Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It even had a 1940 's bakelite telephone which seemed to work , but the typewriter was state of the art and so , probably , was the young lady behind it . |
| 2 | Recruitment was mainly in Israel , but the Brigade was part of the British Army and was stationed in Italy , Holland and Western Germany . |
| 3 | The introduction of the card was part of the evolutionary process which has begun in 1850 when Wells and Fargo merged to form a company which transported valuables across America by Express delivery — thus American Express . |
| 4 | In 1991 the average that was spent on a gold wedding ring was £119 by the bride and £104 by the groom . |
| 5 | Previously , the Constitution dictated that the President was head of the army . |
| 6 | The President was C.-in-C. of the armed forces ; he was empowered to appoint the government and in exceptional circumstances to dissolve the People 's Assembly or to declare war or a state of emergency . |
| 7 | The inevitable result was over-capacity in the market place followed by a vicious price war . |
| 8 | On the morning of the election , the nearest of all the major opinion polls to a correct result was Gallup in The Daily Telegraph , which put the Tories half a point ahead of Labour ( 38½ per cent to 38 per cent , a change-round of one percentage point over the course of the preceding week ) . |
| 9 | MILLWALL shares were floated at 20p in 1989 when the club was second in the First Division . |
| 10 | Among the five substantial trials of treatment of hypertension in elderly people the reduction in stroke was 47% in the Swedish trial , 42% in the hypertension in elderly patients study , 37% in the systolic hypertension in the elderly programme , 36% in the European working party trial , and 25% in the Medical Research Council 's trial . |
| 11 | These concerns were reflected in memos like this , Gordon head of the state lottery finance department was part of the team charged with evaluating G Tec 's bid , he warned on November the third last year . |
| 12 | In the heifer classes the top bid was 2,000gns for the champion from Messrs McConchie which was purchased by JJ Patterson of Kirktonhill and Glengelt Farms , Oxton , Lauder , while the reserve champion Jenny l86th from J&W Wilson of Kirkmabreck , Creetown was bought at 900gns by R&K Drysdale , Old Cambus Quarry , Cockburnspath , Berwick . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the whole review programme was testimony to the school 's commitment to a continuous self-evaluation policy as integral to its decision-making process . |
| 14 | The starting point of my research was Rennes-le-Chateau in the department of the Aude , in south-western France . |
| 15 | An important aspect of the Mandate was supervision by the League to ensure observance of the arrangement . |
| 16 | Eating was part of the serious business of training your body and keeping it fit . |
| 17 | I told myself that my intention was maintenance of the status quo , but this was at best a half-truth . |
| 18 | The original basis of liability under the rule was responsibility for the creation of an exceptional risk which happened to ripen into injury . |
| 19 | European turnover was $100m for the year , which accounted for nearly a third of Sequent 's total sales . |
| 20 | We explained that we had not realized their boat was part of the Coast Guard and that we had not heard them aright in their orders to stop . |
| 21 | With Swoon 's poised black-and-white images , which blend low-budget experiment , MTV edits and archive footage , they take that myth apart with remarkable assurance , pointing out the effects of sexual intolerance and the way Leopold and Loeb were scapegoated , but also showing how the crime was part of the sexual power play of their relationship . |
| 22 | The Professor was advisor to the Tory dominated Transport Committee , and he 's convinced the sell off will be a turn off . |
| 23 | This effect was dur to the shorter MCTT after miglitol ( 107 ( 14 ) minutes ) as well as after acarbose ( 106 ( 13 ) ) in comparison with placebo ( 139 ( 18 ) minutes ) ( paired t =2.16 , p=0.023 and paired t =1.98 , p=0.032 respectively ) . |
| 24 | The statement by the Bègles coach Yves Appriou , prior to the game , that violence was part of the process of rebuilding a side , sent a shiver down the spine of the rugby community . |
| 25 | And , because all this capability was part of the Macintosh operating system it was available to any software developer so almost every package that appears for the system works the same way . |
| 26 | For over a century , the Gloucestershire Old Spot pig was queen of the sty across the West Country . |
| 27 | They also stressed the difference between adoption and fostering , not seen as simply one of length of placement : often the aim of fostering was restoration of the child to the natural family , or at least the maintenance of contact with it . |
| 28 | To start at the very beginning , as Pamela Hine did , the game or sport of halma was part of the ancient Greek pentathlon . |
| 29 | Blood was part of the job , like spilled paint to a house-painter . |
| 30 | The German theologian Rudolf Bultmann ( 1884–1976 ) believed that we need to demythologise the New Testament because demonism was part of the cultural world-view of first-century Palestine that we must reject in order to discover authentic faith ( Bultmann 1953:5 ) . |