Example sentences of "was [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So taken was I with the lines of the corners and the graduations of power through the gears that all the rules and strictures of the racing school fled my mind . |
| 2 | British members of Parliament invariably use it in their own defence when their opinions diverge from those of their constituency parties ; and the Labour Party 's introduction of compulsory reselection for sitting MPs before each general election was one of the catalysts of the split in the party which led to the formation of the Social Democratic Party in 1981 . |
| 3 | I was one of the pillarists in the Nelson case and only wish our column had been one of more magnificent dimensions . |
| 4 | For a nation of radicals and independents such as France , the creation of the Union Sacrée whereby men of all political hues submerged their feuds in the interests of national unity was one of the miracles of all time . |
| 5 | In between time as I say we 'd had 's header wide which was one of the mysteries of the first half . |
| 6 | That was one of the challenges of his life . |
| 7 | The story of St Godric was one of the foundations of Henri Pirenne 's notions about the recruitment of merchants in this age . |
| 8 | During the 1890s they carried out work on inductive telegraphy , which was particularly important for communication with lighthouses and lightships , and Preece was one of the members of the royal commission on electrical communication with lighthouses and light vessels . |
| 9 | Environmental engineer Andrew Olleveant , who was one of the members of the first group , had a number of key issues to cover during his trip to Russia . |
| 10 | Paul Beniston , who obtained his BA in Music in 1987 , was one of the members of Royal Fort Brass , a brass quintet formed in 1985 , who entertained many audiences with their wide-ranging repertoire , both serious and humorous . |
| 11 | That was one of the problems of using the piste and a sextant . |
| 12 | Was one of the problems with the public perception of women deacons the fact that they did , often , look so like librarians ? |
| 13 | Bradstreet was one of the commissioners of the United Colonies for thirty-three years . |
| 14 | George Katona was one of the pioneers of this sort of work . |
| 15 | Sun 's other weak point may be the fact that WABI 's Praxsys creators come from BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd , where they would have had access to MS-DOS , although Phoenix was one of the pioneers of the concept of the clean room , where no-one that has any inside knowledge of the code being emulated is allowed to come into contact with the developers of the emulation . |
| 16 | Son of cartoonist William Heath Robinson , Dom Basil was one of the pioneers of the pottery at Prinknash Abbey , Gloucestershire and was known for his work in sculpture and stained glass . |
| 17 | was one of the pioneers of embalming and did much to promote it within the Co-operative Funeral Service and was held in high esteem by colleagues for his long standing service to the Institute . |
| 18 | He was one of the pioneers in opening up archaeology to everyone , both through his books and through radio and television appearances . |
| 19 | He was one of the co-founders of the Screenwriters ' Guild in 1933 . |
| 20 | Burrows was one of the progenitors of ‘ area studies ’ in Britain . |
| 21 | It was one of the prices of survival for the Plantagenet regime , a price well worth paying at periods of crisis such as the Anglo-French clashes of 1294–1303 and 1323–5 . |
| 22 | In 1686 he was one of the stewards of the Oxford and Oxfordshire feast ; and when the university went in ceremonial procession to meet James II in 1687 , he deputized for the superior bedel of arts . |
| 23 | he laid the foundations of several wartime secret services , and was one of the originators of the Commandos . |
| 24 | Somes was well known on the Stock Exchange and at Lloyd 's , and was one of the originators of the new Lloyd 's Register of Shipping in 1834 . |
| 25 | For armchair fans back home , it was one of the highights of the Seoul Olympics ; the British men 's hockey team beating Germany in the Final to take the gold medal . |
| 26 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 27 | was one of the denizens of Bletchley . |
| 28 | After all , it was one of the aims of the quota legislation to foster an industry that could promote Britain just as American films promoted America and , with only ten British films a year grossing £100,000 at the local box office , the financiers backing British film companies began to push for expansion . |
| 29 | Again , to become a third ‘ big ’ European company was one of the aims of the |
| 30 | A blurring of the distinction between hospital and community medical care was one of the aims of the 1974 reorganization of the health service . |