Example sentences of "of [noun prp] was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quiet Gloucestershire village of Charfield was on the main line of the LMS , situated between Gloucester and Bristol . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Corporation of Manchester was among the first to build sewers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |