Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] was [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that difficulty was in the end surmounted and , on the whole , the writing was easy and pleasurable . |
| 2 | The agreement in that case was between the owner of a piano ( a dealer ) and his customer . |
| 3 | However , he submitted that even if the trial judge had misdirected the jury when he told them that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what it was proved that he himself had done , that misdirection was to the advantage of the first appellant . |
| 4 | The literary truth is that Modernism was in the end a starved and blighted world , joylessly based on a denial that language can depict the real . |
| 5 | This expertise was behind the opening of the North Terminal at Gatwick , the new Terminal 4 at Heathrow and the rebuilding of Terminal 3 to give far greater comfort than before . |
| 6 | Most of this industry was on the coalfield at Coatbridge and in the Clyde valley from Motherwell to Glasgow . |
| 7 | An RAF Warrant Officer in the Medical Administration branch , this Veteran was in the war from the start , helping to set up a field hospital . |
| 8 | & this Helianor was of the daughters , heirs |
| 9 | Clearly some of this work was beyond the scope of the youngest children , nevertheless the reception class joined in wherever possible and their teacher attended all staff meetings and discussions . |
| 10 | The emphasis in this work was on the collection of statistical data , i.e. in the form of numbers , rather than descriptions of particular ways of life . |
| 11 | This issue was at the heart of the Report of the Layfield Committee on Local Government Finance ( Cmnd 6453 ) published in 1976 . |
| 12 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 13 | So he said , you were on the right and this lady was on the left near the gutter side ? |
| 14 | Most of this capacity was in the Khuzestan area , where prospecting began in the early years of this century , culminating in the discovery in 1908 of the first of a cluster of oil-bearing structures identified in a northwest-southeast trend on a flank of the Zagros mountain range . |
| 15 | He was alarmed at the possibility that this lad was from the village and that the village was rife with gossip . |
| 16 | Tacitus tells us that this incursion was into the territory of Rome 's allies , and this could place it in the lower Severn , where Caratacus could have linked up with the other group of dissidents in the south-west still smarting from the operations of Vespasian , who with his sea-borne mobility swept right along the south coast , taking the Britons by surprise . |
| 17 | ‘ And this picture was on the easel then ? ’ |
| 18 | A false impression of this sort was at the heart of the London Fox property futures scandal . |
| 19 | One of the most important changes in pub design during this period was in the plan . |
| 20 | He decided that this clergyman was in the clouds and out of the reach of the common man . |
| 21 | It would seem that this distinction was in the mind of the United Kingdom delegation in formulating their Working Document No. 10 , and that the subsequent references to ‘ discovery ’ served only to confuse the issues . |
| 22 | Although outside the sun was shining and this room was in the front of the house , no glimmer of sunlight filtered through the venetian blinds and the half-drawn curtains , only a dusty grey luminosity which seemed to chill the room . |
| 23 | This place was like the garden of Eden , she thought whimsically , and she did n't know if the job here was a serpent 's temptation or a golden apple . |
| 24 | When the directors of the London and North Western Railway organised their company in the last century they decided to build an engineering works , for locomotives and rolling stock , near the centre of their network , and this point was in the countryside at Crewe . |
| 25 | This investigation was into the feasibility of building a plant to make 10,000 tonnes of pellets a year from waste collected from the larger Swansea shops . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In the city where James Watt had harnessed the pressure of steam to create the Industrial Revolution , thousands of men and women were being driven into the Square by the piston of Government , fearful that another revolution was in the making . |
| 28 | At the same time I became aware of the fact that this opera was on the stocks . |
| 29 | This collection was in the care of the Royal College of Surgeons ; and other medical societies and medical schools built up museums where the student could study at leisure , augmenting what he had learned from lectures and dissections and at the bedside . |
| 30 | One can only surmise that this arrangement was for the programming convenience of the television station which covered the matches . |