Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boots continued to multiply , though the majority were in the expanding field of leisure walking . |
| 2 | The majority were in the private sector . |
| 3 | Even if one of the ovoids was in the Simonova 's docking bay — a recovery sequence had been initiated shortly before Rostov had retired to his quarters — those which were adjacent in orbit would open fire as soon as the pod was more than ten kilometres from the survey vessel 's shield zone . |
| 4 | They were extravagantly to his advantage , save when she lowered her voice to sigh , tapping her left side familiarly : " And all overclouded by this , you know — all at the mercy of a weakness — ( 9 ) Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart ( 10 ) . |
| 5 | This impression is backed up by the following sentence , which stands out as being the shortest and most straightforward sentence in the extract : Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart ( 10 ) . |
| 6 | These express the content of Pemberton 's inner consciousness : " Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart " ( 10 ) : " he would have liked to hear the figure of his salary " ( 3 ) . |
| 7 | In fact , half the cases appeared in one newspaper — the Middlesex Chronicle , a local weekly — while the remainder were in the nationals . |
| 8 | The unity was in the past and resided in the present and our devotion to Jesus . |
| 9 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 10 | For studies of ICJ transit , with this method , a value of 1 indicated that all the isotope was in the first 4 cm of ileum ; a value of 6 indicated that all isotope was in the caecum or colon . |
| 11 | While the labourers were on the boat , he insisted that Melinda go into purdah . |
| 12 | NO REVIEW , since the NME was in the midst of a lengthy NUJ strike ! |
| 13 | Thus , claims Matthew Swainston , " the seamen were among the first , if not the first , of any class of working men to think in national terms " . |
| 14 | And this afternoon literally everything connected with the base was on the move . |
| 15 | Besides , in some ways the change was for the better . |
| 16 | With phosphatidylethanolamine most of the cholesterol ( 85% ) was in the vesicular fraction , while with phosphatidylserine most of the cholesterol was in the non-vesicular fractions ( 80% ) . |
| 17 | With a saturated fatty acid ( palmitic acid ) in the sn-1 position and the polyunsaturated arachidonic acid in sn-2 position most of the cholesterol was in the non-vesicular phase . |
| 18 | With a saturated fatty acid in the sn-1 position ( palmitic acid ) and arachidonic acid in sn-2 position most of the cholesterol was in the non-vesicular phase . |
| 19 | It is noteworthy that with phosphatidylserine most of the cholesterol was in the more stable ( non-vesicular carrier ) . |
| 20 | The solicitors were in the shadow of St Paul 's . |
| 21 | However , the flames were near the petrol tank and the fishing vessel was in danger of being blown up so the skipper had to give the order to abandon ship . |
| 22 | The initial concerns of the Board were with the transfer of responsibilities from the Law Society and their subsequent management . |
| 23 | For the most part , from the reign of Valentinian I through to the early fifth century , the Burgundians were among the most loyal federates of the Empire , and they were proud of their connections with the Romans . |
| 24 | If he was a zealot , it was in his strict adherence to his Faith ; if he was bigoted , it was in his belief that the kirk was of the people and answerable to no master other than God . |
| 25 | The cinema was at the back of the present hotel . |
| 26 | The cinema was round the corner and |
| 27 | Now , the whole of the West and the Mid-West was like the Navaho Reservation . |
| 28 | Two runs scored , and the Giants were in the World Series . |
| 29 | There was one based on Proust and one based on Zola , and the winner was about the ghosts of a haunted house being disturbed by an estate agent and a gang of would-be mortgage slaves . |
| 30 | The tide was on the turn now . |