Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] was [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was six months before their debut album was in the shops and by that time public interest in them had waned . |
| 2 | The only styling change was to the headlamps with the plexiglass shells removed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The stock market was in the doldrums at the close yesterday with the FT-SE 100 Index static . |
| 7 | Slade Mill was in the hands of Edward William Cook from the 1890s , up to the First World War . |
| 8 | Loch Ness was in the pages again , this time because the only known Wellington bomber to exist is on the bottom . |
| 9 | My nearest desk companion was from the offices of Dr Barnardo 's Homes at Barkingside . |
| 10 | What Tughlukabad was to the military of fourteenth-century Delhi , the suburb of Hauz Khas was to the savants . |
| 11 | The leader in this initiative was the Spanish canonist Cardinal Arcadio Larraona , patron of Opus Dei , and Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was among the signatories . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Also , Tom Robinson was in the charts with ‘ Glad To Be Gay ’ and there was a general atmosphere of tolerance towards gays . |
| 14 | Sister Robinson was at the nurses ' station , talking to one of the first-year nurses , when Juliet arrived back on the ward . |
| 15 | But intellectually , on this and a number of different fronts , town planning was on the frontiers of change . |
| 16 | My first published piece of nature writing was about the pinewoods of Abernethy . |
| 17 | Husband Don was at the births . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Bishop Peter has been bishop of Gloucester for just eight months and Prince Charles was among the guests at his enthronement in April . |
| 20 | In case you 'd forgotten , Martin Shaw was in The Professionals . |
| 21 | What a busy place Shrewsbury Station was in the days of steam ! |
| 22 | In the event Mazzin was after the notebooks we 'd stuffed down the front of our pyjamas . |
| 23 | Irish senator Gordon Wilson was among the mourners — his daughter , Marie , died in the IRA 's Enniskillen Remembrance Day blast in 1987 . |
| 24 | Yesterday Ian Walker , prosecuting , told Darlington magistrates Mrs Wilson was in the ladies at Club Lucy 's in Darlington when a young woman asked who she was . |
| 25 | Since Mrs Stych was at the Ladies of Scotland 's Tea , there was no reply . |
| 26 | Six goals … two penalties … a sending off … a carrying off … a touchline bust-up … the Manor Ground was like a fireworks factory on saturday as Denis Smith kicked off his reign as manager of Oxford United |
| 27 | Edinburgh 's Lord Provost Norman Irons was among the councillors who opposed their use of the City Chambers . |
| 28 | The main criticism of DPP v K was in the words of Bennett and Hogan , All ER Rev 1990 , 69 , that it brought the " thoughtlessly stupid " into the criminal law . |
| 29 | Adamski , Beats International and a local dance outfit called Rejeuvenation performed live ; the Hacienda 's Jon Da Silva was among the DJs : and a bar till 1am , plus an all-night juice bar , kept the crowd refreshed till going home time 8am . |
| 30 | This case concerned the law before the implementation of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , but the impact of this Act on exclusion clauses was in the minds of their lordships . |