Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The triumphant jockey , whose only previous win at Classic level was in the Italian St Leger , gave a victory salute with his whip when passing the post . |
| 2 | The top cutting was from the Sunday Times ; underneath , she spotted items from both the Guardian and the Sun . |
| 3 | My first real exhibition was at the Hanover Gallery in 1955 and it was n't a great success commercially very little was sold so there was an interval of eight years before I had another . |
| 4 | She was glad Ferdinando was in the Brownings ' villa and she was with Mr Landor and Pilade in another . |
| 5 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
| 6 | Samuel 's large stall was in the rue de Sanghines , the street of the moneylenders . |
| 7 | The chosen location was on the Shepton Mallet side of the tunnel , where he intended to record trains approaching the climb . |
| 8 | The aircraft-carrier Centaur was in the Indian Ocean on passage to the Far East . |
| 9 | The world famous naturalist was at the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust 's headquarters to launch an education programme — enabling thousands of local schoolchildren to use the centre to learn more about nature . |
| 10 | The company said the major impact was on the UK brick company ‘ where a number of less effective manufacturing facilities are to be closed and production concentrated on the low-cost , high-quality plants ’ . |
| 11 | Although the initial mapping was in the Grampians , it was not long before part of the team was diverted to the North-West Highlands . |
| 12 | Morton 's first overseas venture was in the UK in 1964 , when it set up a joint venture in Coventry to distribute the LP polymer . |
| 13 | She listened for Patrick 's cry but the only noise was from the Kenny children as they squabbled over a piece of bread , and Maggie was sitting on the bed with the baby sucking in vain at her scrawny breast . |
| 14 | His first general managership was at the Frankfurt Plaza for Canadian Pacific and he moved to the Regent Hotels in 1982 to run the Melbourne property . |
| 15 | The Cubans particular grudge was over the United States ' retention of the Guantanamo base on Cuban soil against Cuban wishes . |
| 16 | In the higher price range , the most notable result was for the El Greco ‘ Disrobing of Christ ’ ( lot 309 ) , a preparatory study for the work of that subject in Toledo Cathedral , which made a new record for the artist at £1.7 million ( $3.1 ; est. £1.5–2.5 million ) . |
| 17 | The FA Cup might have dominated the weekend 's sports headlines , but for the 900 fans at Whaddon Road , the really big game was between the Robins and Yeovil . |
| 18 | How valuable this Romanian channel of military information was to the Pentagon may be doubted , but it is revealing of the extent of Ceauşescu 's duplicity . |
| 19 | This was a splendid late flowering of the ‘ Orientalist ’ style , and was to the British in India what the Spanish mission-station style was to the United States . |
| 20 | The other report was from the DC who had called on Garland 's daughter , Anna , and her mother . |
| 21 | His maiden speech was on the Congo and his last was on home rule for Ireland . |
| 22 | However , the primary reason for the refusal , said Tony Baldry , under secretary of state for the environment , was the fact that the site for the proposed incinerator was over the South Yorkshire aquifer . |
| 23 | His enduring legacy was on the Papworth estate , where he left behind , not merely a reputation for kindness and generosity , but a series of ‘ new model cottages ’ for farm workers which continued to be appreciated several decades after his death . |