Example sentences of "that the [noun sg] was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an affidavit sworn on 17 December 1991 ‘ to assist the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in relation to the conduct of the [ defendant 's ] trial ’ Mr. Pantry stated that the addendum was in the case file which was given to him when he was assigned to prosecute . |
| 2 | Then I slowly turned the can and the leg the other way up , so that the can was over the leg . |
| 3 | Anger gave her the strength to pack her few belongings and by the time Ellen — red-eyed and in tears — came to say that the conveyance was at the door , there was no sign left that Ruth had ever inhabited the room . |
| 4 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 5 | This meant that a condition for the exercise of the power was that the land was of the appropriate type . |
| 6 | They believed that the land was under the care and guardianship of the people who used it and lived on it . |
| 7 | They were extravagantly to his advantage , save when she lowered her voice to sigh , tapping her left side familiarly : " And all overclouded by this , you know — all at the mercy of a weakness — ( 9 ) Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart ( 10 ) . |
| 8 | This impression is backed up by the following sentence , which stands out as being the shortest and most straightforward sentence in the extract : Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart ( 10 ) . |
| 9 | These express the content of Pemberton 's inner consciousness : " Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart " ( 10 ) : " he would have liked to hear the figure of his salary " ( 3 ) . |
| 10 | During their conversation , he realised that the vision was for the present and not 4 years in the future . |
| 11 | Now , however , Rosemerry admits that the success was worth the sacrifice . |
| 12 | The fact that the secondment was in the part of MOPs where I had worked on summer vacations nearly thirty years ago was an added incentive . |
| 13 | Last October when Drouot salerooms carried out their regular annual inspection of Ader Tajan 's accounts , rumours — quickly denied by Drouot Chairman Joel Millon — began circulating that the company was on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 14 | Sources from both clubs said they understood the new bid was from the same source , but an Argyll spokesman refused to confirm or deny that the company was behind the bid . |
| 15 | er and erm the fact that the colour was in the glass not on the glass . |
| 16 | He may have realised earlier than most of us that the King was in the long run unfitted to be King . |
| 17 | Occasionally the pressure for favours from a voter who felt that the obligation was on the other side , because of the applicant 's voting record , could be excessive , and it might be pushed far beyond what the politician would consider reasonable . |
| 18 | His army colleagues are upset that he has admitted in his book that the government was behind the killing of an estimated 10,000 people in a ten-day crack-down on ’ organised ’ crime in Jakarta in 1983 . |
| 19 | I was also careful to explain BW 's policy as regards cycling on the towpath , and I emphasised that the work was for the benefit of all users and gave Spokes members no rights whatsoever . |
| 20 | I was also careful to explain BW 's policy as regards cycling on the towpath , and emphasised that the work was for the benefit of all users and gave Spokes members no rights whatsoever . |
| 21 | However , recently a spokesman for a well-known oil company claimed that they were really the Davids in this country and that the boot WAS on the other foot' Doubtless , central and local government would also claim that they are simply the servants of the public and not their masters . |
| 22 | During this process it was suggested that a dummy engine be installed to save time and weight , but this idea was rejected on the grounds that the idea was for the Norseman to be as live an aircraft as it could be , and for it to taxi from the hangar in which is was being restored , across Howey Bay , to its position on the shoreline , adjacent to where it would be mounted on the pole . |
| 23 | But what was clear is that editors , believing that the play was about the intrinsically moral Brutus , could not accept a feigning Brutus and so explained away , or repressed , the scene where that role playing is most formally represented . |
| 24 | Earlier in the year fittingly , during Passover , the festival which celebrates the Israelites ' escape from Egypt and the beginning of the journey which eventually took them to the Promised Land — Rabbi Moishe announced with quiet satisfaction that their contributions had mounted up to a sum sufficient to buy three hundred dunams of land in Palestine , that the purchase was in the process of being arranged on their behalf by the Jewish National Fund , and that he himself would lead an advance party of settlers from Cork before the end of 1920 . |
| 25 | Hope could picture himself comforting Mrs Crump , shoring up the memory of her husband , praising him , assessing him , recalling ‘ mots ’ , reporting favourable comments , and then in would come the daughter , dressed entirely in black , and he would say , would be forced to say no matter what the consequences were , that the child was like the man . |
| 26 | No reply came , and he assumed that the minister was of the same cold fashion as his wife . |
| 27 | If he was a zealot , it was in his strict adherence to his Faith ; if he was bigoted , it was in his belief that the kirk was of the people and answerable to no master other than God . |
| 28 | Finally , this evangelist is as well aware as Mark that the Spirit was during the ministry concentrated , as it were , in Jesus , and will only be available to the disciples when they , too , are engaged in the mission . |
| 29 | The archaeological evidence is necessarily very incomplete , but it suggests that the temple was at the centre of a town whose built-up area was approximately 1,200 metres from north to south and 800 metres from east to west . |
| 30 | Yet in an article published a decade later , Herz reassessed his claims and retracted his thesis that the state was on the way out . |