Example sentences of "[pron] was [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've spent 13 years travelling the world with badminton — I was coach to the Australian side at the last World Championships — and it will be nice to spend some time at home . |
| 2 | I was secretary of the working party which produced the statement . |
| 3 | Malc was still struggling to revive our ailing business , leaving me to travel alone and , despite my well-earned local reputation for purity — ‘ The only place Marti Caine performs is on stage ’ — I was prey to the occasional foreign wolf . |
| 4 | I was way down the other end , so I did n't see much of it . |
| 5 | ‘ I was second in the Mediterranean Open in March and in the PGA Championship at Wentworth in May , but I did n't keep going . |
| 6 | Angela and I was head of the International Department from nineteen forty-eight to nineteen seventy-two . |
| 7 | I actually invited him when I was Director of the British Film Academy to come to London erm and with the help erm of Brian Coe of Kodak we actually reconstructed about thirty seconds of this two-colour process erm and put it on a screen for our filmmaker colleagues in London . |
| 8 | Four years later , as I mentioned above , I was party to the same fear at Bramshill , in relation to the use of the Nato sweater . |
| 9 | The Wallingfen court in the Vale of York set an upper limit for animals on the common in 1636 which was way above the actual carrying capacity of the land . |
| 10 | If you have time , it is worth climbing on to the observation terrace on the site of the tiny Chapel of Holy Mary of Einsiedel which was part of the Theatine Monastery below . |
| 11 | It may be argued that , in 1986 , the Government rejected the idea of abandoning the adjudicatory role of the prison visitors board , which was part of the Prior recommendations , so , as they had gone some way to changing the internal discipline regime , they might reasonably look again at Prior . |
| 12 | When a colony was launched as the property of a single owner he , or one of his family , might go out to oversee the administration but he was unlikely to cut his links with England , if only because it was important to be able to maintain the court favour which was part of the political strength needed by anyone who wanted to run a colony on his own . |
| 13 | They had n't much — just the handholds of the companion , the locker hinges , and the pump-handle of the heads , which was part of the original equipment and was engraved with the date : 1905 . |
| 14 | The author was born in Kronstadt , part of the ethnic German enclave in Transylvania — a region which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the beginning of the century but which had been handed over to Romania after World War I. Faced by the prospect of conscription into the Romanian army in World War II , the author volunteered for the Waffen-SS . |
| 15 | It also refused to accept his nomination of Artur Balasz as the new Agricultural Minister in place of Czeslaw Janicki , a member of the Polish Peasant 's Party ( ZSL ) which was part of the ruling coalition , who had resigned on July 5 , claiming that the government had neglected farm policy [ see below ] . |
| 16 | This link accounted for Osprey 's directors ' interest in Crane Holdings which was part of the same network . |
| 17 | His advocacy is not surprising : he never abandoned the interventionism which was part of the conventional wisdom in the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 18 | As well as being an ideal wife and mother , and a symbol of social reform , she also represented a strong Western influence which was anathema to the Shiite clergy and to many ordinary , conservative Iranians . |
| 19 | She was secretary to the Conservative agent in Darlington for 17 years . |
| 20 | She was secretary of the local Red Cross for many years and on retirement was made an honorary life member and awarded a badge of honour . |
| 21 | She sat and held her breath , and felt that she could hear the trees growing around her and that she was part of the same quiet measured progress , in a world devoid of people . |
| 22 | She was chairman of the British section for ten years but left , partly because she believed that the League 's pacifism was unrealistic . |
| 23 | During the war of 1914–18 she was chairman of the American Women 's War Hospital in Paignton , and served personally in a hospital at Lancaster Gate . |
| 24 | The decision created ripples throughout California , Joanne is a computer expert , she was head of the technical division at the California state lottery until her firing earlier this year after a period of sick leave . |
| 25 | She was matron of the large Dufferin Hospital which was bombed on Christmas Day , and in fear eighty of her Burmese nurses fled , leaving her with two English sisters , and a few good Anglo-Indian nurses . |
| 26 | She visited hospitals and schools , even a school for the deaf , where she boasted that she was President of the British Deaf Association . |
| 27 | She was president of the Genetical Society in 1936 . |
| 28 | In Hampstead she was president of the local committee of the National Union of Women 's Suffrage Societies . |
| 29 | The headmaster of a school in Tazarbu lived with his father who was doorman in the same school . |
| 30 | After a few seconds ' thought I realised that she meant their President , that is the former General who was dictator with the continuing consent of their other commanders . |