Example sentences of "was [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His most important legacy to meteorology was as secretary of the International Meteorological Committee from its inception in 1874 until 1900 . |
| 2 | The main story was about trouble in the Middle East and a subsidiary one about racial trouble in West London , street fighting mainly and breaking shop windows . |
| 3 | It was after noon on the following day before we got a rope round Father and managed to haul him slowly out of the chimney . |
| 4 | The IBA was of course on the liberal wing of the Establishment , but it knew where to draw the line . |
| 5 | By far the largest single gathering was of course in the Stant Collection at Robert Dale Owen University in New Mexico , where Mortimer Cropper worked on his monumental edition of the Complete Correspondence of Randolph Henry Ash . |
| 6 | ‘ Once , a long time ago , I was of Wrath in the far northwest . |
| 7 | The 1931 general election was the last election until that of February 1974 at which the electoral performance of the Liberals was of significance to the two major parties . |
| 8 | But since the Free Officers had overthrown the Sanusis , the main evocation was of hostility to the present regime . |
| 9 | Upper abdominal ultrasound was abnormal in 10 ; the most common abnormality was of dilatation of the common bile duct ( eight ) but pathological biliary thickening was noted in three of these and in an additional two without duct dilatation . |
| 10 | This was of interest to the eminent German chemist F. A. Kekulé , but he failed to repeat Couper 's experiment : many years later Couper was proved perfectly correct . |
| 11 | Mr Makweto said the PAC was against power-sharing with the ruling National Party and the formation of an interim government . |
| 12 | ‘ If your mother was into flower-power in the sixties , these are the kind of clothes she would have worn . ’ |
| 13 | Rescue teams were quickly reinforced by United States military units operating from bases in the Philippines , the future of which was under discussion between the two countries at the time of the disaster [ see p. 37458 ] . |
| 14 | A SEARCH was under way for the two companions of a hillwalker found dead in the Cairngorms last night . |
| 15 | While travelling on the mainland of South America , Darwin was brought face to face with the conflict that was under way between the European settlers and the native Indians . |
| 16 | A takeover was under way by the grey men and the only ones who survived it were the grey people . |
| 17 | Although Port-au-Prince was under fire from the oldest and most primitive of artillery pieces , which were so ill-preserved as to be as dangerous to their operators as to their targets , the effect was still terrifying to the populace , who were unused to the banshee wail that echoed overhead and preceded bone-crushing explosive impacts . |
| 18 | Gingrich was under investigation concerning the unusual methods used to promote the sale of a book which he had co-authored by which contributors put up funds in advance of royalties . |
| 19 | The Chief of Federal Police , Romeu Tuma , who was under investigation by the military police allegedly for favouring smugglers shipping coffee into Paraguay , announced on April 1 that he intended to resign . |
| 20 | Throughout August King Hussein was under pressure on the one hand to abide by the UN resolution to impose sanctions on Iraq and denounce the invasion of Kuwait , but on the other hand Iraq and the mass of Jordanians wanted Jordan to support Saddam Hussein 's anti-US crusade and keep open Baghdad 's lifeline through the Red Sea port of Aqaba . |
| 21 | American policy was in disarray over the appropriate response to the communist threat in the small South-East Asian state of Laos . |
| 22 | This was in accordance with the expressed intention of the Act to merge the previously separate concepts of ‘ delinquent ’ and ‘ deprived ’ into one category of ‘ children in trouble ’ . |
| 23 | Although she had never said so , his instinct had told him immediately he 'd seen her with Harry that she was in love with the young man — a devastatingly handsome young man — whose manner towards Alice had been affectionate but certainly not lover-like . |
| 24 | Later the film director said he was in love with the young woman , who was adopted by Farrow and Andre Previn when they were married . |
| 25 | Upstairs the red-haired man was in bed with the only woman in the group . |
| 26 | Only an empty yellow raft was in sight in the lit-up area . |
| 27 | It appeared to the Commission that , aside from certain cases involving fantasy or malice , a request for service forwarded abroad met a precise need , and it could be presumed that such a request was in compliance with the procedural law of the forum , since this step would otherwise make no sense . |
| 28 | She could see the face of Tim thrust out of the window and guessed that the look of triumph playing over it was in expectation of the early capture of herself ! |
| 29 | The apparent trend to the Left in the Labour Party was in keeping with the political atmosphere of the times , but it was not strong enough to force the abandoning of official opposition to any form of the Unity Campaign . |
| 30 | In 1937 the Socialist Unity Party of Catalonia was created by an amalgamation which was in keeping with the United Front tactic of the eventual creation of a single Left party . |