Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While considering help and resources for Church of England communities , mention must be made of Stanbrook , a Roman Catholic abbey whose Dame Laurentia McLachlan and Dame Hildelith Cumming were amongst the pioneers of the modern use of plainchant . |
| 2 | AN ELECTRICAL retailer , a garden centre and a milk processor were among the winners of this year 's Scottish Marketing Awards . |
| 3 | Bicester Rugby Club were in the semi-finals of the Provincial Insurance Cup following an excellent hard four weeks , to go to Gloucester opponents , Hucklecote Old Boys at this afternoon . |
| 4 | On closer examination , however , it was immediately clear that Franco did not trust the Falangists in the areas most closely related to the exercise of real power ( i.e. to the control of the force of arms ) : all three defence Ministries were in the hands of military men well known for anti-Falangist political sympathies . |
| 5 | It was six months before their debut album was in the shops and by that time public interest in them had waned . |
| 6 | BARBARA and NEIL TAYLOR were among the founders of the Shared Earth Trust and now work for the Trust as its project co- ordinators at the Denmark Farm Conservation Centre . |
| 7 | The only styling change was to the headlamps with the plexiglass shells removed . |
| 8 | MP Simon Burns and Chelmsford Mayor Edgar Roberts were among the dignitaries who attended Under Pressure 's official opening yesterday afternoon . |
| 9 | Edinburgh , Stirling and Paisley universities were among the institutions which fared well in the exercise , but there was some disappointment at Glasgow and Aberdeen universities . |
| 10 | Amongst the villagers , the division on Friday night was between the men , who had been in the pub and could vouch for each other , and the wives , who had been watching telly at home and could n't , but who seemed knowledgeable , when pressed , about a number of ITV programmes . |
| 11 | When you analyse the four goals Spartak scored over there , one was a penalty , another down to Bruce Grobbelaar 's eccentricities and a third one scored when emergency keeper David Burrows was between the posts . |
| 12 | However no shareholder rebellion was on the cards given the satisfaction with the group 's recent performance and only a handful of investors voted against the proposal . |
| 13 | The stock market was in the doldrums at the close yesterday with the FT-SE 100 Index static . |
| 14 | Slade Mill was in the hands of Edward William Cook from the 1890s , up to the First World War . |
| 15 | Loch Ness was in the pages again , this time because the only known Wellington bomber to exist is on the bottom . |
| 16 | As with a number of other regions , a number of these early mill sites were in the hands of religious foundations , such as the Benedictines and Cistercian Orders who , up to the time of their suppression in the 16th century , owned as many mills as any of the estates or manors in Britain . |
| 17 | My nearest desk companion was from the offices of Dr Barnardo 's Homes at Barkingside . |
| 18 | England and Spain remained nominally at peace for another half-dozen years , but disputes about trading and commerce-raiding in South America were among the reasons why philip II tried to invade England in 1588 . |
| 19 | What Tughlukabad was to the military of fourteenth-century Delhi , the suburb of Hauz Khas was to the savants . |
| 20 | The leader in this initiative was the Spanish canonist Cardinal Arcadio Larraona , patron of Opus Dei , and Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was among the signatories . |
| 21 | The problems of acid rain , atmospheric pollution and climate change were among the problems discussed at a conference of forestry experts from 30 European nations on Dec. 18-19. with the aim of developing a common policy which will safeguard the forests of Europe . |
| 22 | But by now Winnie Ewing was in the throes of her by-election campaign to win Hamilton for the SNP , and aware of how fervently I agreed with everything she was saying ( and wished a Liberal had been saying ) I felt it would be dishonest to hold back any longer . |
| 23 | Christopher Biggins , Lorraine Chase , Lord Owen , Oz Clarke , Delia Smith and Bruce Oldfield were among the glitterati . |
| 24 | Also , Tom Robinson was in the charts with ‘ Glad To Be Gay ’ and there was a general atmosphere of tolerance towards gays . |
| 25 | Sister Robinson was at the nurses ' station , talking to one of the first-year nurses , when Juliet arrived back on the ward . |
| 26 | But intellectually , on this and a number of different fronts , town planning was on the frontiers of change . |
| 27 | My first published piece of nature writing was about the pinewoods of Abernethy . |
| 28 | Husband Don was at the births . |
| 29 | Manoeuvring by the Unitarian from Liverpool , Francis Bishop , got a statement from Chamerovzow that no resolution repudiating the American Anti-Slavery Society was on the books of the BFASS . |
| 30 | Bishop Peter has been bishop of Gloucester for just eight months and Prince Charles was among the guests at his enthronement in April . |