Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | MUSIC from the 17th and 18th centuries was on the programme when the ‘ Kist of Musick ’ Chamber ensemble visited the University . |
| 2 | Wall 's ( 1986 ) evidence shows that the really notable change between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries was in the smaller number of people living in other people 's homes as servants or lodgers . |
| 3 | One or your down-fine hairs was on the pillow : I picked it up like gold-dust-sweet relic ! |
| 4 | My first practical experience in the use of homoeopathic remedies was in the treatment of a child with croup . |
| 5 | ( One of the FPR 's main demands was for the return home of all Rwandan refugees . ) |
| 6 | During the Twenties and Thirties the tram service gradually expanded until , by August Bank Holiday 1933 , every one of the 156 cars was on the road . |
| 7 | The last increase in interest in diesel fleet cars was in the boom years of the mid-to-late Eighties . |
| 8 | The only heating in the Waaf huts was from the temperamental iron stove in the centre of each hut , and anyone who has had to struggle with one of these objects will appreciate what I 'm talking about . |
| 9 | In 1979 , National Savings was on the 18th issue of fixed interest certificates . |
| 10 | She chose to ignore him again , paddling on in silence , not knowing if the tension in her shoulders was from the unfamiliar strain of the exercise or from the unfamiliar strain of having eyes probe one 's back with habitual cynicism . |
| 11 | One of the few British medals at the last Olympics was in the Star two-man keelboat class , and our line-up for the 1992 Games in Barcelona is looking very strong in many of the ten different classes . |
| 12 | The emphasis in these speeches was on the need for unity and the avoidance of dissent in radio programmes . |
| 13 | Initial searches for homology between atk and other known gene sequences was through the EMBL nucleotide sequence database . |
| 14 | Piers was in the living-room as they walked in , half naked , the top button of his faded jeans undone . |
| 15 | The court said that the decision whether to close the schools was within the area of discretion left to the authority . |
| 16 | Before the end of the six months was up the other judges were trying to steal the devices and put their own people on it . |
| 17 | Taken together the expansion of the middle-class suburbs was from about 28 , inhabitants in 1871 to over three-quarters of a million ( 808,000 ) just after World War I. The other large suburbs , of mixed population , though with working-class majorities , experienced similar trajectories : Lichtenberg grew from 4,700 in 1871 to 145,000 in 1919 , Rixdorf/ Neukolln from 8,145 to 262,000 , and Spandau from 20,500 to 95,500.10 The total population growth of just these large above-mentioned mainly working-class districts was of the order of 1.3 million from 1871 to World War I , a phenomenon which taken together with the revolutionary uprising of 1918 must have been frightening to Berlin 's middle classes in a manner hardly imaginable today . |
| 18 | In the closing years of the nineteenth century , just as the eastern Germans were leaving the land and deserting the east , at the very time that the Polish population of the border districts was on the rise , the theoretical and practical policies of both the Polenpolitik and the Kulturkampf were hardening around the drive towards industrial and imperial expansion — if not overseas , which was almost impossible — then in the eastern borderlands . |
| 19 | The sticking point for purists was over the balance to be struck between state power and voluntary efforts . |
| 20 | The V-1 Buzz-Bomb assault on London began on June 12 , 1944 and Sugar 's first attack against their launching sites was on the night of June 24 when it attacked a site at Prouville with P/O G C Skelton in command . |
| 21 | The first time I ever saw one of the keys was in the Chatila camp in Beirut in 1977 . |
| 22 | The release of PGE 3 in eicosapentaenoic acid fed rats was below the detection limit of our combined HPLC-RIA method . |
| 23 | The question of how to deal with errors was at the heart of the debates in the central commission in the twelve months that preceded the Council . |
| 24 | The privatization of up to 40 state-owned companies was at the centre of the governments economic recovery plan . |
| 25 | The US junk bond market suffered its latest setback yesterday after buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts said one of its companies was on the verge of bankruptcy , writes Mary Brasier in New York . |
| 26 | Shackleton et al. ( 1982 ) thought the thickness of Late Palaeozoic sediments eroded in the area of the West of England granites was of the order of 5 km . |
| 27 | One of the earliest of these settlements was on the island of Torcello on the Venetian Lagoon , and nearby Venice was established later . |
| 28 | The win at Bristol Rovers was in the Coca Cola Cup . |
| 29 | The majority of the inhabitants were still the middling farmers of old , but the number of landless cottagers was on the increase . |
| 30 | We got bread , no we got bread and then the only time we got chips was in the middle of the week . |