Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The principal cipher clerk in the Vatican was on the Hanoverian pay-roll , as was a senior clerk in the French Foreign Office , and the latter , in February 1744 , supplied details of the French invasion plans , which were sufficiently convincing for George II , on 15 February 1744 , to send a warning message to Parliament .
2 At 11.42am the Toyota was in the head-on collision with a Vauxhall Cavalier in which a family of four from West Kirby was travelling to Chester Zoo .
3 At 11.42am the Toyota was in the head-on collision with a Vauxhall Cavalier in which a family of four from West Kirkby was travelling to Chester Zoo .
4 ‘ In general , it is hard to locate a major new technology developed in any country for which the USSR was among the earlier foreign purchasers of machinery or know-how . ’
5 The memory that would always stay with the Lerskys was of the tiny Lieserl waddling along the platform .
6 The BBC was in the loony left 's pocket even then ! ) .
7 His quarrel with the TUC was about the narrow vision that Millar thought they applied to education , confining themselves to practical day-to-day union matters and ignoring socialist principles .
8 The Kurhotel was on the next block , a 1950s five-storey tower of glass and unpainted concrete that had once been the pride of East German architecture .
9 The USA was in the opposite camp , fighting for complete free enterprise for airlines ( except in situations in which US airlines were subject to foreign discrimination ) and open access to all countries .
10 The Ferrari was on the ideal line for the bend , Brett Lunger came through , struck it and pushed it a hundred yards down the track where it burst into flames .
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