Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [pron] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps his greatest vulnerability was one shared with the great mass of mankind : a vanity which affected many aspects of his life , and which as he grew older increased his claims for credit for almost every activity within human reach . |
| 2 | With the formation of the coalition in May 1940 , the central organisation was itself weakened by the absorption of the two leading officers of the Research Department into the government : Arthur Greenwood took office in Churchill 's Cabinet and Grant McKenzie was recruited to assist Attlee in the latter 's government tasks . |
| 3 | One must remember , too , that Patrick Barrington 's literary platypus was herself employed in the Foreign Office ! |
| 4 | As she sat facing him , rigidly upright , he saw that her chair was one designed for the disabled with a button in the armrest to raise the seat when she wanted help in rising . |
| 5 | The purity movement was itself divided over the new proposals . |
| 6 | and the , the second sleep walk was I came down the stairs er they were having supper , of course when I was very young we went to bed early er I come down the stairs and opened the door and then I woke up . |
| 7 | Ironically , then , the trajectory which today produces the Marxist argument that poststructuralism neglects history was itself initiated by the claim that Marxism itself had been invalidated by history . |
| 8 | The odd game of faro and whist was nothing compared with the kisses she shared with the marquis . |
| 9 | Not for the first time was I confronted by the limitations of the mighty Talisman of Shag ; neither the giant oak doors of the western entrance , nor the south porch , nor any of the transept doorways yield to it . |