Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only solid bit was at the front . |
| 2 | The triumphant jockey , whose only previous win at Classic level was in the Italian St Leger , gave a victory salute with his whip when passing the post . |
| 3 | But that difficulty was in the end surmounted and , on the whole , the writing was easy and pleasurable . |
| 4 | I had a relatively easy morning , joining James and Cathy Lane once the 409 litres ( 90gal ) of Friesian milk was in the vat in the dairy at 7.30am ( they had risen at 5.30 to do the milking ) . |
| 5 | The agreement in that case was between the owner of a piano ( a dealer ) and his customer . |
| 6 | However , he submitted that even if the trial judge had misdirected the jury when he told them that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what it was proved that he himself had done , that misdirection was to the advantage of the first appellant . |
| 7 | The largest reduction was in the number of elderly casualties . |
| 8 | The literary truth is that Modernism was in the end a starved and blighted world , joylessly based on a denial that language can depict the real . |
| 9 | In later years the dry dock was under the control of Marr & Co. but following the building of the new bridge at Bernard Street , only small vessels and yachts could pass under the bridge and reach the dock . |
| 10 | The technical college was on the outskirts of town , miles away from the cinema . |
| 11 | Although arrangements differed in detail from one place to another the usual practice was for the management to allow a preliminary meeting in works time at which the aims of the WEA could be explained and for those apprentices interested to stay behind to plan a course . |
| 12 | A further freedom was from the thrall of death — whose sting is fear , through Christ we see that death is not final . |
| 13 | The proper course was for the insurance company to apply to remove the stay in the plaintiff 's action . |
| 14 | The commercial settlement was with the South Western Regional Health Authority and concerned an alkali silica reaction — concrete cancer — in the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital . |
| 15 | This expertise was behind the opening of the North Terminal at Gatwick , the new Terminal 4 at Heathrow and the rebuilding of Terminal 3 to give far greater comfort than before . |
| 16 | The next national issue to take the form of open public discontent was in the summer of 1987 when a group of about 700 Crimean Tatars staged an unprecedented demonstration in Red Square . |
| 17 | British Aerospace was amongst the features today when it lost 12 pence to four hundred and fif , five hundred and forty one pence on rumours that the Saudis had cancelled some Tornado options . |
| 18 | One clear change was in the status of women . |
| 19 | Most of this industry was on the coalfield at Coatbridge and in the Clyde valley from Motherwell to Glasgow . |
| 20 | On his brief visit to Cambodia he met Dith Pran for the first time , but his longest stretch was from the beginning of January 1975 until the fall of Phnom Penh in April of that year . |
| 21 | French aplomb was to the fore as Auguste handed the crab to them along with the hook , raised his new Panama hat and bade them a courteous farewell . |
| 22 | Up to the early years of the twentieth century , the typical pattern of foreign investment was of the portfolio type , where private capitalists individually , or through financial organizations , would invest funds in such foreign enterprises such as railways or mines or trading companies , and simply collect the dividends as they came in . |
| 23 | An RAF Warrant Officer in the Medical Administration branch , this Veteran was in the war from the start , helping to set up a field hospital . |
| 24 | & this Helianor was of the daughters , heirs |
| 25 | The top cutting was from the Sunday Times ; underneath , she spotted items from both the Guardian and the Sun . |
| 26 | By her fireside there was a settee and a table , ‘ and old granny was in the corner . |
| 27 | Clearly some of this work was beyond the scope of the youngest children , nevertheless the reception class joined in wherever possible and their teacher attended all staff meetings and discussions . |
| 28 | The emphasis in this work was on the collection of statistical data , i.e. in the form of numbers , rather than descriptions of particular ways of life . |
| 29 | This issue was at the heart of the Report of the Layfield Committee on Local Government Finance ( Cmnd 6453 ) published in 1976 . |
| 30 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |