Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] was [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 If the trough cyclosporin level was in the therapeutic range ( 80–120 ng/ml ) and the rise in serum creatinine did not correct after reducing the dose , then treatment was discontinued until the serum creatinine returned to pretreatment values .
2 Large scale drug smuggling was on the increase , and a more professional approach to combat this was being used by the law-enforcement teams .
3 Levi 's support base was within the large Sephardi community ( members or descendants of the western branch of European Jews who settled in Spain and Portugal and latterly in north Africa , as opposed to the Askhenazi — the northern European Yiddish-speaking Jews ) , and many of his supporters claimed that the Shamir-Arens-Sharon collaboration had been nothing short of ethnic discrimination by the " Ashkenazi bosses " .
4 Levi , whose support base was within the large Sephardi community , had suffered a humiliating defeat in internal Likud elections held in early March , and accused the Prime Minister and Likud leader , Itzhak Shamir , of promoting ethnic discrimination against his community .
5 His first major field research was among the Nupe people of Northern Nigeria , and on his second field research period there , 1935-36 , he wrote up a work journal which has never been published .
6 By the turn of the century , alignment research was on the increase , although it was being carried on by individuals working in isolation from each other .
7 It was six months before their debut album was in the shops and by that time public interest in them had waned .
8 Charles Hernu , bombarded the conference delegates with sweet talk on how useful defence research was for the civil sector and how good they were to researchers .
9 In this respect , the opinions of the parliamentary leadership were not dissimilar to those of the majority of Labour supporters , but this congruence does not invalidate the claim that Labour 's substantive and definite electoral support bloc was on the decline , and was being replaced , at least at the margin , by a more conditional and circumspect form of popular support .
10 His cheque card was on the table .
11 Other than in Ipswich , where the WEA branch was among the small group of vigorous , active and well-organised centres in the District , there appeared to be little prospect for development without LEA-funded support in the pre-war years and , as in West Suffolk , the development of a substantial WEA presence did not occur until after the 1939–45 war .
12 The only styling change was to the headlamps with the plexiglass shells removed .
13 From the equipment , we can see that the Frankish horse soldier was in the earliest stages of development into the armed and armoured knight of later centuries .
14 Luke 's wedding ring was on the table , close to her hand , and her eyes were wide open , like the eyes of someone who has just woken up .
15 The agreed plan for a postgraduate institute was on the basis that it would be partly financed by National Health Service funds — a commitment made in writing at the time by the then Scottish health minister , Michael Forsyth .
16 They had still not turned up by two o'clock , and since their sandwich lunch was in the car , Jack and Warnie were feeling ‘ uncommonly peckish ’ .
17 Our concern as Borough Council was with the er inner relief road options that that had links into the urban area .
18 The duty officer at the Cabinet Office Briefing Room was at the centre of a web of information technology .
19 Where the gallery projects from the first floor of the house , the wool room was in the house on the first floor .
20 A fine barn lies beyond and the wool room was in the house on the first floor away from the gallery .
21 Then Ted 's Blacksmiths shop was on the r corner .
22 As the burial mound was of the period known as the Bronze Age , the horn and the mound could belong to the same period .
23 Additionally , the Hammer community was in the process of housing redevelopment , and many in-group members had moved out of the immediate area .
24 The wind sock was on the northern edge .
25 Amongst the villagers , the division on Friday night was between the men , who had been in the pub and could vouch for each other , and the wives , who had been watching telly at home and could n't , but who seemed knowledgeable , when pressed , about a number of ITV programmes .
26 ‘ We admit there was a time when the North-East service was among the worst in the country in terms of reliability but we have had a massive turnaround of fortune . ’
27 The peak of Kendal 's wool trade was in the 17th and early 18th Centuries and Hawkshead 's prosperity waned with that of Kendal .
28 The congregation was a colourful mixture of students , teaching staff , and parishioners and at least one College Principal was in the congregation .
29 The frontier checkpoint was in the little village of Nadlac .
30 The smell of Dada 's cut grass was in the air .
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