Example sentences of "was a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time he had the clearest image in his mind of the three of them : Fred , Daisy , and himself , and it was a spectacle of nothing but pleasure . |
| 2 | The event , held at the leisure centre in Vista Road , Clacton , was a fundraiser for the £7,000 Shopmobility appeal being spearheaded by Tendring District Council . |
| 3 | He was a countryman at heart , and although these past weeks had been tremendous fun , it was lovely to see the grass and trees and a blue sky unclouded by smoke . |
| 4 | Bateson resisted the claim that the gene was a material entity , but soon the more materialistic geneticists were arguing for a modified version of Weismann 's germ plasm theory in which the gene was a segment of the chromosome responsible for transmitting a particular character from one generation to the next . |
| 5 | She did much for the Red Cross , Girl Guides and the Royal Society for the Blind , and was a magistrate for many years . |
| 6 | María Luisa Beltranena was a magistrate on the supreme electoral board and a university vice-rector . |
| 7 | Indeed New England was a battleground in the eighteenth century between Puritanism and Enlightenment philosophy . |
| 8 | In 1948 the Netherlands , Belgium and Luxembourg formed Benelux which was a CU in industrial goods . |
| 9 | if there was a 'p' on the worms , it poison , you , you , you little |
| 10 | There was a rat-at-tat of machinegun fire and several windows shattered . |
| 11 | Donna was one of life 's cheerleaders ; her teeth were a triumph of the orthodontic trade , her hair was a confection of gel , spray and heat , and her body was a tribute to wholesome American food and exercise . |
| 12 | John Parker of Belton was a servant of Lord Hastings though retained to Lord Mountjoy . |
| 13 | The issue is a narrow one , namely whether on the true construction of section 9(4) of the Act of 1975 and in the light of the facts that ( a ) Dr. Hayes was a servant of the Crown at the time when he made his investigation into the Lockerbie disaster , ( b ) he has since retired from the service of the Crown , and ( c ) that the evidence sought relates to what he discovered when acting as such a servant , the court has any power to make the order sought . |
| 14 | WHEN I WAS a child , I was always at Wuthering Heights , because my mother was a servant with the Earnshaw family . |
| 15 | As this was a dosage of 0.166 mg fluoride per kilogram body weight , the equivalent amount needed to achieve similar peaks in a 10 kg infant and a 20 kg child would be 1–66 mg and 3.33 mg fluoride respectively . |
| 16 | There was a curtness to her tone , but Debbie did n't seem at all perturbed as she grinned at them both . |
| 17 | Micky Hazard 's goal was a tonic for Swindon . |
| 18 | Their laughter was a tonic to Beth , and she was glad that Cissie had finally begun to forget that terrible night when Maisie was killed , along with poor Meg , and another neighbour who perished while asleep in his bed . |
| 19 | But the scenic grandeur of the mountains was a tonic in itself , and the luxury of those splendid C.P.R. hotels made a memorable holiday . |
| 20 | There was a crack in the deep , old-fashioned wash-basin and a long , red hair was fixed in the crack and floated out in the water as the basin filled . |
| 21 | There was a crack in the woodwork by the door of the manager 's office . |
| 22 | He was a cavalcade of theatrical camp , a marionette who dressed up gay attitudes in new frocks , and sold it to grannies from Neasden . |
| 23 | Mrs MacDonald was a Calgarian by birth , and her husband had been moved north by his firm to run the huge refinery that was now the pride of Tollemarche . |
| 24 | ‘ My husband was a cousin of the young lady to whom the son of the house was engaged . |
| 25 | At times , it looks like little more than nepotism : The Prince of Wales ' last private secretary , Edward Adeane had been a page-of-honour to the Queen in his teens ; his father , Lord Adeane , had been the Queen 's private secretary for nearly twenty years , and his great-grandfather , Lord Stamfordham had been private secretary to George V. George VI 's private secretary , Sir Alan Lascelles , was a cousin of the sixth Lord Harewood , husband of Princess Mary . |
| 26 | There was a cousin of the Westwards in England who would take the child , someone who would arrange Roman Catholic instruction once a week . |
| 27 | Dekko Moore was a cousin of Paccy Moore 's in the shoe shop . |
| 28 | His wife Renée , was a cousin of Sigmund Gestetner , who emigrated to England early in the 1930s and made a personal fortune with the copying machine that carried his name . |
| 29 | The edition of Boswell 's Tour now generally available only refers obliquely to a lack of warmth , and to Boswell 's own ‘ spleen ’ while staying there — all this notwithstanding that the beautiful ( and pregnant ) Lady Macdonald was a cousin of Boswell 's . |
| 30 | And er i did n't know him , you know , my Mother He was a cousin of my Mother 's you see , and on call now and again . |