Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] was [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fundamentally , liking the ‘ new ’ Wedding Present was of a question of taste . |
| 2 | Its Chapter House was like a Board Room , where the abbots presided like chairmen of the Board , with the profit motive high on the agenda . |
| 3 | The first strawberry patch was in a clearing where the undergrowth was thick and leafy . |
| 4 | The first meeting place was above a cafe in Newgate Street in the City of London , but this did not prove satisfactory and they then met on a weekly basis at another cafe near Marble Arch . |
| 5 | The most convenient time for this routine servicing was on a Sunday and the three men soon became familiar with the sophisticated equipment . |
| 6 | As a consequence , the overall effect of the smart suit was marred by the Miami Dolphins T-shirt and the fact that his brand-new red and black squared silk tie was in a bow knot around his right wrist . |
| 7 | The histamine treated xenografts were identical to those from the PBS treated control with respect to the number of inflammatory cells , showing that the increase in tumour size was as a result of an inflammatory response to the injected histamine . |
| 8 | Significantly , in the House of Lords the limitation clause was as a matter of construction upheld to apply to the circumstances of the case although , in the event , their Lordships affirmed the unanimous judgment of the Court of Appeal in holding that the clause was rendered unenforceable by statute because it would not be " fair or reasonable to allow reliance " on it . |
| 9 | A Noyon of the Seijin clan — his crimson eye shading was like a badge which identified him — made a face and shook his head . |
| 10 | Hoddle admitted the exclusion of Hughes and the subsequent team re-shuffle was worth a goal start for his team . |
| 11 | They were very very reliable because erm , the motive power was in a motor , electric motor , not a lot of parts to go wrong but er once you started the motor buses they had to send people away to be taught the mechanics of motor buses , so you had the old die-hards of the fetters , trolley buses , who never did take to motor buses and course the younger ones came into their own then , who were able to adapt to the modern motor bus . |
| 12 | Water Gypsy was in a lock . |
| 13 | Traffic was running about 20 minutes late by 10am that day out of Chester on the Down lines , and platform space was at a premium . |
| 14 | Before I started wearing my Breast-Arrest my physics career was in a shambles , for my ample balcon kept plopping into my radium , disrupting one experiment after another . |
| 15 | In cases of manumission , the slave in the first place had a dispensation from the normal prohibition on bringing suit against his master ; furthermore , after the Trajanic SC Rubrianum the tendency of the whole process before the praetor fideicommissarius was towards a declaration by the judge , and if the declaration was in favour of freedom then it was given effect by means of a fiction that the slave had actually been given direct freedom under the testator 's will . |
| 16 | As the programme of library education was in a state of active development , many of the methods used were intended to provide formative evaluation on which course modifications could be based . |
| 17 | The Crystal Palace tram terminus was on a gradient and it was ruled that if the crew wanted to take their break there , in the busmen 's canteen round the corner on the Parade , they must go one at a time and not leave the car unattended . |
| 18 | ‘ Bunty ’ was first published in 1958 , when the picture paper market was at a boom . |
| 19 | A state entrance was under a porte-cochère on the Downing Street side which led to the suite of reception rooms occupying the entire first floor of the northern wing . |
| 20 | She knew she should n't speak to a strange man , but as her Brownie Guider was under a tree not many yards away she thought she could tell him about the litter that had caused the Pack to lose the use of Ferngrove Park . |
| 21 | THE International Olympic Committee president , Juan Antonio Samaranch , said yesterday that beach volleyball was worth a place in the Olympic Games . |
| 22 | Liston Hall was about a mile and a half further on , reached by its own private drive . |
| 23 | The trilobite eye was of a compound type , and each lens was made up of a calcite crystal . |
| 24 | Although it was difficult to pretend that a former member of the Rhodesian Special Air Service was on a par in purely military terms with a goat-herd from Bolivia , the fact that both were starting afresh made administration that much easier . |
| 25 | A disagreement between the USSR State Bank ( Gosbank ) and the Russian Federation state bank was behind a decree issued by Gorbachev on July 29 which called on republican Supreme Soviets to refrain from passing legislation disrupting the country 's finance and banking system . |
| 26 | The promotion reward was like a game of snakes and ladders . |
| 27 | Our first midweek fixture was on a Thursday , the second on a Wednesday and the third on a Tuesday . |
| 28 | In practice , the main background source that we sought to reject from the refluxed food signal was as a result of the large pool of activity in the stomach . |
| 29 | Sir Vivien 's mashie niblick was in a bunker approximately forty yards from the hole . ’ |
| 30 | The Staffordshire bull terrier was in a Ford Escort van with Michael Armstrong , 28 , from Newbiggin by the Sea , Northumberland , which crashed on the C38 between Sedgefield and Great Stainton . |