Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1934 Nizan was in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | It was also natural , given that Crete was on the southern edge of that world , that most , though not all , of the ports were on the north coast . |
| 3 | But she had been forbidden by her mother to have anything to do with her Pascoe cousins , and she was sure Tristram was under the same veto as far as she was concerned ; and for a long time — years — she had never even spoken a word to him . |
| 4 | It is vital never to grant them absolute rights over nomenclature , or you will end up with a child called Aspirin Muesli Harris as poor Tom was for the first week of his life , until it was overruled as being pagan by the Irish Catholic nurse . |
| 5 | The date of the first appearance of a distinct youth style or culture in post-war Britain was in the early fifties . |
| 6 | At the 18th Sandy was in the semi-rough again , this time on the right-hand , with the fairway having yet another of St Georges ' hog 's backs on the way in . |
| 7 | By 1988 Britain was for the first time selling more to the EEC than to the rest of the world ( £47 billion out of £93.5 billion at 1991 prices ) . |