Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The set of rooms assigned to the TAS unit was at the rear with its own entrance and allocated car parking . |
| 2 | Other than in Ipswich , where the WEA branch was among the small group of vigorous , active and well-organised centres in the District , there appeared to be little prospect for development without LEA-funded support in the pre-war years and , as in West Suffolk , the development of a substantial WEA presence did not occur until after the 1939–45 war . |
| 3 | Once again , Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra were in the forefront . |
| 4 | The Swan Inn was on the far side of the village from Fern Cottage , situated close to the bridge over the river Windrush . |
| 5 | The Harvard dealer was on the sharp end of clients ' complaints . |
| 6 | The Bristol team was in the process of discovering that in addition to the light electron and heavy proton and neutron there are particles of intermediate masses which they named ‘ mesotrons ’ . |
| 7 | When the Cleveland affair was in the news in 1987/88 I wrote about becoming a father , which was the most wonderful experience — I felt completely liberated by it ; and then I was being told that all men were potential child abusers because they were so emotionally retarded . |
| 8 | The leadership also has a new control , which makes it less likely to be unhorsed by its own interest-groups than the Callaghan Government was in the late 1970s . |
| 9 | The characteristic emphasis of the Princeton theology was on the inspired and infallible authority of the Bible . |
| 10 | The Oxford group was at the forefront of X-ray crystallography , a technique for deducing atomic architecture from the way X-rays are scattered . |
| 11 | FIVE prisoners being tried in connection with the Strangeways riot were on the run last night after escaping from a court . |
| 12 | All the same , the Joyce family was in the first of many groups to endure the consequences of allegiance to an ousted imperial power . |
| 13 | In any case , the result of the Barcelona match was in the Sunday papers . |
| 14 | The 29 booksellers and stationers responding to the CBI survey were among the disappointed retailers , with 59% reporting sales volume down on a year ago and 57% describing the volume of sales as poor for the time of year . |
| 15 | 5 years to the day , the Rogers family were in the television room of the Herald of Free Enterprise , when it capsized just outside Zeebrugge . |
| 16 | For Chapman , however , the Leeds affair was in the dim and distant past as he steered Huddersfield Town to a second League Championship . |
| 17 | The court heard that the IRA victim was in the habit of visiting his mother , who was in her 80s , at her Ballycastle home at weekends . |