Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority were in the private sector . |
| 2 | Boots continued to multiply , though the majority were in the expanding field of leisure walking . |
| 3 | The hiss was clear on MW and LW while the calculator was within a few feet of the set , but not on FM . |
| 4 | The boiler was like an upright wooden barrel banded with copper . |
| 5 | The remainder were from a reputable information book written for use in school . |
| 6 | For studies of ICJ transit , with this method , a value of 1 indicated that all the isotope was in the first 4 cm of ileum ; a value of 6 indicated that all isotope was in the caecum or colon . |
| 7 | Besides , in some ways the change was for the better . |
| 8 | With phosphatidylethanolamine most of the cholesterol ( 85% ) was in the vesicular fraction , while with phosphatidylserine most of the cholesterol was in the non-vesicular fractions ( 80% ) . |
| 9 | With a saturated fatty acid ( palmitic acid ) in the sn-1 position and the polyunsaturated arachidonic acid in sn-2 position most of the cholesterol was in the non-vesicular phase . |
| 10 | With a saturated fatty acid in the sn-1 position ( palmitic acid ) and arachidonic acid in sn-2 position most of the cholesterol was in the non-vesicular phase . |
| 11 | The bulb was in a little ventilation window above the door . |
| 12 | The only difference between ancient Greek tragedy and modern revolutionary tragedy is that in the former the struggle was against a distant , unknowable , divine power , whereas in the latter the struggle is against an all-too-present social order manufacturing poverty , disease , unemployment and war . |
| 13 | In this first type of exclamation , the impression then is that the person who would have been evoked as the subject if the verb were in a finite form is represented as somehow before the infinitive event . |
| 14 | His bid for the throne was in the first instance an aspect of Merovingian family politics . |
| 15 | You see the primary was in the one side and the high school the secondary was in the other . |
| 16 | ‘ But in the Government 's view the Department 's handling of the case was within the acceptable range of standards reasonably to be expected of a regulator . ’ |
| 17 | The grave was in the new cemetery plot , with a figure of Jesus crowned in gold on the headstone . |
| 18 | The field was near a quiet road . |
| 19 | And erm , the the Clerk was in a flat spin , because he had n't got a card , which said , I affirm that , what I say is the truth , the whole truth and nothing but the truth , and the recorder himself was was about |
| 20 | The contract was for a fixed term of five years . |
| 21 | The grant was to an individual , and could be revoked if the recipient lost the king 's favour ; but the son of the original tenant would expect , other things being equal , to " inherit " the benefice . |
| 22 | Unfortunately the apartment was at the very top and it was quite a struggle to drag Maidstone up the eight or ten flights of stairs . |
| 23 | Lee felt a little puffed ; the apartment was at the very top of a tall riverside block without a lift . |
| 24 | The tension in the kitchen was like an electric current . |
| 25 | It took Rosemary about a minute to answer the door , but , as all the flats in the building were of the same layout , Leith 's ‘ Ready ? ’ query never got said . |
| 26 | Founded in 1269 , most of the building was of the fourteenth century , though it has been extensively restored after damage in the late Middle Ages . |
| 27 | Already worn out after their day 's activities , the hope was for an early night . |
| 28 | Arguments about the quality of particular animals in a payment scarcely arose when the payment was in a standardized currency : no one asked , ‘ Well now , which of these dinars do you promise me ? ’ |
| 29 | There were newspapers on a table , the story was on an open page and if Marshall had not closed the paper and pushed it beneath others , Wickham 's curiosity would not have been aroused . |
| 30 | The story was in the public interest . |