Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] was [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Other than in Ipswich , where the WEA branch was among the small group of vigorous , active and well-organised centres in the District , there appeared to be little prospect for development without LEA-funded support in the pre-war years and , as in West Suffolk , the development of a substantial WEA presence did not occur until after the 1939–45 war .
2 Then Ted 's Blacksmiths shop was on the r corner .
3 Amongst the villagers , the division on Friday night was between the men , who had been in the pub and could vouch for each other , and the wives , who had been watching telly at home and could n't , but who seemed knowledgeable , when pressed , about a number of ITV programmes .
4 Suddenly the Elsie McAndrew affair was in the national news headlines .
5 Clem Bunker was in a rare-rage .
6 As the site of Montagu House was within the area of the block plan design , the article asserted that neither the Duke nor Burn would be disinterested assessors .
7 Slade Mill was in the hands of Edward William Cook from the 1890s , up to the First World War .
8 Whereas Belial Base had been built on the outer surface of a solid moon , Moloch Base was inside a hollow one ; a miracle of planetary engineering which , after five years , still had Bannen and his team groping in the dark for answers to questions they did n't even know how to formulate .
9 Back in 1989 the England side was at an extremely low ebb , having just been humiliated 0–4 by Australia .
10 The Swan Inn was on the far side of the village from Fern Cottage , situated close to the bridge over the river Windrush .
11 Lanfranc 's collection of Canon Law was in the library at Canterbury , but there is no evidence that Anselm ever used it while he was archbishop .
12 Former England keeper was in the dark , we pieced together ( 5 , 6 )
13 The first detectable expression of GGF mRNA was in the nervous system , beginning at embryonic day ( E ) 10.5 to 11 .
14 A key UDF demand was for the general election , currently scheduled for no later than June , to be postponed until November , in order to give opposition parties more time to organize .
15 Dissent flared into civil war after a Sunday Telegraph Gallup poll revealed opposition to the Maastricht Treaty was at an all-time high among Tory backbench MPs .
16 The long-sought ‘ killer application ’ — aka the next Lotus — may have been born last week : Silicon Valley start-up Arbor Software was at the NT Pavilion at Comdex in Chicago showing off its multi-dimensional spreadsheet .
17 Tilly Whim was at the southern end .
18 The Harvard dealer was on the sharp end of clients ' complaints .
19 Justin Pink was at the M4 junction before he remembered that he had forgotten to tell Debbie that it was a black-tie job at the Simpsons ' .
20 His blue Vauxhall Astra car was on the drive where Mr Miles had parked it after driving home for lunch yesterday .
21 Valeriy Kulishov , advisor to the Russian Minister for Culture on restitution matters and member of the Restitution Commission , told The Art Newspaper : ‘ The talk at the Dresden meeting was to a large extent about a legal basis , and the protocol of the meeting itself is a kind of ‘ framework ’ agreement .
22 The Bristol team was in the process of discovering that in addition to the light electron and heavy proton and neutron there are particles of intermediate masses which they named ‘ mesotrons ’ .
23 Her Sloane Street shop was between an antique shop and a florist 's .
24 When discussion of a reconvened Geneva conference was in the air in December 1973 , the government stated that ‘ Israel will not return to the lines of June 4 , 1967 , which were a temptation to aggression . ’
25 Lancaster Polytechnic was by the end of the 1960s one of the premier public sector institutions , with one in six of all CNAA degrees ( more than any other college or polytechnic ) .
26 Manoeuvring by the Unitarian from Liverpool , Francis Bishop , got a statement from Chamerovzow that no resolution repudiating the American Anti-Slavery Society was on the books of the BFASS .
27 To make it worse , the Connor bitch was on a fancied runner in the big race .
28 The 87 Sr/ 86 Sr of NBS SRM987 was and the 143 Nd/ 144 Nd of the La Jolla Nd standard was at the time of these analyses .
29 The front garden of Cambridge School was like a piece of meadow , long grass , willow herb , daisies and golden rod .
30 I remember that the first time I came to Semer Water was as a boy on my bike .
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