Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | The only styling change was to the headlamps with the plexiglass shells removed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Our concern as Borough Council was with the er inner relief road options that that had links into the urban area . |
| 17 | The duty officer at the Cabinet Office Briefing Room was at the centre of a web of information technology . |
| 18 | Where the gallery projects from the first floor of the house , the wool room was in the house on the first floor . |
| 19 | A fine barn lies beyond and the wool room was in the house on the first floor away from the gallery . |
| 20 | As the burial mound was of the period known as the Bronze Age , the horn and the mound could belong to the same period . |
| 21 | Additionally , the Hammer community was in the process of housing redevelopment , and many in-group members had moved out of the immediate area . |
| 22 | The wind sock was on the northern edge . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | The peak of Kendal 's wool trade was in the 17th and early 18th Centuries and Hawkshead 's prosperity waned with that of Kendal . |
| 25 | The congregation was a colourful mixture of students , teaching staff , and parishioners and at least one College Principal was in the congregation . |
| 26 | The frontier checkpoint was in the little village of Nadlac . |
| 27 | The smell of Dada 's cut grass was in the air . |
| 28 | The football ground was at the back of a churchyard in the suburbs . |
| 29 | The entire labour movement was under the control of " social fascism " . |
| 30 | A county council spokesman said speed checks would be carried out but a final decision on imposing a speed limit was with the Department of Transport . |