Example sentences of "that [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 | Now although the only known brother of Æthelred named Edmund died in the early 970s , when Thietmar of Merseburg describes events in England in 1016 he tells how , after a battle in which Edmund was killed , the Danes fled from before London because they had heard that help was on the way from Edmund 's brother Æthelstan and the Britannis . |
| 6 | cos that telephone was in the hall |
| 7 | One wrong move and all that in-fighting was on the line , would be thrown away . |
| 8 | That lady was in the Kray Brothers . |
| 9 | That girl was in the doorway for nearly fifteen seconds ! |
| 10 | They were entitled in my judgment to take into account the actual use by the defendant company and the previous owner in determining what the ordinary use of that vehicle was on the road so far as it is relevant to the question they had to answer . |
| 11 | I do not think that that point was in the mind of either Lord Greene or Scrutton L.J. , but the former in the words above quoted , expressed something with which I respectfully agree , and which seems plain , namely , that an absolute order for possession made against a tenant fundamentally alters the position . |
| 12 | By the end of 1922 the figure had jumped to a remarkable 155 , showing that recovery was on the way and economic activity increasing . |
| 13 | She was not fooled for an instant nor so cut off from news that she had not heard that war was in the air again . |
| 14 | The Macedonian government was able to press its claim for recognition , which had been blocked by Greece , by threatening that war was around the corner . |
| 15 | ‘ That intervention was by the malice of evil men , ’ said Herluin , roused and fiery of eye . |
| 16 | The part which caught his eye so dramatically that day was in the Spaniard 's great work ‘ Divan del Tamarit ’ ( 1936 , quoted from The Selected Poems of Federico Garçia Lorca , Ed . |
| 17 | In s. 9(1) ( a ) it is not necessary to show that the accused intended to take a specific object or even that that object was in the building : A-G 's Refs ( Nos 1 and 2 of 1979 ) [ 1980 ] QB 180 ( CA ) . |
| 18 | I would n't do it now because I , ever since that , that woman was on the train was stabbed and thrown out , I would n't go alone on holidays now but in those days , well maybe I was a lot , course I was younger then but you never heard of such things |
| 19 | On Boxing Day , she returned to the Hamiltons ' , to learn from Mrs Porter that Bill was at the hospital , and that Dr Greene planned to discharge Faye that afternoon . |
| 20 | The tribunal decided that the payment related to a standard-rated supply of services by the tenant in the course of his business because ( a ) the landlord provided consideration , and ( b ) that consideration was for the tenant doing something ( signing the lease with the repair clause ) . |
| 21 | And probably he would have found the Whistler more understandable than the pop star whose gyrations would surely have convinced him that man was in the grip of his final , manic St Vitus 's dance . |
| 22 | Most important of all , John 's Gospel claims that the Passover that year was on the Sabbath . |
| 23 | I was advised by my legal advisers in the Department , and subsequently by first Treasury counsel , that that order was beyond the power of the court , and I was given leave to apply for it to be varied or discharged . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | In other cases the fact that the rent was to be " conclusively fixed " by the landlord 's trigger notice if the tenant failed to give counter-notice in time was held to be a sufficient indication that time was of the essence ( Mammoth Greeting Cards v Agra [ 1990 ] 2 EGLR 124 ; Barrett Estate Services v David Greig ( Retail ) [ 1991 ] 2 EGLR 123 ) . |
| 26 | The court held that time was of the essence of the timetable . |
| 27 | It was held that time was of the essence . |
| 28 | And the only way of boiling the water at that time was on the stove in the house . |
| 29 | The received military wisdom on prisoners was that time was on the captor 's side . |
| 30 | After some enquiries from Peter Thomas , who at that time was in the process of forming the Skyfame Aircraft Museum at Staverton , Glos , the Swedish company decided to donate the Firefly to the Museum , providing that sufficient funds could be raised to finance the flight from Sweden to England . |