Example sentences of "[noun] was [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the middle of the century Arkesilas was himself on the run , fleeing from Cyrene via Euesperides to the west , where he was assassinated . |
| 2 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 3 | Alternatively , the killer was someone from the house who had secured the door to ensure privacy , but opened it again after his crime to confirm the impression that an outsider was involved . |
| 4 | For which of these excursions was he in the company of Yeats ? presumably from the Pound papers now at New Haven it would not be hard to come up with answers to these questions . |
| 5 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
| 6 | One of the most interesting papers on stratigraphical palaeontology published in recent years was one on the dating of old mining camps in the American West by means of beer bottles and beer cans . |
| 7 | Er members will recall that the potential savings that might from the original was something in the order of eight to nine hundred thousand pounds and of course the majority of those er present the saving will be policy will be consideration . |
| 8 | Ignoring his dig , she decided that if the inside was anything like the outside she could bear to wait . |
| 9 | THE FLOW of cards and bouquets was nothing to the stream of very important people arriving at No 10 Downing Street yesterday . |
| 10 | The critical distinction drawn by Lord Bridge of Harwich was one between the decision making functions of the local authority and its executive functions , by which I take Lord Bridge to mean the administrative acts to be performed in giving effect to the relevant decision . |
| 11 | In time , the ever-increasing number of visitors had opened up an entirely new source of income for the Heymouthians , and instead of having to depend on fishing as their primary source of income , they found the tourist trade was theirs for the developing . |
| 12 | Richter 's story was unearthed by Mario Mariscotti who wrote a book in Spanish called The Secret of Huemmel Island in which he tells how Argentina , during the Peronist regime , had mistakenly thought that fusion was its for the asking . |
| 13 | And that voice was nothing like the voice he had heard on the tape of church music . |
| 14 | What size was she at the time of change ? |
| 15 | On the days he was going to see her , he woke up feeling that anything was possible , that the world was his for the asking . |
| 16 | and he could n't do it and the worse thing was everybody in the pool had gone go on |
| 17 | So , er , what the description was there by the way , it 's not meant to be a description of the person . |
| 18 | By then , at the end of the century , the Secretary 's power was his for the taking . |