Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time these clubs met was at Wembley in the 1983 FA Cup final , a game that needed two bites for United before they finally ran out winners . |
| 2 | Hence the provision made was in the form of public sector over spill , particularly at Longbenton , but also within Wallsend and Tyne mouth County Borough . |
| 3 | The final , symbolic point on which Branson relented was in giving Oldfield an increased royalty on all future sales of Tubular Bells . |
| 4 | An important study Haworth made was on how the disaccharides — compounds , including table sugar , made up from two basic carbohydrate units — are linked together . |
| 5 | The entire replica fleet aboard the carrier flown was from the deck into the rising sun of the east in some of the most visually stunning scenes of the film . |
| 6 | Held , allowing the appeal , that it was a requirement of all leases and tenancy agreements that the term created was of certain duration ; that the lease purportedly created under the memorandum of agreement , being for an uncertain period , was void and the land was held on a yearly tenancy created by virtue of the tenant 's possession and payment of yearly rent , on such terms of the memorandum of agreement as were consistent with a yearly tenancy ; and that , accordingly , since the term preventing the landlord from determining the tenancy until the land was required for road widening purposes was inconsistent with the right of either party under a yearly tenancy to determine it on six months ' notice , the plaintiffs ' tenancy had been lawfully determined ( post , pp. 283B–C , F–G , 284G–H , 285E–F , 286E–F , H — 287B , G–H ) . |
| 7 | The data prepared was for directories such as Crockford 's Clerical Directory and the OUP General Catalogue . |
| 8 | Where Nonconformist preachers differed was in their isolation : they stood alone without a liturgy on which to fall back or a priestly vocation which made good preaching a desirable but not essential option . |
| 9 | The first record of the term ‘ long-firm fraud ’ which Levi uncovers was in a journal of 1869 , while the obtaining of goods under the false pretence that one had an honest and solvent business is an activity with a much longer history . |
| 10 | The first of these disputes to emerge was in the Caucasus , where the most serious civil disturbances in Soviet post-war history took place between Armenians and Azerbaijanis over the disputed territorial enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 11 | Tonight , police said one of the drivers killed was from Northampton . |
| 12 | The head stressed that what Balbinder needed was to be in a small group , not in a class of twenty-three . |
| 13 | Similarly in Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 2 All ER 266 the seller of a car was guilty of a total failure to perform where the car delivered was in such a poor condition that it was totally incapable of self-propulsion and could not properly be described as a " car " . |
| 14 | The number of sureties needed was in proportion to the sum borrowed , one housekeeper for £5 , two for £10 and so on . |
| 15 | He was aware that what exactly the words meant was in a curious way less urgently important than the necessity of uttering them . |
| 16 | What was read aid preached was to me airy nothing . |
| 17 | The renunciation of any attempt to tax was at once cause and symptom of the state 's demise . |
| 18 | The range from the firing point to where the rounds impacted was between 35 metres ( the shot that hit Barling ) and 30 metres ( the ones that hit the pillar ) … ’ |
| 19 | This was to have been changed by clause 54(4) under which the benefit received was to be assessed at the arm 's length price which an ordinary member of the public would have paid for that service . |
| 20 | The equipment listed was in use in 1989 for a maximum of 30 windsurf guests . |
| 21 | As the number of Neons added was to be quite high , I decided to add them alone . |
| 22 | The adjournment ordered was until 2 July 1991 . |
| 23 | All sorts of questions and issues were covered , far exceeding what the official election committee felt was in order . |
| 24 | that went out to erm making up argu , you know if you 'd fallen out with somebody you had to make up with them before the bells , and in fact what my granny did was to erm to empty the fire and to relay the fire for the new year |
| 25 | erm for various things and er one of the earliest er minor awards which the Education Committee had was to erm a girl from Ruth who wanted to take erm erm a course for erm the N P S , the Pharmaceutical er Society 's |
| 26 | In 1984 , the Court of Session in Edinburgh ( Hay/Briton against Central Regional Council ) refused a 53 year old grandmother custody or access to her six year old grandchild , though it was agreed that the ‘ most significant relationship ’ the child had was with this grandmother . |
| 27 | It is possible that one of the epitaphs Leapor wrote was for Mary Freemantle , rather than for her own mother as first seems likely [ ML , 1 , 263 ] . |
| 28 | Mr McCormick submitted that if any one of the mother 's reasons was possibly valid then it could not be said that the mother 's refusal to consent was outside the reasonable band . |
| 29 | The first device found was in a toy shop . |
| 30 | George Headley and Learie Constantine were the giants of the early Test years who did most to establish the team ; Garfield Sobers was for twenty years the supreme all-rounder of the game 's history ; Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them . |