Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The salon was in the Ismailia quarter where all the best hotels were . |
| 2 | In the higher price range , the most notable result was for the El Greco ‘ Disrobing of Christ ’ ( lot 309 ) , a preparatory study for the work of that subject in Toledo Cathedral , which made a new record for the artist at £1.7 million ( $3.1 ; est. £1.5–2.5 million ) . |
| 3 | Inter-collegiate golf had convinced her that , eventually , her future was on the L.P.G.A. Tour . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At 8.30 , the cyclist was arriving at the finish , the motorbike had arrived 5 mins before ( but note , no time had been taken in finding a parking place , which would normally be the case ) ; the car was at the Morrison St — Lothian Road junction , and the bus had taken ten minutes to reach George IV Bridge , less than a mile . |
| 6 | Belpan was outside the EC 's sphere of influence so the Colonel was doing someone a favour . |
| 7 | Most of the violence was between the ANC and Zulu rivals of the Inkatha Freedom party . |
| 8 | He said " When the employee was in the Kingsbridge office he was in effect the Kingsbridge office . |
| 9 | In the south , that is Denmark and southern Sweden , the influence was from the Baltic : Holland , northern Germany and Poland . |
| 10 | Yardarm Street was a turning off Commercial Road and the pub was near the Commercial Road corner . |
| 11 | Dancing was to the Johnny Howard Orchestra and to Tony Charles and his Trinidad Steel Band . |
| 12 | She was glad Ferdinando was in the Brownings ' villa and she was with Mr Landor and Pilade in another . |
| 13 | The top cutting was from the Sunday Times ; underneath , she spotted items from both the Guardian and the Sun . |
| 14 | The aircraft-carrier Centaur was in the Indian Ocean on passage to the Far East . |
| 15 | So well , I always remember it cos my missus was in the White Hart , she was telling me about it . |
| 16 | Despite Hekmatyar 's public avowal that his war was with the Uzbek militia and not with other mujaheddin groups , analysts were agreed that he had stepped up the military pressure against the government to prevent Rabbani from consolidating his position and marginalizing the Hezb-i-Islami . |
| 17 | The lidless 1664 parish coffin at Howden Minster , Yorkshire , is of 3/4-inch oak , better constructed than the Easingwold model , though with identical iron rings and , as there are no nail or screw holes on the upper width of the side panels , it is to be assumed that the lid was of the Easingwold type . |
| 18 | In any case , the result of the Barcelona match was in the Sunday papers . |
| 19 | Half-hour point was by the David Lewis , and then three-quarter-hour point down Park Street . |
| 20 | His latest coup was in the Leeds regional final of the 22nd Times Crossword Championship . |
| 21 | Further institutional integration would depend on political circumstances , and the aim was for the Krajina Assembly 's mandate to be endorsed by the Serbian Assembly . |
| 22 | The resolution was dismissed by aides of Israel 's Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir , who asserted that it was " a pity " that the UN found it necessary repeatedly to condemn Israel when the real Middle East crisis was in the Gulf . |
| 23 | THE last thing Norman Lamont and John Major wanted on a day when the unadjusted unemployment total topped 3 million again in spite of all the Government 's ( indirect ) efforts to set the scene for recovery was for the IMF to meddle in UK economic policy issues . |
| 24 | The accountant was by the GM 's side . |
| 25 | First trade showing was at the Expofil exhibition in Paris . |
| 26 | But the woman 's husband was in the RAF once . |
| 27 | The library reference room was on the Fludyer Street side of the building and although it housed some to the 5,000 volumes in the manuscript library , some had to be distributed throughout the passages of the building . |
| 28 | The world famous naturalist was at the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust 's headquarters to launch an education programme — enabling thousands of local schoolchildren to use the centre to learn more about nature . |
| 29 | In a memo ( signature illegible ) to the assistant chief of naval staff dated two months after the sinking of the Bismarck , the writer said that it had ‘ unofficially ’ come to his notice that an Ensign Smith of the U S Navy was in the Catalina aircraft that had resighted the Bismarck , then en route to Brest , two days after British naval forces had lost contact with her ; and that an Ensign Rinehart was in another searching Catalina . |
| 30 | An example of such pressure involving an attempt to change an inequitable system that appears to bear no relation to wartime was on the Isle of Ely . |