Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] was [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raising money for Elton John 's AIDS Foundation promoter Harvey Goldsmith was enthusiastic about the concert venue , describing is as : ‘ One of Elton 's best shows in London ’ . |
| 2 | The Raybestos struggle was important as the only struggle in which both workers and community activists were involved , though not , unfortunately , in alliance with each other . |
| 3 | The LDP group was dissatisfied with the service and quality it was receiving from its Warwick factory . |
| 4 | Shirley Robertson has taken the slot in the Europe dinghy while Penny Way was pre-selected for the woman 's Lechner sailboard . |
| 5 | Despite a scare with grazed knees during the week before the St Leger , Commanche Run was favourite for the race , and with much justification . |
| 6 | He suddenly remembered that the Budmouth coast was famous for the number of swimmers drowned there every year , and he began to be afraid that he would soon be one of them . |
| 7 | ‘ The Northern Ireland committee was instrumental in the formation of the Van Straubenzee Working Party and had supported the work of the Fair Employment Agency and now Fair Employment Commission . ’ |
| 8 | But Hugh 's brown eyes were closed and his martyred Saint Sebastian head was flat on the pillow . |
| 9 | He replied that a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly was due in the district and suggested that she wait . |
| 10 | Basquiat père was shocked at the depiction of his son 's drug addiction in press accounts of the artist 's death , and the elder Basquiat 's lawyer says the estate may sue to stop the film , invoking laws in at least thirteen American states that enable an estate to stop the showing of a film because of objections to the exploitation of a physical likeness on the screen . |
| 11 | After repeated attempts to bring the shadow Cabinet around to his opposition to the ‘ permanent deflation and lack of democracy ’ implied in the Maastricht Treaty , Mr Gould resigned from the shadow Cabinet on 27 September 1992 , saying that his wish to speak out on the Maastricht Treaty was incompatible with the burden of collective responsibility , and claiming that over one hundred Labour MPs supported his position . |
| 12 | The Alan country was far to the south , beyond the G'bai desert , and its conquest had completed Yek expansion across the continent . |
| 13 | The Platzer family was responsible for the sculptures . |
| 14 | It is true that the Francovich case was concerned with the situation where a member state fails to implement an E.E.C . |
| 15 | The Fox-North coalition was characteristic of the phenomenon for a second reason besides its brief time in office . |
| 16 | At Ullapool the midday early November sun was low in the sky , white gold fanning down into the sea beyond Scoraig peninsula ; An Teallach hid its snow caps , cut off by a cool indigo-grey cloud . |
| 17 | In 1969 the Wilson government was worried about the general election which it was to call in June 1970 and lose . |
| 18 | He said the Kenton Road unit was vital to the 30 adults who have regularly relied on it for help since it began as a pilot project two years ago . |
| 19 | The meeting at the Castle Street house was decisive in the lives of both Poole and Coleridge , and was also , though by accident , instantly notorious in the little world of Stowey . |
| 20 | Mr O'Hara Labour MP for Knowsley South was unhappy over the ‘ insensitive ’ wording which made it clear the payments were for people not expected to live longer than six months . |
| 21 | A map of plant distribution based on palaeobotanical data suggests that the Late Permian ’ Glossopteris biome' was comparable to the modern ‘ cool temperate ’ Biome , which consists of deciduous angiosperm forests in temperate high latitudes where average daily temperatures are 10 °C for at least one-third of the year . |
| 22 | According to Miller Freeman 's vice-president Don Pazour , the sale of M&T Books so soon after its acquisition by Miller Freeman was due to the resignation of Linda Hanger , who had been ‘ the driving force behind the books ’ division under M&T Publishing . |
| 23 | The Maryland legislation was symptomatic of the continuing national debate over abortion , and the uncertainty surrounding the future of Roe v. Wade since the Supreme Court 's decision in July 1989 undermining that ruling by enabling states to restrict access to abortion [ see pp. 36809-10 ] . |
| 24 | The Franks Report was critical of the operation of the Joint Intelligence Committee and its assessment machinery . |
| 25 | The Sussex campus was stuck in the past as well . |
| 26 | US Intelligence was surprised by the readiness of some Panamanians to fight and die for their leader , forcing the US troops besieging barracks at Fort Amador to bring in 105mm howitzers to blast away pockets of mortar and sniper fire . |
| 27 | Clearly therefore , the Coniston rate was well above the Cornish average ! |
| 28 | It was widely considered that US co-operation was essential to the success of any initiative on global warming , since one-fifth of all " greenhouse gases " ( carbon dioxide , chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs , nitrous oxide , methane and surface ozone ) were produced in the USA . |
| 29 | Programme editor Lewis Bronze was pleased with the day 's work . |
| 30 | In Britain advertising was unsophisticated until the mid-nineteenth century . |