Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other than in Ipswich , where the WEA branch was among the small group of vigorous , active and well-organised centres in the District , there appeared to be little prospect for development without LEA-funded support in the pre-war years and , as in West Suffolk , the development of a substantial WEA presence did not occur until after the 1939–45 war . |
| 2 | Suddenly the Elsie McAndrew affair was in the national news headlines . |
| 3 | The Swan Inn was on the far side of the village from Fern Cottage , situated close to the bridge over the river Windrush . |
| 4 | The first detectable expression of GGF mRNA was in the nervous system , beginning at embryonic day ( E ) 10.5 to 11 . |
| 5 | A key UDF demand was for the general election , currently scheduled for no later than June , to be postponed until November , in order to give opposition parties more time to organize . |
| 6 | Tilly Whim was at the southern end . |
| 7 | The Harvard dealer was on the sharp end of clients ' complaints . |
| 8 | I am comfortable in my maze which is laid out like the one at Hampton Court was by the Great Killer 's chief minister , Cardinal Thomas Wolsey . |
| 9 | In China jade was from the first shaped for symbolic rather than industrial ends . |
| 10 | The leadership also has a new control , which makes it less likely to be unhorsed by its own interest-groups than the Callaghan Government was in the late 1970s . |
| 11 | In 1917 Kursk guberniia was amongst the worst twelve Russian provinces affected by disorganized rural unrest . |
| 12 | The characteristic emphasis of the Princeton theology was on the inspired and infallible authority of the Bible . |
| 13 | The talk at Rutland Water was of the potential market , which could run to between 1,000 and 2,000 boats a year , in Britain and abroad , for many years . |
| 14 | The terminus at Thornton Heath was at the busy junction where the High Street met Grange Road and Whitehorse Lane . |
| 15 | All the same , the Joyce family was in the first of many groups to endure the consequences of allegiance to an ousted imperial power . |
| 16 | For Chapman , however , the Leeds affair was in the dim and distant past as he steered Huddersfield Town to a second League Championship . |