Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technical college was on the outskirts of town , miles away from the cinema . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The stage hands thought she looked like a vulture waiting to pounce and would mutter that the old girl was on the sidelines again . |
| 4 | The highest rate of suburban development was in the cities of the North-East . |
| 5 | A BRITISH pilot was among the officers who helped destroy Somali armoured vehicles after coming under fire , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 6 | Old Ape was in the shadows at the back , Mrs Stead-Carter looked impatient at the front . |
| 7 | You can see how completely unconcerned this brutal man was about the feelings of the members of his family . |
| 8 | A draft agreement covering the ownership of works of art and the division of cultural property was among the scores of treaties and agreements drawn up between the Czech and Slovak Republics prior to the 1 January dissolution of the seventy-four-year-old state of Czechoslovakia . |
| 9 | But the day-to-day administration of the south-western French possessions of the English crown was in the hands of knightly-seneschals or lawyer-seneschals , aided and abetted by a Gascon council , by their own lieutenants , and ( after 1279 ) by sub-seneschals in the major subdivisions of the duchy . |
| 10 | By 1917 , the year that he first came into contact with Sartre , the very year that Lenin was establishing a new revolutionary Soviet state , three years before the birth of the French communist party , this future activist of the French Left was in the throes of a major personal crisis brought about by the demise of his father . |
| 11 | Similar difficulties can occur if the former matrimonial home was in the names of husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants , for on the death of either it would appear to a purchaser that the survivor had the right to sell ( Law of Property ( Joint Tenants ) Act 1964 , s1(1) ) . |
| 12 | Forget the Cup Final … the real fun was at the play-offs . |
| 13 | My early training was in the sciences . |
| 14 | Since most of the surplus food was from the lowlands with irrigation water originating in the highlands , widespread deforestation in the latter areas had had very serious effects upon the ability of South Korea to feed itself . |
| 15 | By 1914 the Liberal party was on the ropes and the Unionists could look forward confidently to the election that could not be long delayed . |
| 16 | Or conversely , a political system in which a monarch or an aristocracy formally ruled might disguise the fact that real power was in the hands of the people . |
| 17 | But the swirling breeze was at the hunters ' backs , and the big bull suddenly lifted his muzzle to scent in their direction , and a moment later the whole herd was running towards the shelter of the trees . |
| 18 | The hard part was in the years to come . |
| 19 | With nerves jangling , palms sweating and nails bitten to the bone , the same unthinkable notion was in the minds of millions — surely the US PGA Championship is not going to be won by someone called … |
| 20 | The newly-appointed Estonian leader Vaino Valjas complained that more than 90 per cent of the republican economy was in the hands of Moscow ministries , and called for the balance to be reversed in the republic 's favour . |
| 21 | When he raised his standard at Nottingham he was joined by a number of Members of Parliament who had previously criticised him but now felt that the Parliamentary cause was in the hands of extremists . |
| 22 | The ‘ writtenness ’ of the apostolic tradition was of the accidents rather than the substance of the apostolic proclamation concerning Christ . |
| 23 | The prison-building programme was among the casualties . |
| 24 | ‘ Poor man was through the wars , was n't he ? ’ |
| 25 | He was asked about the secrecy involved and the necessity for the early morning raids , and he answered that both the Society 's and the Council 's major concern was for the interests and feelings of the children , and that necessitated confidentiality . |
| 26 | My poor master was in the depths of despair . |
| 27 | He , or just occasionally she , is , to begin with , the seeing eye of the story , even more so than the Great Detective was in the days of his triumphs . |
| 28 | The initial spreading was in the intestines and was about 3cm wide which apparently is the smallest tumour you can have . |
| 29 | Then it was time to cast off and manoeuvre gently away from the dock.We were at last ready to head down the River Severn and onwards into the Bristol Channel.Our safe passage was in the hands of Severn pilot Pete Tippet : |
| 30 | When Layton hired Mayfair-based KAS , started by Sir David Stirling , founder of the SAS , its day-to-day running was in the hands of another former SAS colonel , Ian Crook . |