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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 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 ) .
2 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 ) .
3 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 ) .
4 The unity was in the past and resided in the present and our devotion to Jesus .
5 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 .
6 And this afternoon literally everything connected with the base was on the move .
7 Besides , in some ways the change was for the better .
8 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% ) .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 It is noteworthy that with phosphatidylserine most of the cholesterol was in the more stable ( non-vesicular carrier ) .
12 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 .
13 The cinema was at the back of the present hotel .
14 The cinema was round the corner and
15 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 .
16 The tide was on the turn now .
17 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 .
18 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 :
19 His bid for the throne was in the first instance an aspect of Merovingian family politics .
20 Mrs Metcalfe said : ‘ The money was for the electricity bill .
21 I think that I must assume the existence of some person in the defendants ' employment who accepted and appropriated the money with a full knowledge of all the facts , particularly the discussion which had preceded the institution of the action , and the pending of the action itself , who knew and realised that the right of the defendants to receive the money was at the moment sub judice , and indeed on the point of coming before this court for decision .
22 You see the primary was in the one side and the high school the secondary was in the other .
23 The case was about the liberty of the press to comment freely at any price .
24 ‘ But in the Government 's view the Department 's handling of the case was within the acceptable range of standards reasonably to be expected of a regulator . ’
25 The Bill gives asylum seekers in that position the right — it did not exist when the case was before the court — to appeal to an independent adjudicator .
26 Most of the rise was in the form of manufacturing and other business investment ( figure 8.7 ) .
27 The grave was in the new cemetery plot , with a figure of Jesus crowned in gold on the headstone .
28 If ultrasonic methods were used , for example , anomalous effects would be observed when the wavelength was of the order of the phase dimensions .
29 It is not contended that the duty arose out of contract : the contract was between the defendants and Mrs. Walker , and so far as contract is concerned it was to Mrs. Walker the defendants were liable for breach of it .
30 It does not allege that the mother made any contract in reference to the child — the contract was with the mother in respect of herself alone .
  Next page