Example sentences of "[noun] was [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Napoleon was at this time trying to push the Russians into war with Turkey , and Czartoryski , aware of this , had no wish to see Russia involved on Serbia 's side in a conflict with the sultan . |
| 2 | The wheel was in commercial use until 1926 , and since the 19605 has been in operation as a tourist attraction , maintained by the Manx Government . |
| 3 | The wheel was in active service from 1960 , after a long journey by train from Argyll to Dorset . |
| 4 | But both Woodruffe and Hodson denied strongly that the Association was in any sense a secret society , that it sought to discipline members in breach of rules , to dictate terms to shipowners or to enforce a closed shop . |
| 5 | My thinking was in some way parallel to that of the generative semantics school , but at the same time I developed my own ideas independently of them . |
| 6 | He said it demanded an immediate custodial sentence , but as Spencer was of previous good character and had already spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence , he made the community service order . |
| 7 | The door in the back end of the tractor-shed was off this . |
| 8 | And we have heard that Del Curb was on that planet , along with numerous evil people who seek the phetam Now all the evil ones seem to be on Uulaa , pursuing Del Curb , As are we . ’ |
| 9 | But the the the railway stock was in such a bad state , that that 's when people started the real activists of the Labour movement really started talking about confiscation instead of compensation . |
| 10 | Indeed , not only was there a tremendous rapport between the members of the company , there was also a recognizable repartee between them , led by Ken , which was so fast that unless he actually knew the language , a stranger was in foreign territory . |
| 11 | In a memo ( signature illegible ) to the assistant chief of naval staff dated two months after the sinking of the Bismarck , the writer said that it had ‘ unofficially ’ come to his notice that an Ensign Smith of the U S Navy was in the Catalina aircraft that had resighted the Bismarck , then en route to Brest , two days after British naval forces had lost contact with her ; and that an Ensign Rinehart was in another searching Catalina . |
| 12 | Canadian international Forrest , 24 , faces a three-match ban after referee Ron Groves confirmed the red card was for serious foul play . |
| 13 | So in Banbury and in Newport local Unionists were assured that the deal was for one election only . |
| 14 | Dixie says the deal was for three . |
| 15 | Llanthony Warehouse was for many years a showroom and store for Western Trading Co . |
| 16 | Another meeting place in the Cheviots was at Windy Gyle , a bleak height difficult to reach even today unless one is a committed long-distance walker along the Pennine Way . |
| 17 | Rowse was at that time in London , or I might ( I said ) have asked him to tea and taken some soundings . |
| 18 | The morale of the air force was at first excellent , this being achieved through provision of better rations and other privileges . |
| 19 | In the confusion following Belgium 's partial withdrawal from its colony , the UN force was at first given the foolish order not to shoot unless attacked . |
| 20 | Across the Atlantic the riots had continued , and , even as the Red Army moved into Prague , Mayor Daley 's police force was in pitched battle with demonstrators outside the Democratic Party 's convention . |
| 21 | The outer ring was of blue iris , slightly above those in tiers were huge white carnations amongst scattered gypsophilus . |
| 22 | The spectacle of the café-concert was above all the home of disorder , and particularly of the disruption of the orderly bourgeois habitus . |
| 23 | Gateshead finished fourth in the Northern 12-stage Championships at Sunderland and Walker was in scintillating form at Silksworth , setting a course record . |
| 24 | Much of what the novelist wanted to say lay outside the murderer 's ken , and , as we shall see , Raskolnikov 's consciousness was in other , subtler ways too confining . |
| 25 | The interior decoration and furnishing of the King 's bedroom was of weathered sycamore , with brass-finished copper metalwork , and copper and silver electric light fittings . |
| 26 | Filmer 's bedroom was in that car . |
| 27 | They were that Filmer 's bedroom was in that car . |
| 28 | This recommendation was in apparent contradiction to an interview given by Saddam Hussein broadcast on French television on July 9 , in which he stated that he hoped that the first free and democratic presidential elections in the country 's history would take place later in the year and that he would stand for re-election alongside other candidates . |
| 29 | His first parliamentary contest was in 1966 when he unsuccessfully fought South Buckinghamshire . |
| 30 | In Britain the legal speed limit was 12 mph but since they broke down frequently speed was of little consequence . |