Example sentences of "an [noun] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could not know what an experience was like without knowing whether it was pleasurable or not , but one could know what it was like without recognizing its value , even though this follows necessarily from its being like just what it was . |
| 2 | Almost a decade earlier , he had reached the conclusion that an ethic was in the final analysis " inevitable " , but that in the current historical climate it was " impossible " . |
| 3 | If an atom were to be magnified to 100 metres diameter , the size of a large concert hall , then the nucleus in its centre would be about the size of a grain of salt . |
| 4 | Clearly it will be of crucial importance in any er court proceedings because the court will have to decide whether or not an auditor was in breech of his or her duty having regard to what is on the face of the statute . |
| 5 | And although such an eventuality was beyond my imagination ( like trying to envisage infinity ) and utterly unacceptable to me , I still knew it to be true . |
| 6 | I saw the cherry and realized an opportunity was at hand . |
| 7 | After Liza had made sure an ambulance was on its way to the Rafferty home , she became aware of Celia , thumb in mouth , standing in the doorway of the kitchen . |
| 8 | Within minutes an ambulance was on its way . |
| 9 | The objection in another part is that in order to confirm an hypothesis that an effect was in fact the effect of a causal circumstance of a certain type , we do need an enumeration of elements , and often we do not have an enumeration . |
| 10 | There an attempt was to be made to reach agreement on the date of Easter and to end the discord between Egypt and Rome on the one hand and Syria and Asia Minor on the other . |
| 11 | The Sackvilles were considerable landowners and so quite an inheritance was at stake — enough at any rate to turn Richard into the classic professional litigant before both lay and ecclesiastical courts . |
| 12 | In 1840 we find in the title deeds when William Holding took over the tenancy of the farm that an oast was on the deeds ; after this date , between 1838–47 , the name was changed to Court Farm . |
| 13 | A gift of a large sum of money by an infant was after his death held valid . |
| 14 | No doubt George Dempster was correct when he wrote that ‘ the true spirit of our constitution ought to make it criminal in a member of Parliament to offer any constituent the smallest personal favour ’ , but such an opinion was at variance with the facts of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century life . |
| 15 | He told the Commons that an investigation was under way into last week 's excessive discharge and promised to publish the results . |
| 16 | Yesterday an investigation was under way into how a syringe came into Newall 's possession in spite of his being kept alone and under special surveillance . |
| 17 | AN INVESTIGATION was under way last night after clouds of toxic fumes escaped in a huge chemical factory blaze . |
| 18 | ON March 29 , 1992 , we published an article which alleged that an investigation was in progress into claims that £50,000 , received by Aldershot FC as its share of the gate and other receipts from the FA Cup ties against West Ham in January 1991 , had gone missing . |
| 19 | And a Home Office spokesman said an inquiry was under way into the incident after a complaint made by a ‘ legal visitor ’ that he was assaulted by a prisoner on remand for assaulting a nine-year-old girl . |
| 20 | But he only promised to ‘ do justice ’ regarding the forests created by Henry II and Richard I. An inquiry was to be made in every county by an elected jury of twelve knights into ‘ evil customs ’ of forests , warrens and rivers , and these customs were to be abolished within forty days , provided that the king , or , in his absence , the Justiciar , were first informed . |
| 21 | At first it went slowly , but in December Luch could tell the bees , warm in their straw wrappings , that an heir was on the way . |
| 22 | He had early and with total certainty come to the conclusion that whatever he had as an actor was beyond his comprehension . |
| 23 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 24 | An excellent soldier , Astorre simply accepted the prospect of a night ride to Sigouri , and made no bones about his employer 's decision that , against the King 's wishes , an assault was to be made . |
| 25 | After all , she would certainly have agreed that an apology was in order . |
| 26 | She was rarely at school , kept away constantly by a variety of excuses dreamed up by her father and brothers who all decided that an education was of less use to Ellie than a clean and tidy home was to them . |
| 27 | An inset was at one time created for Skelton , and it resulted in a considerable amount of building on the south side . |
| 28 | From an avowed anti-socialist such an argument was by no means entirely free of complexities ; indeed he seemed aware of them , even to draw pleasure from the difficulty they posed for an opponent who would have to sort out the tangle . |
| 29 | L 379 , p. 1 ) , according to which the levying of any customs duty or charge having equivalent effect and the application of any quantitative restriction or measure having equivalent effect were prohibited in the internal trade of the Community ; ( c ) article 8(1) of that Regulation , which , as regards the payment of an indemnity to producers who were not members of a producers ' organisation , provided that such an indemnity was to be granted without discrimination as to the nationality or place of establishment of the recipients ; ( d ) article 27(2) of that Regulation , which laid down for all fishing vessels flying the flag of one of the member states the principle of equal access to ports and first-stage marketing installations in the other member states ; ( e ) article 5(2) of Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 170/83 , which authorised the member states to determine the detailed rules for the utilisation of the quotas allocated to them , in accordance with the applicable Community provisions ; and ( f ) article 13(2) of Council Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 3094/86 laying down certain technical measures for the conservation of fishery resources ( Official Journal 1986 No . |
| 30 | A former secretary general of the United Nations , a bishop and an artist were among those receiving honorary degrees from Oxford University today . |