Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the AA van arrived they informed him they could not take his car home unless he or his girlfriend were in the recovery van . |
| 2 | Do you know the American President and his adviser were in the malai capital at the time ? ’ |
| 3 | Millett J had to deal with the argument that it would be a breach of the covenant if the defendant were during the remainder of the period of restraint , to solicit any business of any kind from any company which happened to have been a customer of the plaintiff company during the relevant period . |
| 4 | The Inland Revenue were of the view " that if income had been paid away it could not be " relevant income " " because it would not be available for providing a benefit " . |
| 5 | The company initially expressed doubts as to their liability to duty but were informed that the revenue were of the opinion that the duties were payable and that they would incur penalties if they did not pay . |
| 6 | equipment , particularly in regard to such matters as route board brackets and the destination boxes on the ends of the car were of the L.C.C . |
| 7 | During the noisy thirty-fifth anniversary celebrations , when Deng Xiaoping and his reform programme were at the peak of their popularity , few voices of dissent could be heard . |
| 8 | Cups of half-finished tea were on the floor beside their chairs . |
| 9 | Anxiety , weakness , oppression and constriction in the chest ; sensation as if a great weight were on the chest . |
| 10 | Originally , projections for West German investment were in the range of DM120 billion ; actual investment has been only DM13 million . |
| 11 | Approximately half the force were from the Commonwealth — Aussies , Canadians , New Zealanders , South Africans , Rhodesians and even from as far afield as Hong Kong , Fiji and the West Indies , this all made for healthy competition . |
| 12 | Body and mind were among the contraries to be reconciled , and the true union of opposites was always preceded by bitter conflict . |
| 13 | Communications , security and the maintenance of the entire complex were in the hands of Russian officers under contract to the Iraqi government . |
| 14 | FIVE prisoners being tried in connection with the Strangeways riot were on the run last night after escaping from a court . |
| 15 | Is there any joint and seems light , if the light were on the light catches them and you can see all the |
| 16 | Is it because we will point out that the consultants , general practitioners , radiographers , physiotherapists , occupational therapists , the Ayrshire local health council , all four district councils and the four Members of Parliament who bothered to make a submission were against the proposal to opt out — that all those 200 submissions were against it ? |
| 17 | During the mid-sixties the strongest pressures on the profession 's practice were in the area of conveyancing . |
| 18 | None of the speakers suggested by the DUC were on the programme ; all the speakers , while ‘ allegedly neutral ’ , were considered pro-mining by the DUC . |
| 19 | Perhaps the only two successful threats of action were by the water-workers in 1983 and the NUM over the Coal Board 's threat to close uneconomic pits in January 1981 . |
| 20 | National government and household administration were from the middle of the sixteenth century separate entities . |
| 21 | Jack Pertwee was getting married in the morning and the Kingsmarkham and District Darts Club were in the Dragon to give him what George Carter called a send-off . |
| 22 | Bicester Rugby Club were in the semi-finals of the Provincial Insurance Cup following an excellent hard four weeks , to go to Gloucester opponents , Hucklecote Old Boys at this afternoon . |
| 23 | If a rating or precepting authority over-rated or over-precepted , the remedy was in the hands of the electorate … |
| 24 | What it means to BPExploration was at the centre of last year 's R&D strategy review . |
| 25 | If , for example , a horseman was in the field and the ploughing was going on extremely well , his stetches coming out neatly , with dead-straight furrows and a level ‘ top ’ , his mate sometimes called out in recognition of his prowess : |
| 26 | They constitute an acknowledgment by the delegates , committee and officers that the Association was for the time being inadequately organised and funded for undertaking major tasks on the national scene . |
| 27 | Phillip Thorpe , the AFBD 's chief executive , felt obliged to circulate to his staff a denial of reports that a merger with The Securities Association was in the offing . |
| 28 | One is how far advanced the Labour Party 's thinking was on the nature of planning it might undertake if it took power at the end of the second world war . |
| 29 | They are well known in the Weald of Kent and Sussex and around Poole harbour ; and one land-drainage contractor was of the opinion in 1986 that in his own county , Northamptonshire , there was scarcely a parish without areas which were effectively undrainable due to ochre . |
| 30 | Moreover , useful as the clergy 's and particularly Winchelsey 's aid was to the magnates in the summer of 1297 , the laity had been encouraged to think that the clergy , especially because they did not fight , should bear a significant share of the financial costs of defence . |