Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] was [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of them were professionals , the only difference being that Trent was on the side of the law . |
| 2 | Isabella and Mortimer could scarcely hope to survive long in power : neither had a claim to the throne but ruled in the name of Edward III ; their authority was thus precarious and , given that Edward was in the Plantagenet mould , destined to early extinction . |
| 3 | Succeeding the ailing Sir Frank Soskice as a young Home Secretary in December 1965 , at the age of forty-five Jenkins was on the threshold of a dazzling career . |
| 4 | I sent Peggy down to the village for yeast and old Meg was at the baker 's , first time in months , and she says her master 's back . ’ |
| 5 | ( The very lowest PTR of any English LEA was in the Isles of Scilly , but it had under 300 pupils in total ) ( CIPFA , 1989 ) . |
| 6 | The real Peru was in the mountains and not along the coast , among the Indians and condors and the peaks of the Andes , not here in Lima , a foreign , lazy , anti-Peruvian city … |
| 7 | So what began as a simple strategy to sell denim trews to impressionable , pliable teenage minds became an inter-agency conceptual war as the adpeople convinced themselves that late-Eighties Britain was in the grip of a nostalgia boom . |
| 8 | By the 1840s Thornton was in the forefront of the City of London , not only as merchant and financier but as shipowner and leading marine insurance broker . |
| 9 | Right now the real Obispal was on the verge of departing from Stalinvast with a flourish of trumpets and hallelujahs . |
| 10 | Finally in 575 Sigibert was at the point of eliminating Chilperic , but he was murdered , probably by agents of Fredegund . |
| 11 | She looked at Alexander for guidance : he said that the image of black Sarah was in the crypt They went down . |
| 12 | In 1244–5 Richard was in the marches of Wales , and received another blow when Richard de Clare , sixth Earl of Gloucester , lord of Glamorgan , had him arrested and confiscated his Glamorgan estates , on the grounds that Richard had sided with a Welsh magnate of the area against the earl . |
| 13 | All Paris was in the Opera House . |
| 14 | By 1964 Healey was at the end of its development , but still loved |
| 15 | On the second anniversary of his kidnap , we made sure John was in the news . |
| 16 | After all James was of the Stewart dynasty , so called because his ancestor Robert had been High Steward of Scotland , and had succeeded to the throne on the death of David II in 1371 . |
| 17 | When out photographer called , Sunny Jim was in the proceeds of receiving a pudding basin haircut … which was cut short by the arrival of an authentic but unwanted shower of rain . |
| 18 | The mid-engined Maserati was in the pipeline but still one year away . |
| 19 | For most of this time , for example , much of northern Europe was in the condition of a shallow , flooded shelf . |
| 20 | Just a fortnight ago , 23-year-old Jemson was on the verge of re-joining Forest in a £1million-plus swap deal which would have taken Kingsley Black to Hillsborough . |
| 21 | This is not unnatural , as in the 1970s and early 1980s Spencer was at the Queen 's University , Belfast , and an active member of the All Children Together Movement . |
| 22 | A REFUGEE family who fled to Britain from war-torn Yugoslavia was at the centre of a housing storm yesterday . |