri last Wednesday and she got the trolley like and when she pulled the trolley a woman 's handbag was on the trolley and on the you know what was it ? |
| 13 | The initial spreading was in the intestines and was about 3cm wide which apparently is the smallest tumour you can have . |
| 14 | Josephine your work was on the top and I thought goodness that ca n't be Josephine 's writing . |
| 15 | Live work was for the future and would follow when Kylie felt fully ready for the demands of life on the road — and for now there were a million other business opportunities to be pursued . |
| 16 | Hutchinson 's first official work was under the navy and customs committee of the Long Parliament ; by 1645 he was acting as Vane 's deputy in the very important post of navy treasurer . |
| 17 | On the basis of the information above , calculate what the brothers ' wealth was at the start and end of the six months and what profit had been made . |
| 18 | It is while the caretaker was in the science and humanities wing he turned on the light which caused the college to explode . |
| 19 | Maybe the boy was on the run and they had planes out searching for him . |
| 20 | Before this game we were told that this was the poorest Irish team in memory , that Irish rugby was in the doldrums and that the swashbuckling French were about to turn on the after-burners and skyrocket into the stratosphere . |
| 21 | Radio enthusiast , Graham Simon was behind the idea and one of his first broadcasters was local Councillor , Adrian Coles . |
| 22 | Mr Robson told Cleveland Coroner Michael Sheffield the telephone was off the hook and things were scattered around the room . |
| 23 | The focus was on the victim and not the assailant . |
| 24 | The second is that both the DES and the NCC perceived that the best way to gain acceptance for the innovation amongst teachers responsible for children with special educational needs was through the language and ideological overtones of entitlement . |
| 25 | He decided that this clergyman was in the clouds and out of the reach of the common man . |
| 26 | I asked Ms Higgins what the difference was between the monsoon and the pre-monsoon . |
| 27 | The pail was by the window and she could see the darkening yard and coach-house through an arched gateway . |
| 28 | The general output from a character recogniser is a lattice of the possible characters with indications about how close the match was between the character and character templates stored in a database ( see $1.4.2 ) . |
| 29 | The kitchen wing was at the back and to the side so the house was L-shaped ; and beyond the kitchen was a cobbled yard bounded by the stables , where they kept the cars . |
| 30 | The summit of this very steep grade was in the tunnel and once out of it engines would shut off to get their breath back . |