Example sentences of "the [noun prp] was [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British view that membership of the EEC was in essence about trade persisted through the signing in 1986 of the Single European Act , though in this case even the main text that was agreed ranged rather wider than the limits that the British had set themselves . |
| 2 | It soon became clear that almost everyone in the Curia was in favour of making a distinction between investiture and homage , forbidding that which no one strongly supported , and gradually abandoning that to which almost no one strongly objected . |
| 3 | Most people in the territories feared the PLO was in danger of rushing into some unsatisfactory settlement rather than holding out for the right conditions . |
| 4 | But in this one the Tao was at war with itself . |
| 5 | The Luftwaffe was in possession of the former RAF forward airfields in the Mersa Matruh and Fuka area . |
| 6 | The Prince of the Asturias was in contact with this aristocratic opposition , publishing caricatures distributed in taverns in order to discredit his father 's court and the favourite around which it centred . |
| 7 | The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the whole of the UK was in October at a five-year high of 10.1 per cent . |
| 8 | When the UK was in deficit with both regions , the deficit with the EC was much larger than that with the ROW . |
| 9 | Lord Justice Dillon disagreed and said he would have granted a declaration that the UK was in breach of its obligations under the Treaty of Rome and European law . |
| 10 | In 1978 and 1983 when the UK was in surplus with the rest of the world , a significant deficit was registered with the EC . |
| 11 | Mr Makweto said the PAC was against power-sharing with the ruling National Party and the formation of an interim government . |
| 12 | By the time the Wyrmberg was in front of them , swinging wildly across the sky , the dragon was as real as a rock . |
| 13 | If anybody had seen me they must have thought the SAS was on exercise in the area . |
| 14 | The President might not want them , but sense , and democracy , required it ; so while part of the NSC was on fire with the President 's wishes , another part was turning out position papers of a hopeless and reasonable kind . |
| 15 | The IBA was of course on the liberal wing of the Establishment , but it knew where to draw the line . |