Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impasse was deepened by the refusal of Quebec 's Liberal Premier , Robert Bourassa , under pressure from the growing separatist Parti Québecois opposition , to contemplate a revision or excision of the " distinct society " clause . |
| 2 | The Hermopolitan cosmology was linked with the city of Hermopolis and the god Thoth . |
| 3 | It was only after a considerable struggle that the diver was dragged to the deck . |
| 4 | At Main Road , Bicknacre , a wheel was stolen from the boot of a Ford Escort XR3 . |
| 5 | A drive wheel was attached above the cycle 's rear wheel and , after a day 's use , the battery is repowered overnight , using a standard home charger . |
| 6 | A Charter making Stockport a free borough was granted by the Earl of Chester in about 1220 ; and a second Charter granted in 1260 gave the right to hold a market each Friday and an annual Fair , commencing on St. Wilfred 's Day and running for the seven days following . |
| 7 | Society was now based on complicity in the common crime ; religion was based on the sense of guilt and the remorse attaching to it ; while morality was based partly on the exigencies of this society and partly on the penance demanded by the sense of guilt . |
| 8 | As the Prime Minister reproached Mr Nigel Lawson for resigning the Chancellorship ‘ with such suddenness and haste ’ — and over personality not policy — her isolation was highlighted by the ex-minister whose enforced resignation in the Westland affair of 1986 is being likened by disaffected MPs to the recent sacrifice of Mr Lawson . |
| 9 | No remedy was provided by the statute for enforcement . |
| 10 | The final remedy was found in the convoy system . |
| 11 | An alarming crack also appeared in the nose Plexiglas but nothing vital fell off , no serious damage resulted and the idea 's feasibility was proven with the expenditure of more rounds . |
| 12 | Holland 's interpretation was that in the second phase of training an association was formed between the illness produced by the injection and a CS-evoked representation of the food that preceded it . |
| 13 | By coincidence , the British Medical Association was represented in the House this week to report on its study of hazardous waste in the west midlands in the very same district of Walsall to which I referred . |
| 14 | The Annual General Meeting of the Juniper Green Village Association was held in the Village Hall on Monday 27th April at 7.30p.m . |
| 15 | The Annual General Meeting of the Juniper Green Village Association was held in the Village Hall on Monday 26th April at 7.30pm . |
| 16 | 27.4. 92 The Annual General Meeting of the Juniper Green Village Association was held in the Village Hall on Monday 27th April at 7.30p.m . |
| 17 | 26.4.93 The Annual General Meeting of the Juniper Green Village Association was held in the Village Hall on Monday 26th April at 7.30pm . |
| 18 | The Association was approached by the originators of the idea , as well as NEDO , to take on board these objectives and carry them forward . |
| 19 | The President , Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Keith Williamson and Lady Williamson were present when the Standard of the Association was paraded at the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 20 | Walsh 's thinking was based on the theory known in economic jargon as ‘ reverse income substitution effect ’ . |
| 21 | Whole curricular thinking was inhibited by the need to preserve the first ; the breaking down of professional isolation by the need to conceal the latter . |
| 22 | In so far as religious thinking was permeated by the spirit of Humanism , religious music also submitted to become the vehicle of the word while pure polyphony of the utmost technical refinement continued to serve the religion of pure unreasoning faith , ‘ the magic of sound matching the magic of faith ’ . |
| 23 | On Wednesday a purse was snatched from the counter of a shop in Alton High Street . |
| 24 | Assistant fire marshall Jose Garza says a brass railing at the front of the Municipal Auditorium was broken by the pressure of the crowd . |
| 25 | Breathing rhythm was established by the movement of a bar graph displayed on the computer screen . |
| 26 | Im was charged under the NSA in connection with Chondaehyop 's support of Lim Su Kyong , a student who had represented the Council at the 13th World Youth and Student Festival held in Pyongyang , the North Korean capital , in July [ see pp. 36852 ; 37247-48 ] . |
| 27 | State aid was accepted for the school , although the Church still retained some control . |
| 28 | Although the Americans were anxious not to become identified with " colonial " authorities , aid was granted to the French from May 1950 . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ No first aid was given by the police at the scene . |
| 30 | Even the most generous US aid was limited by the value placed upon it by Congress in terms of American advantage . |