Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Claire got involved in the action as national coach Matt Doyle was of the opinion that she was entitled to match play . |
| 2 | I am not saying that that had anything to do with the fact that Brigadier Crawley was in the same regiment as Lieutenant-Colonel Inkin , who is the chairman of the Cardiff Bay development corporation . |
| 3 | While considering help and resources for Church of England communities , mention must be made of Stanbrook , a Roman Catholic abbey whose Dame Laurentia McLachlan and Dame Hildelith Cumming were amongst the pioneers of the modern use of plainchant . |
| 4 | Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey were among the first to import them into England , and the painter Hans Holbein has since had a particular type of design named after him because of the number of times it featured in his portraits of Henry and the English Court , Similarly , the Flemish painter Hans Memlinc provides ample pictorial evidence of the passion for oriental rugs in the Netherlands and the Northern Europe . |
| 5 | One of the main initial bases of the White armies under General Kornilov was on the lower Don river with Kaledin , Ataman of the Don Cossacks . |
| 6 | On the icy roads and tracks of sweden the prodrive rally team from Banbury were flying at the weekend … at the end of day one Colin McRae was in the lead … on day two he dropped back … on day three broke a wheel on a boulder but came in third just 28 seconds behind the winner … |
| 7 | Within a few minutes Elisa was on the settee in the sitting room where , at last , she regained consciousness . |
| 8 | BARBARA and NEIL TAYLOR were among the founders of the Shared Earth Trust and now work for the Trust as its project co- ordinators at the Denmark Farm Conservation Centre . |
| 9 | They were to the 1980s what F Scott Fitzgerald was to the roaring twenties . |
| 10 | But Miss Foley was at the door . |
| 11 | As yet it has nothing to offer ICL users who want to retain their VMS look and feels , but BBC president , David Pikcilingis , and director of marketing , Edward Gaudet were in the UK last week to try and convince ICL there is a market for VMS emulation software on the company 's Unix-based hardware — and to lend BBC some DRS machines to port to . |
| 12 | Within a few years Dunkirk Mills was under the control , although not in the complete ownership of Peter Playne , of a long-established clothier family of Flemish descent . |
| 13 | Richard Barnett was at the finishing line . |
| 14 | Andy Payton was in the starting line-up with Stuart Ripley on the substitutes ' bench . |
| 15 | Andy Payton was in the starting line-up with Stuart Ripley on the bench . |
| 16 | MP Simon Burns and Chelmsford Mayor Edgar Roberts were among the dignitaries who attended Under Pressure 's official opening yesterday afternoon . |
| 17 | Somehow she 'd been expecting resistance , something she had frequently encountered with Graham Rowell whenever she had attempted anything new , and it came as a shock to find that she and David Markham were on the same wavelength . |
| 18 | According to the match programme Maradona was on the pitch , wearing the No.10 shirt . |
| 19 | However , Ronnie Koeman was in the Holland team as captain in spite of Johan Cruyff , his manager at Barcelona , ordering him to have a week 's rest . |
| 20 | President Ieremia Tabai was amongst the 39 successful candidates in the general election for Kiribati 's House of Assembly ( Maneaba ) . |
| 21 | Champney Road was on the east side of Plumford . |
| 22 | Portugal Place was to the supply of horse shit what Wimbledon ‘ insiders ’ are to Centre Court tickets on final days . |
| 23 | committee meeting was held on the sixth of July at two P M , the President Mrs was in the chair attendance as per register . |
| 24 | Eleanor Shergold was at the wheel with Snappy in the back . |
| 25 | PCs Bill Cotton and Ken McDonnell were on the scene just minutes after a woman hurled the toddler into the river . |
| 26 | Edward Carrington was in the flat with Erica when Chamberlain broadcast his farewell . |
| 27 | 2.45 Lord Guest thought that the dependency of £4,000 awarded by Lyell J was on the high side , but could be justified when allowing for possible future increases in earnings and for the effects of inflation . |
| 28 | As has been shown above , however , Fahreddin Acemi was of the period of Murad II and Mehmed II , not of Murad I ; and there is no record that he was ever kadi of Bursa . |
| 29 | ‘ I saw Gabriel on the cover of a magazine , and David Mellor was on the cover of something else and I thought , who 's looking funkier ? |
| 30 | But since gaps on the bench happen rarely , and since this will be the first chance a Democratic president has had to choose a justice since Lyndon Johnson was in the White House , the usual debate about likely replacements is under way . |