Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such thinking was behind the absurd argument that the police should be restrained from giving hot pursuit to stolen cars , and it also lay behind much of the nit-picking objection to the Bill that we heard from the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook . |
| 2 | The original deal was for the same time and same sum , but the difference now is that the new contract covers rugby only for the age bracket between 16 and 18 . |
| 3 | The motion-work was at the very apogee of clockmaking technology and the case-work enjoyed a world wide reputation for quality of design and good taste , all at very competitive pricing . |
| 4 | Her only consciousness was of the pulsing energy washing over her , picking her up , carrying her along whether she willed it or not , his body pulsing against her own with its blatant male need , and she felt helpless against it . |
| 5 | The bedroom was on the same level as the terrace , the small sitting-room and the kitchen , and so she waited for the sound of another door or footsteps on the stone staircase down to the entrance hall . |
| 6 | Sarah 's bedroom was at the other end of the landing , next to her brother 's . |
| 7 | She took the torch , using it freely now because speed was of the first importance , and stealth of none at all , and went on down the slippery path towards the thick box hedge , behind which the invisible red roof hung , representing help and companionship . |
| 8 | The cutlery was from the same state factory and had the same design and so did the plates , the menu , and the waiters . |
| 9 | For instance , a study of the dies used for the bronze coinage of Antoninus Pius ( AD 138–61 ) circulating in Britain has suggested that the total stock of bronze coinage in circulation was of the general magnitude of about ten million sestertii ; as the population of the province was about five million at the time , we can conclude from the low figure of two sestertii per capita that most of the population can not have used coinage on anything like the scale required in a fully monetised society ( see also p. 51 ) . |
| 10 | She wondered if he ever dropped it ; she could sense that , however fluently he talked , however intently he listened — and he listened very intently — his mind was at the same time pursuing some other parallel track . |
| 11 | The High court ruled that the documentary Murder in Mind was in the public interest , but within hours , an appeal was launched . |
| 12 | ‘ But the brother-in-law was in the same line of business . ’ |
| 13 | Then last week a second note , in the same handwriting , informed Mrs Allan that the search was on the wrong side of the bridge . |
| 14 | The exit to the roof was on the other side of floor 5 so Ralph went back through the door into the large room . |
| 15 | When it was discovered that a member of the Immigration Department was in the National Front his seniors merely glossed over it , saying that he was not a permanent member and in any case it did not affect the way he carried out his duties . |
| 16 | Sources from both clubs said they understood the new bid was from the same source , but an Argyll spokesman refused to confirm or deny that the company was behind the bid . |
| 17 | The major focus of the research was on the large superstore located in the Bowthorpe shopping centre . |
| 18 | The strongest image I got from his stories and subsequent research was of the oppressive jungle and heat in which the soldiers fought . |
| 19 | Charles Hernu , bombarded the conference delegates with sweet talk on how useful defence research was for the civil sector and how good they were to researchers . |
| 20 | The Kritian boy looked even more slightly to his right , but his weight was on the other leg . |
| 21 | Your weight was on the wrong foot . |
| 22 | Snaith was on the eastern fringe of the West Riding of Yorkshire but since the 1974 boundary reorganisation , it is on the western fringe of Britain 's newest county , North Humberside . |
| 23 | The study was under the general direction of one author ( ALB ) with the assistance of three regional chairmen ( RA , MC , HG ) and 40 local medical supervisors . |
| 24 | The Headmaster 's Study was on the first floor next to Four . |
| 25 | At suppertime in the servants ’ hall all the talk was of the coming party . |
| 26 | ‘ The car was on the wrong side of the road travelling fast . |
| 27 | Karl Leyser has shown that this was a ‘ patrimonially ’ , not a ‘ bureaucratically ’ , governed society ; rule was by the personal presence of an itinerant ruler , the exercise of his patronage , the close bonds which he could establish with his followers , and the ceremonial projection of his sacrality . |
| 28 | Turnover was on the low side at 529 million . |
| 29 | This vote was of the utmost significance . |
| 30 | At the back of her mind , it occurred to her how different real crime was from the glamorous violence portrayed on the screen . |