Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | OF ALL cell ingredients , one might guess that calcium was among the least important . |
| 2 | The only solid bit was at the front . |
| 3 | The triumphant jockey , whose only previous win at Classic level was in the Italian St Leger , gave a victory salute with his whip when passing the post . |
| 4 | But that difficulty was in the end surmounted and , on the whole , the writing was easy and pleasurable . |
| 5 | I had a relatively easy morning , joining James and Cathy Lane once the 409 litres ( 90gal ) of Friesian milk was in the vat in the dairy at 7.30am ( they had risen at 5.30 to do the milking ) . |
| 6 | The agreement in that case was between the owner of a piano ( a dealer ) and his customer . |
| 7 | The dead were named last night as Mr Paul Gordon Butt , 29 , a securities dealer , Mr Thomas Casey , 49 , a door keeper , and Danielle Carter , 15 , whose eight-year-old sister was among the injured . |
| 8 | However , he submitted that even if the trial judge had misdirected the jury when he told them that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what it was proved that he himself had done , that misdirection was to the advantage of the first appellant . |
| 9 | The largest reduction was in the number of elderly casualties . |
| 10 | The literary truth is that Modernism was in the end a starved and blighted world , joylessly based on a denial that language can depict the real . |
| 11 | In later years the dry dock was under the control of Marr & Co. but following the building of the new bridge at Bernard Street , only small vessels and yachts could pass under the bridge and reach the dock . |
| 12 | The technical college was on the outskirts of town , miles away from the cinema . |
| 13 | Although arrangements differed in detail from one place to another the usual practice was for the management to allow a preliminary meeting in works time at which the aims of the WEA could be explained and for those apprentices interested to stay behind to plan a course . |
| 14 | A further freedom was from the thrall of death — whose sting is fear , through Christ we see that death is not final . |
| 15 | It was as though an extraordinary story — a great mythology , with half-forgotten legends , languages and lore — had been unfolding in his head from the time he began to think ; and his appreciation of the Old Literature was at the deepest level imaginative and creative . |
| 16 | He accepted however that once this case was over the real hunt for more suitable accommodation would begin and by that time , at least , there could be the introduction of such a carer . |
| 17 | The proper course was for the insurance company to apply to remove the stay in the plaintiff 's action . |
| 18 | The commercial settlement was with the South Western Regional Health Authority and concerned an alkali silica reaction — concrete cancer — in the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital . |
| 19 | This expertise was behind the opening of the North Terminal at Gatwick , the new Terminal 4 at Heathrow and the rebuilding of Terminal 3 to give far greater comfort than before . |
| 20 | The last possible moment for a negotiated settlement was in the third week of September . |
| 21 | The next national issue to take the form of open public discontent was in the summer of 1987 when a group of about 700 Crimean Tatars staged an unprecedented demonstration in Red Square . |
| 22 | The modernist and Nietzschean devastation of the idea of historical progress was at the same time a devastation of assumptions of order , authority , stability , consonance , and repose . |
| 23 | Civil servants were keen to discern how widespread public support was for the new measures , though they were aware , as they euphemistically put it , that there would be ‘ cause for complaint ’ with the government if the bill were blocked . |
| 24 | British Aerospace was amongst the features today when it lost 12 pence to four hundred and fif , five hundred and forty one pence on rumours that the Saudis had cancelled some Tornado options . |
| 25 | One clear change was in the status of women . |
| 26 | Most of this industry was on the coalfield at Coatbridge and in the Clyde valley from Motherwell to Glasgow . |
| 27 | On his brief visit to Cambodia he met Dith Pran for the first time , but his longest stretch was from the beginning of January 1975 until the fall of Phnom Penh in April of that year . |
| 28 | Byrne 's letter was very nearly counterproductive , as it convinced Smith 's trade union backers that the sooner this contest was over the better . |
| 29 | ( All this action was at the furthest end from where Leeds fans were stood , so I could n't see much . |
| 30 | French aplomb was to the fore as Auguste handed the crab to them along with the hook , raised his new Panama hat and bade them a courteous farewell . |