Example sentences of "was the [noun sg] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appellant was the treasurer of a sports and social club ; he stole £4,567 from the club . |
| 2 | He was of Italian stock , as was the proprietor of a blues recording studio I had met in the Deep South of America . |
| 3 | She was the headmistress of a girls ' school . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ It is ludicrous that a man who was the centre of a police investigation should be allowed to sit in judgment against honest men who were following their conscience . ’ |
| 5 | Keeper David Coles was once with Newport , while barely 12 months ago free transfer midfielder Wayne Dobbins was the subject of a Pounds 25,000 move from West Brom to Torquay . |
| 6 | The industry commissioner , Martin Bangemann , told reporters yesterday that it was still unclear what line Mr Clinton would take on Airbus , which was the subject of an EC-US subsidy reduction deal last year after a long-running dispute . |
| 7 | There was neither a window nor a door open : customers and staff sweated visibly and there was the smell of a sports changing-room . |
| 8 | This was the murder of a police officer , one of their own , no one would step aside . |
| 9 | Ms J.V. Salmon , of Knotty Ash , reckons Woolfall Heath Estate , Huyton , was the site of a prisoners of war or aliens ' camp which , she thinks , was the only one in Liverpool . |
| 10 | The Castle Eden Walkway Country Park was the setting for a woodcrafts weekend . |
| 11 | Hillsborough was the result of a police decision to open an exit gate to allow mass entry onto an already crowded terrace . |