Example sentences of "was [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1627 Buckingham 's pro-Catholic foreign policy had collapsed , and he was bent on a French war ; the need now was for the service of men with enough local influence to raise money for this purpose . |
| 2 | The track that crosses the BCR at Longville Bridge runs below the railway at this point , and perhaps the screen was for the benefit of users of the track , but as it is also below the railway on the opposite side of the ford , and no screen was suggested there , it seems doubtful that this was the reason . |
| 3 | The plaintiffs claimed repayment of the purchase price on the basis that the contract was for the sale of goods by description within s13(1) of SGA 1979 and could , therefore , be avoided on the grounds of misdescription . |
| 4 | It was through the use of tactics such as these that the leaders of the LNA sought to shift the representations of sexuality which had been crystallized by the medical profession and their sanitary supporters . |
| 5 | But I think the other incredibly important thing that you said was about the number of boys here from public schools as well and I think that |
| 6 | It was like the change of seasons . |
| 7 | It was like the course of trials which underline so many of the great myths and fairy stories and narratives . |
| 8 | The low murmur of conversation in the hotel 's sun lounge was like the crashing of waves to Kelly as she entered to see Annie at a corner table . |
| 9 | Her speech was like the twittering of bats . |
| 10 | It was like the sound of fingernails being dragged down a blackboard . |
| 11 | His only concern was with the integrity of souls in obedience to the laws of God . |
| 12 | Prisoners being trained in woodwork explained that their major frustration was with the shortage of tools and materials . |
| 13 | His concern was with the consciousness of groups , specifically classes and particularly the proletariat . |
| 14 | The High Court in Edinburgh was told that McDonald was under the influence of drugs when he entered the bank and vaulted a counter . |
| 15 | Roach , who was a producer , director and screenwriter , had been ill for some time and was under the care of doctors of the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital , a hospital spokeswoman said . |
| 16 | The Labour Party and the TUC remained " against any form of Means Test at all " , but they discouraged association with the NUWM which was under the control of Communists , particularly of Wal Hannington and Harry McShane . |
| 17 | Morning by morning in my regular reading , which at the time was in the Song of Songs , I heard the Lord calling me to a new stage in ministry . |
| 18 | The most powerful weapon in twelfth-century warfare was the castle ; and the chief development in military technology in our period was in the architecture of castles and the technique of their destruction , and in siegecraft in general . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yet they all seemed to stand in that wind Ruth could n't feel , and she knew she was in the presence of men greater than kings . |
| 21 | Without having to be told , she knew at once two or , rather , three things : the Second Front had begun , John was in the vanguard of operations and that she would never see him again . |
| 22 | Orphaned in infancy , Lowther , together with his surviving sister , Frances , was in the guardianship of trustees , two of whom , his grandmother , Dame Eleanor Lowther , and his uncle , Sir William Lowther , were probably responsible for his upbringing . |
| 23 | For instance , they discovered how useful honey was in the treatment of wounds and it was thanks to people 's participation that the best ways of applying it to particular kinds of wounds were developed . |
| 24 | It was in the promotion of canons and prebendaries that Edward most tenaciously defended his patronage claims against papal interference . |
| 25 | When the prophet Ezekiel was in the valley of bones he prophesied to the bones and made them join up together . |
| 26 | Raistrick 's prime interest was in the biochemistry of moulds , and he was not particularly aiming to isolate antibacterial agents from them . |
| 27 | Adam phoned home and asked his mother to stop his father bothering him when he was in the middle of exams . |
| 28 | I was in the middle of papers [ he wrote ] when Mr Stanley Baldwin was announced at the door . |
| 29 | I was in the company of madmen . |
| 30 | He was in the forefront of experiments in mining technology , and an advocate of improved safety lamps , shaft detaching hooks , and coal-cutting machinery . |