Example sentences of "was [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A statement issued prior to the march claimed that there was support from the Nationalist Party , the RLP , the NILP , the NDP , the CSJ , the Irish National Foresters , the GAA , the AOH , the Derry Housing Action Committee ( DHAC ) and the Wolfe Tone Societies . |
| 2 | Crawford 's first London stage play was Change for the Angel , at the small Arts Theatre Club , in Great Newport Street . |
| 3 | We then had a bowl of fruit salad , and there was change from the price of a glass of beer . |
| 4 | But there was change in the air : one woman began to study and others took their cue from her . |
| 5 | One factor in this development , within particular societies , was change in the internal structure of the dominant classes . |
| 6 | This effect was dur to the shorter MCTT after miglitol ( 107 ( 14 ) minutes ) as well as after acarbose ( 106 ( 13 ) ) in comparison with placebo ( 139 ( 18 ) minutes ) ( paired t =2.16 , p=0.023 and paired t =1.98 , p=0.032 respectively ) . |
| 7 | Maybe I said things I should not have done — it was over-reaction to the fact we lost two points we probably deserved , and to the manner they were lost . ’ |
| 8 | All she could do was stumble from the room and get out of their sight as quickly as possible . |
| 9 | A graduate of Westminster Hotel School , ( where he was winner of the HCIMA 's premier student prize , the Sir Francis Towle Award ) he was among the first intake in Forte 's executive management trainee programme . |
| 10 | Jim Gladwell ( Velo RT ) did not compete last year but was winner of the inaugural league in 1991 and , if fit , could win on Sunday . |
| 11 | Back at the truck all was despondency in the gathering gloom . |
| 12 | Woodville had seized £10,250 in English gold coin from the vessel on the grounds that it was forfeit to the crown , and by the indenture bound himself to give the patron its value in English merchandise if that proved not to be the case . |
| 13 | Woodville had seized £1O,250 in English gold coin from the vessel on the grounds that it was forfeit to the crown , and by the indenture bound himself to give the patron its value in English merchandise if that proved not to be the case . |
| 14 | Nevertheless the Spanish translation of Rousseau 's Social Contract could appeal to a ‘ son of Padilla ’ ; it was enthusiasm for the parliamentary institutions of medieval Spain which allowed the Cortes of Cadiz to present a constitution , founded on the constitutions of Revolutionary France , as the culmination of the ‘ true ’ constitutional development of Spain . |
| 15 | There was hope of an Army rebellion to unseat Hitler , but firmer news that he had ringed himself with his most loyal SS units , doubling his personal security . |
| 16 | The coverage of the new business park was encouraging , however , as it showed that Scotswood had not been forgotten , and there was hope for a better future . |
| 17 | In the confusion of scolding that followed , Charles reflected that maybe there was hope for the family after all . |
| 18 | A second cause for the leakage was misadventure with the tract from the skin to the gall bladder . |
| 19 | At the same time he produced a wide range of political , cultural and literary articles for publication in journals such as Europe , Monde , Commune , La Litterature internationale , Vendredi , Clarte and Cahiers du bolchevisme , he was co-scriptwriter of a film Visages de In France ( 1937 ) , and he contributed regularly in his capacity as foreign-affairs correspondent for L'Humanite between 1935 and 1937 , and Ce Soir between 1937 and 1939 . |
| 20 | The anger he saw in her eyes was camouflage for the fear she felt . |
| 21 | It is usually conveniently overlooked that there was settlement in the area beforehand and that for most of man 's life on earth neither iron nor coal has been particularly important . |
| 22 | His protest that this was the worst kind of Victorian colonialism was short-hand for the conviction that the action had played into the hands of all the enemies of the West . |
| 23 | In his words , ‘ It was kind of a boon-doggle ’ . |
| 24 | Maybe it was kind of a reaction from the mundane business of hardware , but he seemed to prefer actors , musicians , artists , anybody who earned a living in the movies or theatre worlds . |
| 25 | I guess it was kind of a bribe to the populace from the malais ; most important , it was a sign of normalisation , of assimilation . |
| 26 | So it would n't be too big a step just to go to Lyness really it was kind of a natural thing ? |
| 27 | That was kind of a massive pulley in concrete . |
| 28 | " Well , " the McLaren girl said , " I guess the whole thing was kind of a bother , but I had n't thought of it that way . |
| 29 | ‘ It was kind of a sudden decision . |
| 30 | ‘ Yeah , it was kind of an accident , actually . |