Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] was [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | & this Helianor was of the daughters , heirs |
| 2 | He decided that this clergyman was in the clouds and out of the reach of the common man . |
| 3 | What I said was there was some discretion was in the hands of the Home Secretary when he brought forward that commencement date and what he would have in mind is of course the er er not merely what happens er er i er erm in the er er our colleague countries in the community on their commencing er their changes , er but also in the kind of time we would actually need , political parties would need , candidates would need , to run an efficient election campaign here . |
| 4 | At the same time I became aware of the fact that this opera was on the stocks . |
| 5 | Interestingly , at the time of Burgess ' model , Sneinton and Radford were still on the outskirts of the city and this housing was for the workers at the Players , clothing , and Raleigh factories . |
| 6 | ‘ I went to Paris and I saw with my own eyes — either that or I was young and I dreamt it all — workers and students and young people together , fighting , helping each other-socialism was on the streets . ’ |
| 7 | One such collection was in the hands of Galileo 's Paduan friend , G. V. Pinelli . |
| 8 | On the Mexican Central Railway , the higher officials , engine-drivers , and conductors were all American at the turn of the century ( on the British-financed lines , many of these would have been British ) ; the brakesmen and station-masters were Mexican ; while all catering was in the hands of Chinese . |
| 9 | Will he explain exactly when it was discovered that that material was in the bags sent to Wandsworth prison and when the search for it started ? |