Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only time that Gooch performed well for Gower was in the 1985 Ashes series , when England won 3–1 and David had his finest hour , but on the two occasions when Gooch 's help was most desperately needed — against West Indies in 1985–86 and Australia in 1989 — Gooch 's total contribution was 459 runs at 24.16 . |
| 2 | The quiet Gloucestershire village of Charfield was on the main line of the LMS , situated between Gloucester and Bristol . |
| 3 | St Maximin of Trier was on the other side of Otto I 's kingdom from Magdeburg and the Slavs , but this was the monastery from which Adalbert came . |
| 4 | The Corporation of Manchester was among the first to build sewers . |
| 5 | It is true that by reason of its distance from the epicentre , the Vancouver region of CBC was outside the main force of ‘ the troubles ’ that beset our colleagues in eastern Canada , but we certainly suffered from the backlash , including political staff changes , cuts in programme budgets and overall policy alterations and counter-changes . |
| 6 | Not only was this St Vitus ' Day , but the ascent of Leo was in the appropriate conjunction with the sun and Saturn , and the date and time of 1357.9.7.5.31 was deemed numerically prophetic . |
| 7 | Varnhem Abbey Church in Västergötland was of the Cistercian Order . |
| 8 | His wife down in Syracuse was of the same opinion . |
| 9 | He said the growth in Britain was through the derivative crack , which could easily be made from cocaine and a readily available ingredient , and then smoked . |
| 10 | Another winner from Newcastle was for the best overall score from the two rounds of golf which Steve Ridley , surveyor won . |
| 11 | The reply from London was in the negative — to me a tragic decision . |
| 12 | Any entertaining I had to do in London was in the United Services Club . |
| 13 | It need have been irrelevant only at the time the edition of the digesta was made , which according to Schulz was in the late third century . |
| 14 | Normalair-Garrett ( NGL ) at Crewkerne was among the first companies to introduce flexible manufacturing in the UK . |
| 15 | The Official Unionists within the UUUC argued stubbornly that the most effective place from which to influence events at Westminster was inside the Conservative Party . |
| 16 | Then again , English at Oxford was on the defensive against the other faculties . |