Example sentences of "was a [noun] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An accident when he was a boy resulted in the loss of his right hand , and throughout his adult life he wore a hook , hence the reference in The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple by Charles Lamb [ q.v . ] : |
| 2 | There was a door set into the wall behind the stone . |
| 3 | This was a position taken by the House of Lords in Lambert v Lewis [ 1982 ] AC 225 . |
| 4 | Only there was a lady lived at the manor , and she said — come up and see my grandmother and if she 'd look after us , she 'd keep us in clothes and food . |
| 5 | No there was a lady came round the other day , you know asking for erm volunteers to erm tape , you know , recording conversations between people and yourselves and the family , you know ? |
| 6 | There was a ballad composed on the event . |
| 7 | Among the fund raising activities organised was a raffle held by the PR department . |
| 8 | There too the only debt remaining outstanding from a business which had otherwise ceased more than a year before was a debt owed to the Inland Revenue . |
| 9 | It was a cavity made by the tumbling together of several large boulders , and roofed by the encroaching undergrowth . |
| 10 | Company No 00330 of 1991 ex p Holden [ 1991 ] BCC 241 , the service of a transfer notice was a requirement imposed by the company 's board under the Articles of Association . |
| 11 | My photographic equipment was a bit limited by the fact that as a leader I was required to carry a heavy hunting rifle all the time we were ashore , just in case we met with a polar bear in a nasty mood . |
| 12 | At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end . |
| 13 | It was really good to see him in London last month ; I think he was a bit mystified by the church we went to , but it was good of him to come with me ! |
| 14 | But he was a bit flummoxed at the reality of Nuadu , because nobody had ever told him how to address a bastard of the Ireland 's Royal House . |
| 15 | The rarity of tools is particularly emphasised by the numbers of woodworking tools found in both settlements and cemeteries ; whilst carpentry was a skill demonstrated in the construction of houses and fine items like cups of stave construction , woodworking tools are extremely rare . |
| 16 | There was a coach dragged off the line , but it did n't overturn , apparently , till everyone had been got out . |
| 17 | The tax was a poll-tax imposed by the Romans in 6 AD . |
| 18 | Imagining his Sara ‘ all oppressed with gloom ’ , Coleridge 's spontaneous reply was a poem set in the descriptive frame of an evening visit to Shurton Bars , the coastal area lying beyond a rich tract of open fields to the north of Shurton Court . |
| 19 | This was a tactic borrowed from the NCOAP . |
| 20 | In the centre of the room on a large mahogany table was a folder secured with the red wax seal of the United States government . |
| 21 | on the part of the public that this was a facility provided by the parish council , it 's not just a sports club facility as will develop over the years , which is what we intended , but it does n't belong to those clubs , facility was originally provided by us . |
| 22 | Erm , and that 's about it really , erm , she lives in at the minute , and this was a gentleman called in the sky . |
| 23 | While it appears beyond dispute that ‘ a massive immigration and a strong economic upsurge ( meant that ) all sections of the economy profited from this growth ’ , Paris nevertheless remained during the whole of the period an area in which ‘ hand industry ’ predominated ; it was a capital associated with the production of articles of high fashion and luxury goods rather than a centre of heavy industry . |
| 24 | It was a mistake made in the context of over-enthusiasm for a solution to what is a nasty condition for a number of people , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Drinking the Hottest Cup of Tea was a competition reserved for the women . |
| 26 | Paradise was a word used for the Garden of Eden . |
| 27 | Opinion surveys suggested , however , that a majority of US citizens felt that reverse discrimination , even on the basis of making up for past wrongs , was unfair , and was a concept associated with the Democrats rather than the Republicans . |
| 28 | In fact , the hijack was a plot hatched between the two presenters to fox listeners , some of whom phoned to find out what was going on . |
| 29 | Erm , he did have the right to that trial for erm what the previous offence before taking conveyance which was a clock taken without the owner 's consent and previous offence before that taking but in order to reduce costs right mainly because they also want at the same time to remove the right for theft ah and they failed . |
| 30 | There was a hawk pinned to the silken air above the churchyard . |