Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] was [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Slade Mill was in the hands of Edward William Cook from the 1890s , up to the First World War . |
| 7 | The Swan Inn was on the far side of the village from Fern Cottage , situated close to the bridge over the river Windrush . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Former England keeper was in the dark , we pieced together ( 5 , 6 ) |
| 10 | The first detectable expression of GGF mRNA was in the nervous system , beginning at embryonic day ( E ) 10.5 to 11 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Tilly Whim was at the southern end . |
| 14 | The Harvard dealer was on the sharp end of clients ' complaints . |
| 15 | 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 ' . |
| 16 | His blue Vauxhall Astra car was on the drive where Mr Miles had parked it after driving home for lunch yesterday . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | What a busy place Shrewsbury Station was in the days of steam ! |
| 23 | A fourth Ulster boxer was in the reckoning . |
| 24 | I am comfortable in my maze which is laid out like the one at Hampton Court was by the Great Killer 's chief minister , Cardinal Thomas Wolsey . |
| 25 | A LEADING North Sea oil company yesterday declared its licence to explore the depths of Liverpool Bay was among the most sought-after off the UK coast . |
| 26 | In China jade was from the first shaped for symbolic rather than industrial ends . |
| 27 | ‘ I was about 12 and going to the school up the road — Clint Boon was in the year above me — and one morning there was this big commotion in the classroom . |
| 28 | The leadership also has a new control , which makes it less likely to be unhorsed by its own interest-groups than the Callaghan Government was in the late 1970s . |
| 29 | When the Cleveland affair was in the news in 1987/88 I wrote about becoming a father , which was the most wonderful experience — I felt completely liberated by it ; and then I was being told that all men were potential child abusers because they were so emotionally retarded . |
| 30 | In 1917 Kursk guberniia was amongst the worst twelve Russian provinces affected by disorganized rural unrest . |