Example sentences of "[noun] was [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This confirmed intra and extrahepatic duct dilatation in 31 patients ( 77% ) , cholecystolithiasis in 19 of the 32 patients ( 60% ) in whom the gall bladder was in place . |
| 2 | A SCUBA diver was in hospital last night after surviving a 20-minute battle with a man-eating shark . |
| 3 | and your instrument panel started showing that the wheels had fallen off and one wheel was on fire first thing we had to think was are the reading correct ! |
| 4 | Wilson , whose rejection of religion was on account of its encouragement of so much evil . |
| 5 | Religion was to Marx an illusion , a fantasy created by men as a result of the class struggle . |
| 6 | I had no reason to suppose that the letter was anything but genuine — it was on the shipping company 's notepaper , and , insofar as such recollections are of any value , the signature at first glance was in keeping with the signature I remembered vaguely from my days at Upper Thames Street . |
| 7 | One such association was with R.A.F. Medmenham , the origins of which perhaps date to the early part of the last War when Danesfield House at Medmenham was taken over by the R.A.F. as its photographic unit , although the first reference in the Minutes is October 1953 . |
| 8 | She and Miranda talked ; Xanthe was at dayschool in London , but riding was her passion , she was learning dressage on a black mare with a white star and three white pasterns . |
| 9 | Mrs Young told her that the madman who had mischievously unhitched the car was hours behind us in Cartier , but Xanthe was beyond reassurance . |
| 10 | However , Wouters suggests that Elias was in fact aware that the process he had identified was not unidimensional : |
| 11 | First there were the stories that Kylie was in fact a complete fabrication . |
| 12 | Tears stung her eyes a moment at the thought of her sister losing her identity ; Jezrael asked herself if the grief was for Ches or selfishly for her own loss . |
| 13 | The aid was in addition to grants of US$553,400,000 announced earlier in the month . |
| 14 | He stressed that the aid was in recognition of the moves in both countries toward economic reform and democracy . |
| 15 | My own background before joining Christian Aid was in adult education , in both the tertiary education sector , and in the nonformal sector . |
| 16 | Niki 's three hard-earned points made the score 64 to 47 and the race was no sooner ended than the Ferrari dirty-tricks brigade was at work again in Paris , wrapping up their exclusion of Hunt from the podium at Brands Hatch . |
| 17 | New stock was of course required for the proposed Thameslink service , and Chris Green formally accepted the first Class 319 dual-voltage unit at BREL York on 2 September . |
| 18 | After a survey of 140 local authorities , the RIBA concluded that the total backlog of repairs and maintenance work to the public sector housing stock was in excess of £10 billion . |
| 19 | Davidson was the first Anglo-Scot to play international rugby ; the first of the Royal Indian Engineering College forward 's two caps was against England in 1873 , still in the days of 20-a-side , and rarely since then have the exiles not been represented in Scotland 's team . |
| 20 | Middlesbrough 's Mayor Eddie Bolland was on board the 3,200ton ship , keeping alive the links which begun in 1975 until the last possible minute . |
| 21 | Ex-international Janet Swan played an exhibition game and gave expert tips , and Mayor Eddie Bolland was on hand to present the prizes . |
| 22 | It is known that Aymer was in France in 1299 , 1301 , 1302 , 1303 , 1304 , and made at least twelve visits between 1307 and 1324 , three of them in 1313 . |
| 23 | A shapeless bundle of dirty rags was in front of her , the face no more than a grey shadow . |
| 24 | Villa claim the Juventus deal was worth £7.5m if the valuation of players included in part exchange is taken into account . |
| 25 | Under their memorandum of understanding , Cox will take an initial 25% in the UK operations currently owned by Southwestern Bell , with options to increase its stake ; Cox declined to comment on speculation that the deal was worth $300m . |
| 26 | ‘ The directors have been impotent because the deal was between Martin Edwards and Michael Knighton . |
| 27 | The report noted that ISC was in dispute with the US Department of Defence over $4m of incurred costs relating to an ISC subsidiary and noted the acquisition would ‘ lessen the group 's attractiveness to a bidder ’ . |
| 28 | Manager Lennie Lawrence hinted Falconer was in need of a rest after a hectic comeback spell . |
| 29 | The Countess Alexander of Tunis was in attendance . |
| 30 | ( The smallest electorate was in Scotland — Glasgow Central , with 19,826 electors . ) |