Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] was [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social life for Malinowski was like capitalism for Keynes : ‘ a going concern ’ , in which individuals interacted with each other in pursuit of mutually rewarding transactions . |
| 2 | An exhibition of some of the work and research carried out by the University of Stirling was on display in the crush hall . |
| 3 | Activation of c-Myc was by addition of β -oestradiol ( 2μM ) to the culture medium , and cells were observed by time-lapse cinemicroscopy . |
| 4 | A friend of Stalin was in charge of security . |
| 5 | From Boswell we learn that the Laird of Macleod was in debt to the tune of forty thousand pounds , and this Hebridean Micawber had an income of only thirteen hundred a year . |
| 6 | It was concerned with the story that Archimedes had found a way of discovering if a crown made for King Hiero of Syracuse was in fact of pure gold , as it was supposed to be , or had been adulterated with a cheaper metal . |
| 7 | If , for instance , the king of France was at war with the king of Aragon or Castile and called upon the king of England , as duke of Aquitaine , to serve him according to his oath , how could former treaties of alliance between England and Aragon or Castile be broken ? |
| 8 | At the time the city was devastated by a huge earthquake in 1923 , the population of Tokyo was in excess of 3.5 million . |
| 9 | Her behaviour towards Falati was in breach of a promise she had made to her husband before the trial that she would curb her temper and her excesses and maintain a low profile , the ANC sources said . |
| 10 | On May 12 the UN Secretary-General , Boutros Boutros-Ghali , made recommendations , based on Goulding 's report , to the Security Council that ( i ) UNPROFOR headquarters should no longer be in Sarajevo for the safety of its own personnel ; ( ii ) no UN peacekeeping force should be sent to Bosnia-Hercegovina ; ( iii ) the UN peace plan for Croatia was in jeopardy from the failure of Serbs in Croatia to demobilize . |
| 11 | The Methodist Church in Ireland was in session during an unsuccessful attempt by the government to quash the running of the referendum . |
| 12 | A young man from Canada was on holiday in Scotland , ( I understand he was living with an aunt , locally ) , and had attached himself to Sam . |
| 13 | But her chief work for music in Cumbria was as Secretary for 20 years of the Cumbria Rural Choirs . |
| 14 | What suggestions are there in this extract that British influence in Europe was in decline during the middle decades of the nineteenth century ? |
| 15 | The couple 's flat in Wandsworth was worth £64,000 against a mortgage debt of £83,000 when the bank gave notice of repossession . |
| 16 | Leonardo 's only documented visit to Venice was in April of 1503 , and his influence on the Veneto is not easy to document precisely . |
| 17 | Within hours , the International Secretariat 's researcher responsible for work on Columbia was in contact with WARN coordinators in USA , Canada and UK , who immediately sent appeals to the Governor of Cauca urging that the indigenous leaders be released and that no further force be used against the demonstrators . |
| 18 | The commission that had brought us to Préfleur was for music to a libretto by M. Xavier Frontenac . |
| 19 | Brasenose Hall at Oxford was in existence by the mid-thirteenth century and probably derives its name from ‘ brazen nose ’ . |
| 20 | The classic example of the inequality faced by BR was at Dornoch on the line between Inverness and Wick/Thurso . |