Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that this was done only where there was a public interest , but we have already seen that in the two areas in which trusts involved purely private interests , restitution of property and manumission , the remedies of cognitio were in any case adequate to secure specific performance . |
| 2 | Accusations of republican and Communist domination of NICRA and attempts to link the civil rights movement to subversion and violence were to some extent understandable responses by Unionists to the events in Derry . |
| 3 | This provided not only an overview of the stated intentions of Major Project schools but also some kind of check that the six schools chosen as the focus for our study were in these terms not atypical . |
| 4 | What developed was a massacre rather than any battle , as disciplined and prepared thousands bore down upon a scattered , unready and largely leaderless crowd , which could have had no idea that any enemy were on this side of the river . |
| 5 | But both Woodruffe and Hodson denied strongly that the Association was in any sense a secret society , that it sought to discipline members in breach of rules , to dictate terms to shipowners or to enforce a closed shop . |
| 6 | My thinking was in some way parallel to that of the generative semantics school , but at the same time I developed my own ideas independently of them . |
| 7 | Llanthony Warehouse was for many years a showroom and store for Western Trading Co . |
| 8 | Rowse was at that time in London , or I might ( I said ) have asked him to tea and taken some soundings . |
| 9 | Filmer 's bedroom was in that car . |
| 10 | They were that Filmer 's bedroom was in that car . |
| 11 | In Britain the legal speed limit was 12 mph but since they broke down frequently speed was of little consequence . |
| 12 | The judge decided that the defendant was within that definition and could remain in possession . |
| 13 | A spokesman for the magazines said : ‘ The result was in little doubt . ’ |
| 14 | Oswald 's best season at the Palace was probably 1933–34 , when he topped our list of appearances with 39 games , although perhaps his finest display for the club was in that season 's 2nd round FA Cup tie at Stockport , when the Palace came from behind to win 2–1 . |
| 15 | Lot of shop lifting was for that reason . |
| 16 | Days when my mind was like those days , grey and comfortless for no particular reason . |
| 17 | The reverse had a marked impact on Moltke , whose mental concentration was at that time directed to the western theatre . |
| 18 | Its air of peacefulness was in such contrast to Broadway , and to the harbour and waterfront on the day they had landed . |
| 19 | Only in Flanders , where the comital demesne was in any case a large and solid block , was a complete network of prévôtés created before the end of the century . |
| 20 | The Shah had always preferred Republicans to Democrats and he had felt that Carters human rights programme was in some senses directed against him . |
| 21 | While the others played raging bottleneck guitar and favoured rough , percussive voices , Hooker was onto another tip . |
| 22 | It became evident to both the Corporation and the Company , that the Selby Road frontier was of little use as a terminus for either . |
| 23 | Criticism which could be levelled at this study was in many ways similar to that of youth cultures . |
| 24 | The flag at Magdalen College was at half mast today as students learned of the death of Leigh Don Lau . |
| 25 | The flag at Wadham college was at half mast today as a mark of respect for the two men . |
| 26 | The freeboard , when the boat was under this load , was not to be less than 16in amidships and 22. ½ at bow ends . |
| 27 | Certainly the ambition was in both cases the same : in a lecture which he gave soon after finishing The Cocktail Party he declared that he only wished to write plays " of contemporary life " . |
| 28 | Thermal underwear was in another drawer , vests sleeved and buttoned , a pair of long johns . |
| 29 | But difficult as the schism was for many workers and indeed activists to understand or justify , its far-reaching ramifications had already begun to emerge . |
| 30 | That slag was at some times tapped during the period is shown by the debris at Shakenoak , which was accompanied by the day linings from four furnaces and forging hearths . |