Example sentences of "a [noun sg] was [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a notice of appeal dated 24 December 1991 the local authority appealed with leave of the judge on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law or misdirected himself as to the criteria to be applied to the decision whether leave should be granted in respect of an application by a former foster parent ; ( 2 ) the judge should have applied the test whether ( a ) there were quite exceptional circumstances disclosed necessitating the ousting of the local authority and the consequent discharge of the care order , and ( b ) there was a real likelihood that the applicant could persuade the court to adopt that course and ( c ) such a course was in the interests of the children ; ( 3 ) alternatively , if the judge had adopted the correct test , his exercise of his discretion had been plainly wrong in that he had failed to give any or sufficient weight to ( a ) the disturbing effects on the children of further investigation , ( b ) the fact that if residence orders were made the care order would be discharged , ( c ) the shared responsibility between the foster mother and the mother resulting from section 12(2) of the Act of 1989 , ( d ) the fact that the foster mother 's proper remedy was her application for judicial review , and ( e ) the wishes of the children and the mother . |
| 2 | But a change was in the air , a season was drawing to a close . |
| 3 | The season had been a hard slog and he felt a break was in the player 's interests . |
| 4 | On the way , just before Andover , he shot Spicer in the back of the head and as a result was on the run from police for several weeks . |
| 5 | The video sat on the floor and a tape was in the machine . |
| 6 | If , for example , a horseman was in the field and the ploughing was going on extremely well , his stetches coming out neatly , with dead-straight furrows and a level ‘ top ’ , his mate sometimes called out in recognition of his prowess : |
| 7 | When we were moving or when he thought a search was in the offing he 'd hide it in his underpants . |
| 8 | After the price of Dixons shares staged a strong rise on Tuesday , Kingfisher felt obliged to broadcast a statement to the Stock Exchange first thing yesterday morning saying a bid was in the offing . |
| 9 | Kingfisher was forced to show its hand after rumours that a bid was in the offing began to circulate on Tuesday . |
| 10 | A constable was at the door to regulate the stream of people going into the chapel , and she was directed to the eastern gallery . |
| 11 | Jack had married the daughter of the Westward family , as unlikely a match as was ever known in the country , but necessary since a child was on the way . |
| 12 | He did it automatically whenever a guard was in the room . |
| 13 | It happened , however , that while I was at the College I had been approached by the Bristol University Board of Extra-Mural Studies , where a post was for the moment vacant organizing adult education work chiefly in Wiltshire . |
| 14 | Now Steve wanted to marry Maria Luisa and a war was on the cards when Fernando found out ! |
| 15 | His founding of a town was as the by-product of his business . |
| 16 | ( 102 ) Fortunately a gentleman was on the engine who knew the lad to be deaf … |
| 17 | Perhaps he would wait until a baby was on the way , for Mrs Darne had not failed to notice that these days extramarital pregnancy , once a horrible disgrace , was often the loudly publicized occasion for a wedding , with the bride , far from ashamed of herself , carrying all proudly before her . |
| 18 | There were one or two ladies in Baldersdale who were very good at midwifery , which was just as well when a baby was on the way and the doctor could n't get there in time , or the weather impeded him . |
| 19 | Despite this framework , Parliament can not be taken to have intended that making a demand was within the scope of the prohibition on commencing actions . |
| 20 | His last known employment as a surveyor was by the London Charterhouse , whose estates in Cambridgeshire and Wiltshire he surveyed from 1616 to 1618 . |
| 21 | A woman was in the act of opening the door of a pale blue Minor . |
| 22 | That evening , having explained that the best place to enjoy a peach was in the bath , Adam fed one slowly to Miranda . |
| 23 | What we did have difficulty was er with an odd occasion where a man was on the verge of being dismissed . |
| 24 | It was propped against the wall of a house , + a man was at the top of it , painting a wall with white paint . |
| 25 | The only way of getting to a magician was at the celebrations on Hallowe'en night , but after the broomstick display , which Mildred had ruined the year before , she felt very worried about creating any more havoc in that direction . |
| 26 | Yet it was hard to believe that the explanation for all this was that a schoolboy was in the hands of devils . |
| 27 | In May 1870 St Petersburg cotton spinners staged what was widely seen as Russia 's first fully fledged strike : within days a report was on the desk of the Tsar himself . |
| 28 | A PRISONER was on the run last night after giving his guards the slip while he was visiting his dying mother in hospital . |
| 29 | Our favourite place as a family was on the Church Hill , a pleasant area at the edge of The Heath . |
| 30 | One evening when their father casually mentioned that a murderer was on the loose in the vicinity , the children were too terrified to sleep , listening anxiously to every rattle , creak and squeak in the silent house . |