Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] was [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because from each pole there hung a robe , and each robe was of a different hue , and every robe was of a different consistency . |
| 2 | OF ALL cell ingredients , one might guess that calcium was among the least important . |
| 3 | But that difficulty was in the end surmounted and , on the whole , the writing was easy and pleasurable . |
| 4 | The agreement in that case was between the owner of a piano ( a dealer ) and his customer . |
| 5 | ( c ) I do not think the Engdiv case , 1990 S.L.T. 617 assists Mr. Beazley , since both the pursuers seeking contribution and the defenders resisting it were parties to the building contract at issue in the case , so that it was difficult to resist the submission that the claim for contribution in that case was in a matter relating to a contract . |
| 6 | However , he submitted that even if the trial judge had misdirected the jury when he told them that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what it was proved that he himself had done , that misdirection was to the advantage of the first appellant . |
| 7 | The literary truth is that Modernism was in the end a starved and blighted world , joylessly based on a denial that language can depict the real . |
| 8 | Look twat … first off that mail was for a PRIVATE LEEDS MAIL LIST |
| 9 | Each interview was with a single-sex group of girls or boys , and I began by asking them to choose their favourite character or person on TV and tell me a bit about them . |
| 10 | It seemed ( see , for instance , our Interim Report , 1988 ) that , right up to the moment when the repatriation of the Cossacks began , there remained a complete and unresolved contradiction between this insistence by 5 Corps and the reiterated insistence by AFHQ that force was in no circumstances to be used . |
| 11 | It was conceded by the court that this finding was on a strict view irrelevant , since there was a break between the clearing of the premises and the assault with which the appellant had been charged , which was a separate incident . |
| 12 | Some of this support was on a substantial scale : a large cheque given to enable the parents to ‘ buy things for the baby ’ ; a capital sum to enable a young architect to buy into a new firm ; paying the wages of a home help to assist a family with several young children ( pp. 92–4 ) . |
| 13 | At first this support was for a cautious continuation of the patching of the existing system . |
| 14 | This payment was towards a purchase price of $800,000 or $850,000 , ( the entries in the bank and gallery records are contradictory ) . |
| 15 | And yet this field was like every other since the archers had become the terrible force they were ; their part was done first , but nonetheless at the end it was seen to be the determining part . |
| 16 | He accepted however that once this case was over the real hunt for more suitable accommodation would begin and by that time , at least , there could be the introduction of such a carer . |
| 17 | ‘ A pre-trial inquiry , such as the appellant contends the judge in this case was under a duty to embark upon , would itself be open to abuse by unscrupulous and dishonest accused persons . |
| 18 | Excitation in this case was with a laser line in the ultraviolet , well within the absorption band responsible for the yellow color . |
| 19 | This struggle was of an economic nature concerned with the competition for clients . |
| 20 | This expertise was behind the opening of the North Terminal at Gatwick , the new Terminal 4 at Heathrow and the rebuilding of Terminal 3 to give far greater comfort than before . |
| 21 | Although this text was in no way officially commissioned , it was to be the fount of the canon law . |
| 22 | This hypothesis was for a long time a subject of much contention in anthropology and is not even now entirely laid to rest , but the meagre historical record we possess can not possibly support such an assertion . |
| 23 | Protection is granted , in the context of a trade dispute , to interference with contract ( and not merely a contract of employment ) , to intimidation or conspiracy to injure and to interference with trade by unlawful means but by the Employment Act 1980 this protection was to a large extent withdrawn in case of ‘ secondary action . ’ |
| 24 | Most of this industry was on the coalfield at Coatbridge and in the Clyde valley from Motherwell to Glasgow . |
| 25 | Byrne 's letter was very nearly counterproductive , as it convinced Smith 's trade union backers that the sooner this contest was over the better . |
| 26 | ( All this action was at the furthest end from where Leeds fans were stood , so I could n't see much . |
| 27 | She looked for the yacht but another boat was on the mooring it had used . |
| 28 | This vote was of the utmost significance . |
| 29 | This club was on a small island off the coast ; it was reached by a causeway . |
| 30 | An RAF Warrant Officer in the Medical Administration branch , this Veteran was in the war from the start , helping to set up a field hospital . |