Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christian religion was naturally of the greatest importance — the Master was in Holy Orders — but the Latin Vulgate had been replaced by the English of King James 's Bible . |
| 2 | Before the 1980s its lowest ebb was probably during the last years of Stalin 's life when his private office and the secret police seem to have had more influence than the party . |
| 3 | The visit of the Association was not unlike the coming of a circus : local intellectuals had an opportunity to mingle with the eminent who came in droves , cities competed in the lavishness of their entertainment , and in days before radio and television one could see and hear well known speakers addressing scientific audiences , or sometimes great crowds of working men . |
| 4 | If the Brigade was still around the village and things got a bit quieter I would keep that date , and treat them to British steak and kidney , etc . |
| 5 | Much of it was in small parcels ; some was not suitable for development at all because of physical difficulties ; and , of the remainder , a great deal was already in the hands of builders . |
| 6 | Jamila was soon in the felicitous position of neither liking nor disliking her husband . |
| 7 | Outside Colombo the force was theoretically under the control of government agents who had many other duties and usually spared little time for the police . |
| 8 | Tayside 's deputy chief constable William Spence , noting the report , said there had been various elements of improvement and said his force was still above the national average in detection . |
| 9 | Johnny 's signet ring was somewhere in the hall ; there was no doubting it . |
| 10 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
| 11 | Once the process is posted to defendant 's address , if it is not returned by the Post Office , it is deemed to have been delivered , ( see s 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 ) ; thus applications by defendants will generally seek to show , by affidavit , that the defendant was away from the a ddress , for example , abroad or on a prolonged holiday ; it has been held that he is not entitled to have the judgment set aside ex debito justitiae . |
| 12 | Definitions are difficult , but so far as the workstation market can be defined , Dataquest reckons that it gained only 4.2% in 1992 , following a 14.5% gain in 1991 , and suggests that the slowdown in revenue was down to the overall mix of workstations shipped shifting towards lower-priced systems , and to the poor economic climate in Japan , so that the market crept up to $9,000m . |
| 13 | The Corporal was still on the wall , all credit to him , legs astride as if he was riding a motorbike . |
| 14 | The Conservative Club was there before the , the Liberal Club . |
| 15 | Now the opposition to the Members ' Club was out in the open . |
| 16 | For centuries Japan had a dual system of rule : a reigning emperor based at Kyoto and a military government whose seat was normally outside the capital . |
| 17 | Faecal fat excretion was less in the patients ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 18 | His reply was rather off the point , I thought . |
| 19 | When I joined the battle against fluoridation in 1962 , my opposition was wholly on the grounds that it was a treatment of people 's bodies without their consent , or the consent of parents in the case of children — a form of ‘ compulsory mass medication ’ . |
| 20 | Even here , as the fact of policing came to be established , opposition was not to the police per se , but to specific operations or tactics . |
| 21 | Is not the hypocrisy and confusion in the Opposition ranks shown by the fact that , when that judgment was announced , the legal affairs spokesman for the Opposition was immediately in the media demanding my right hon. Friend 's resignation , while the shadow Home Secretary was demanding that he remain . |
| 22 | Llewelyn was close in his chamber with his chaplain-secretary and Ednyfed Fychan over the dictation of letters , and his seal was already on the credentials of the envoys who were to represent him in Shrewsbury ; but David , when he heard what the messenger had to report , on his own authority brought him in to the conference and shattered it . |
| 23 | As I walked between the walls my mind was already in the byre , just visible at the far end of the yard . |
| 24 | Emily 's mind was partly on the enjoyable walk she had taken with Heinrich , who had unexpectedly proved a most delightful companion during the week ; partly on the bright green foulard dress she had seen on sale at Bobby 's in Margate yesterday when they visited the famous menagerie at the Grand Hall by the Sea , and partly it was on the coming evening . |
| 25 | At her sculpture class , she was tentatively shaping a block of soapstone into something decorative , but her mind was away in the summerhouse . |
| 26 | His mind was n't on the game at all : it was on balance sheets and interest rates and VAT and cash flow and overdraft facilities . |
| 27 | Her mind was not on the film , however , and she left after an hour . |
| 28 | He says , ‘ My mind was much to the place as soon as it was described to me , because it was a full congregation … an ignorant , rude and revelling people for the greater part , who had need of preaching , and yet had among them a small company of converts , who were humble , godly and of good conversations , and not much hated by the rest , and therefore fitter to assist their teacher ; but above all , because they hardly ever had any lively , serious preaching among them . |
| 29 | Somehow , his mind was still on the wallet and the letter , discounting the money . |
| 30 | A small part of his mind was still on the unidentified weapon in the Connon case . |