Example sentences of "the [noun sg] was [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hiss was clear on MW and LW while the calculator was within a few feet of the set , but not on FM . |
| 2 | The boiler was like an upright wooden barrel banded with copper . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The unity was in the past and resided in the present and our devotion to Jesus . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ The Prince was on a dahabeeyah last night coming back from Karnak and someone fell overboard . ’ |
| 9 | And this afternoon literally everything connected with the base was on the move . |
| 10 | Besides , in some ways the change was for the better . |
| 11 | 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% ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is noteworthy that with phosphatidylserine most of the cholesterol was in the more stable ( non-vesicular carrier ) . |
| 15 | The bulb was in a little ventilation window above the door . |
| 16 | Commentators suggested that the struggle was between a " hardline " faction led by Chea Sim , President of the National Assembly and second ranking member of the ruling Kampuchean People 's Revolutionary Party politburo , and a " liberal " faction loosely associated with Hun Sen . |
| 17 | The only difference between ancient Greek tragedy and modern revolutionary tragedy is that in the former the struggle was against a distant , unknowable , divine power , whereas in the latter the struggle is against an all-too-present social order manufacturing poverty , disease , unemployment and war . |
| 18 | The writer was on a ship when he wrote the letters , ’ I replied . |
| 19 | I think the writer was in a hurry . |
| 20 | The Board was in no hurry to cut pollution despite the UK 's U-turn . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The cinema was at the back of the present hotel . |
| 23 | The cinema was round the corner and |
| 24 | The access was never meant to be it was meant to be further in and and we all for well know , the permission was for a drive to come down through the wood , which would have been very attractive and a garage on the end of the property . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The tide was on the turn now . |
| 27 | On one occasion Crawford was left hanging above the stage for ten minutes when there was a bomb scare and everyone left the theatre quickly , forgetting that the top-of-the-bill was at the top of the stage . |
| 28 | The greatest difficulty for the USRC was within the party , for any commitment to a positive social policy would be resisted by those whose vested interests were threatened , as Robert Sanders noted over labourers " wages : |
| 29 | His bid for the throne was in the first instance an aspect of Merovingian family politics . |
| 30 | Mrs Metcalfe said : ‘ The money was for the electricity bill . |