Example sentences of "was a [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | María Luisa Beltranena was a magistrate on the supreme electoral board and a university vice-rector . |
| 2 | Indeed New England was a battleground in the eighteenth century between Puritanism and Enlightenment philosophy . |
| 3 | There was a crack in the deep , old-fashioned wash-basin and a long , red hair was fixed in the crack and floated out in the water as the basin filled . |
| 4 | ‘ My husband was a cousin of the young lady to whom the son of the house was engaged . |
| 5 | At times , it looks like little more than nepotism : The Prince of Wales ' last private secretary , Edward Adeane had been a page-of-honour to the Queen in his teens ; his father , Lord Adeane , had been the Queen 's private secretary for nearly twenty years , and his great-grandfather , Lord Stamfordham had been private secretary to George V. George VI 's private secretary , Sir Alan Lascelles , was a cousin of the sixth Lord Harewood , husband of Princess Mary . |
| 6 | It was a portrait of the white bull terrier , executed with incredible precision . |
| 7 | Talk of a bypass through Hailing because of the volume of traffic recalls memories of when I was a boy in the late 20 's and early 30's . |
| 8 | At a time when even the British Medical Journal was in opposition , Professor Fletcher was a champion of the ground-breaking BBC TV series ‘ Your life in their hands ’ which included footage of operations . |
| 9 | Dexter suspected Parkin 's indecision was a mixture of the two . |
| 10 | Their attire was a mixture of the sombre and seaside wear . |
| 11 | There was a mixture of the formal and the informal about it ; the Keeper of Zoology in the 1810s was wont from time to time to leap over the stuffed animals . |
| 12 | and he said erm oh he said it was a digit round the wrong way . |
| 13 | There was a door at the other end of the tunnel . |
| 14 | Just as the Biesbosch on the Rhine delta was a centre for the Dutch underground opposition to Hitler , so the English wetlands have a long history as centres of resistance . |
| 15 | Before that the village 's only successful days had occurred back in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when it was a centre of the Basque whaling trade . |
| 16 | Financial Secretary Hamish Macleod denied the move was a snub to the Chinese government in Peking which is already enraged by Governor Chris Patten 's plans for democratic reform . |
| 17 | The presbytery of Hamilton 's proposed solution was a repeal of the nineteen sixty three act and a reversion to the nineteen thirty three act which required from parents only a profession of faith . |
| 18 | Donovan , the folk guru who was a git in the Sixties with grooves such as ‘ Goo Goo Barabajagal ’ and ‘ Mellow Yellow ’ , has come back into vogue . |
| 19 | There was a music-stand on the far side , by the wall . |
| 20 | There was a trend for the multi-national corporations to set up their own courses on a European rather than purely British basis … |
| 21 | William the Marshal was a knight-errant in the first age of chivalry , a great tournament man when tournaments were beginning to be civilized . |
| 22 | One of the first Marxist writers on the problem of the Italian south was a founder of the Communist party of Italy , Antonio Gramsci . |
| 23 | And by William Lovett , remember : one of that articulate elite which attended the debates at the Rotunda ; one who , knowing full well how partial , minimal and divisive the Whigs ' proposals were , was compelled by the polarisation of opinion they induced to a course of action contributing much to the great flood of support for them ; one who was a founder of the Chartist Movement formed in the wake of the Reform Act . |
| 24 | In 1912 he was a founder of the Independent Labour Party of Ireland , forerunner of the Irish Labour Party , and proposed in the Irish Worker a political programme which included proportional representation and women 's suffrage . |
| 25 | In the country it was the custom for the estate workers or tenants to act as both coffin- and pall-bearers , this was a necessity as the local builder often doubled up as undertaker and would not have had so many men at his command as the full-time town undertaker . |
| 26 | The Conservative strategy which emerged after the Great War , tentatively in the coalition years but powerfully under Baldwin , was a blend of the basic Salisbury recipe with added ‘ Manchester North-West ’ . |
| 27 | do we have to conclude from if it was a play about the Cold War , what is the conclusion of it ? |
| 28 | The book 's chief interest lies in the fact that Caroline Capel was a sister of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey and that she and her family , for financial reasons , were living in Brussels at the time of Waterloo . |
| 29 | It was a lady at the other end . |
| 30 | This was a warning to the adventurous Arab in the desert , if you did force-land and you suddenly found you were his prisoner , and in several dialects of Arabic . |