Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] was [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were extravagantly to his advantage , save when she lowered her voice to sigh , tapping her left side familiarly : " And all overclouded by this , you know — all at the mercy of a weakness — ( 9 ) Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart ( 10 ) . |
| 2 | This impression is backed up by the following sentence , which stands out as being the shortest and most straightforward sentence in the extract : Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart ( 10 ) . |
| 3 | These express the content of Pemberton 's inner consciousness : " Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart " ( 10 ) : " he would have liked to hear the figure of his salary " ( 3 ) . |
| 4 | The unity was in the past and resided in the present and our devotion to Jesus . |
| 5 | ‘ The Prince was on a dahabeeyah last night coming back from Karnak and someone fell overboard . ’ |
| 6 | And this afternoon literally everything connected with the base was on the move . |
| 7 | The writer was on a ship when he wrote the letters , ’ I replied . |
| 8 | I think the writer was in a hurry . |
| 9 | The Board was in no hurry to cut pollution despite the UK 's U-turn . |
| 10 | If he was a zealot , it was in his strict adherence to his Faith ; if he was bigoted , it was in his belief that the kirk was of the people and answerable to no master other than God . |
| 11 | The cinema was at the back of the present hotel . |
| 12 | The cinema was round the corner and |
| 13 | The access was never meant to be it was meant to be further in and and we all for well know , the permission was for a drive to come down through the wood , which would have been very attractive and a garage on the end of the property . |
| 14 | There was one based on Proust and one based on Zola , and the winner was about the ghosts of a haunted house being disturbed by an estate agent and a gang of would-be mortgage slaves . |
| 15 | The tide was on the turn now . |
| 16 | On one occasion Crawford was left hanging above the stage for ten minutes when there was a bomb scare and everyone left the theatre quickly , forgetting that the top-of-the-bill was at the top of the stage . |
| 17 | The greatest difficulty for the USRC was within the party , for any commitment to a positive social policy would be resisted by those whose vested interests were threatened , as Robert Sanders noted over labourers " wages : |
| 18 | Mrs Metcalfe said : ‘ The money was for the electricity bill . |
| 19 | I think that I must assume the existence of some person in the defendants ' employment who accepted and appropriated the money with a full knowledge of all the facts , particularly the discussion which had preceded the institution of the action , and the pending of the action itself , who knew and realised that the right of the defendants to receive the money was at the moment sub judice , and indeed on the point of coming before this court for decision . |
| 20 | The result might perhaps have been different if the money was in a collecting box . |
| 21 | Some of the money was in a bag fastened to her walking frame . |
| 22 | Coun Williams replied that he had always said the money was from an insurance payout , adding : ‘ It is very easy for the Liberal Democrat councillors to make such statements . |
| 23 | In the election of October of the same year , the Labour party achieved an overall majority of only three seats : as a consequence of by-election losses and defections , it lost its majority in April 1976 , and by the end of the Parliament was in a minority by 17 seats . |
| 24 | The case was about a challenge to a surveyor 's valuation of the surrender price for a lease . |
| 25 | The case was about the liberty of the press to comment freely at any price . |
| 26 | These include matters such as whether the tribunal was properly constituted and whether the case was of a kind referred to in the statute . |
| 27 | The Bill gives asylum seekers in that position the right — it did not exist when the case was before the court — to appeal to an independent adjudicator . |
| 28 | The delay , such as it was , was not unjustifiable ; the chances of prejudice were remote ; the degree of potential prejudice was small ; the powers of the judge and the trial process itself would have provided ample protection for the respondent ; there was no danger of the trial being unfair ; in any event the case was in no sense exceptional so as to justify the ruling . |
| 29 | The delay , such as it was , was not unjustifiable ; the chances of prejudice were remote ; the degree of potential prejudice was small ; the powers of the judge and the trial process itself would have provided ample protection for the respondent ; there was no danger of the trial being unfair ; in any event the case was in no sense exceptional so as to justify the ruling . |
| 30 | The worst of the damage was in a triangle of streets bordered by Bishopsgate , Houndsditch and Leadenhall Street . |