Example sentences of "was an [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The place was an open-cut at the Tilberthwaite Mines , known to the German miners as Three Kings , and the date the early 17th Century . |
| 2 | This was an anxiety about the steady increase of fertility down the social scale . |
| 3 | I asked him what it might have been ; after all , if he was an expert on the local birds then he ought to know . |
| 4 | A dedicated polymath , with a passion for the arts , Neubauer was an expert on the English visionary artists , particularly the engravings of Turner . |
| 5 | Kingsley adjusted his dogcollar meaningfully and replied that he was an expert on the English language who could speak authoritatively not only on the matter of ‘ bollocks ’ but also on ‘ shit ’ or ‘ fuck ’ if required . |
| 6 | A second possibility was an origin in the Middle Saxon period in the first half of the eighth century AD : evidence for this occupation comes from both documentary sources and finds from the site . |
| 7 | He was an exception among the British dancers in wanting to find our as much as he could about American ballet teachers . |
| 8 | This was an expression of the real soul of this city . ’ |
| 9 | A stout woman entered , bearing a candelabrum and a tray , and on her plump face , under the nightcap that concealed the rags curling her hair , was an expression of the gravest displeasure . |
| 10 | Baghdad 's third response , announced on 29 january by the Iraqi High Command , was an attack on the small Saudi oil centre of Khafji . |
| 11 | ‘ It was an attack on the whole community — on sick children and their parents , on old people whose much-needed operations will have to be delayed , on the medical staff who devotedly care for them , and on the security forces who will continue to defend the community and to bring terrorists to justice . ’ |
| 12 | It was an attack on the whole community — on sick children and their parents , on old people whose much-needed operations will have to be delayed , on the medical staff who devotedly care for them , and on the security forces who will continue to defend the community and bring terrorists to justice . |
| 13 | Provoked by a sermon issued in January 1793 entitled The Wisdom and Goodness of God in having made both Rich and Poor , which was an attack on the French Revolution by Richard Watson , Bishop of Llandaff , Wordsworth countered with A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff on the Extraordinary Avowal of his Political Principles … by A Republican . |
| 14 | Bob once sang ‘ If you are a big tree , we are a small axe ’ , and besides the revolution it demanded , it was an attack on the big three record companies in Jamaica : Dynamic , Federal and Studio One . |
| 15 | The other paper , ‘ by a practical man ’ , was an attack on the Gothic Revival . |
| 16 | Latterly , however , the Khomeini regime began to describe the USSR as the ‘ greater Satan ’ ; cultural exchanges were ended , the size of the Soviet mission was restricted , Soviet journalists were refused entry visas , and in March 1988 there was an attack upon the Soviet embassy in Tehran . |
| 17 | The triple alliance which I originally sought to conclude after the peace of Frankfurt and about which I had already sounded Vienna and St. Petersburg in September 1870 , was an alliance of the three Emperors with the further idea of bringing into it monarchical Italy . |
| 18 | It was an act of the utmost bravery and disregard for personal safety . |
| 19 | Nearby , almost missed , was an ass with the bearded head of a man . |
| 20 | This , I feel , was an insult to the governing body . |
| 21 | Raquel Zelaya , a neo-liberal economist , was an advisor to the previous government . |
| 22 | He was an advisor to the Scottish Office Industry Department and to several regional councils on transportation issues . |
| 23 | Furber was an overseer of the poor in the parish of St Mary Abbots , Kensington , in 1718 , and a churchwarden in 1725–6 and 1736–7 . |
| 24 | There was an invitation for the whole family . |
| 25 | To all intents and purposes he was an attache with the Kenyan delegation at the United Nations and the only person outside UNACO who knew the truth was his wife , and even she had only been briefed in the vaguest possible terms . |
| 26 | Wang Xizhe , a factory worker from Guangzhou , was an activist in the pro-democracy movement in China who helped to write and put up a 100-metre newspaper wall in his city in 1974 which attracted worldwide interest . |
| 27 | Moreover , the problem was not confined to one city ( London ) , it was an issue for the whole country : Belfast , Clydeside , Merseyside and a range of industrial and port areas , and city centres as at Sheffield , Coventry , Plymouth , Hull , Bristol and certain cathedral cities . |
| 28 | Between 1971 and 1979 there was an increase in the economic activity of women aged between 55 and 59 , from 51% to 54% . |
| 29 | One of the more controversial aspects of the budget , and one which contributed to the growing public concern about the integrity of the political system , was an increase in the so-called " MPs ' slush fund " ( more correctly the National Development Fund ) to K100,000 annually for each member . |
| 30 | There was an increase in the urban programme but on nothing like the scale he wanted . |