Example sentences of "[adj] was [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Brora the date 1895 was on the station building . |
| 2 | This was about the year 1200 ( the charter is undated ) , but there is the fishpond today . |
| 3 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ This was about the time The Beatles were just starting and they were considered to have long hair , but if you look at the pictures of them in those days , they had almost crew-cuts compared to David 's which was honestly long , bright yellow , bleached blonde from a bottle . |
| 4 | information about a particular piece , so , Simon and I sort of , we were talking kind of fairly casually about that , but erm , what we agreed to do is , this was about the time when we first got the equipment I think and it , it occurred to me that you , and I 've checked this now , that you can actually plug a cassette , you know , a Walkman type of player into either the microphone for the |
| 5 | The council insisted on erecting another — this was about the time I arrived — and it got delivered in handy , fit-together sections . |
| 6 | He was the first big money(950,000) signning by Allan Clark , personally I think Clark just signed him because everybody else was spending absurd amounts money on crap , this was about the time malcolm allison was spending 1 to 2 million quid every other week on unknown bits of shit , so clarke thought lets join in . |
| 7 | And this was at the back of the head , only the central seam contaminated , and that only meagrely . |
| 8 | ‘ This was at the church just down the road from here ? ’ |
| 9 | Health authority staff , not unreasonably , felt that this was at the cost of forgoing routine casework support for a wide range of people ( horizontal efficiency ) and from their point of view , therefore , the developmental role of the CMHTs represented an unacceptable opportunity cost . |
| 10 | Turning to Europe , Mr Ridley said that the Government was pressing other EC countries to reduce their industrial subsidies , for this was at the heart of a genuine single market after 1992 . |
| 11 | It did launch a general economic survey in 1953 , but this was at the request of the Special Council of Ministers , itself responding to national government worries about a slump in demand . |
| 12 | This was at the language school in Leningrad , with all the lessons in English . |
| 13 | This was at the time the government introduced conscription , when the travelling medical boards had instructions to discharge unfit men , to take the place of those called up . |
| 14 | Coincidentally this was at the height of the News International affair , which undoubtedly provided a severe test for the Code and its guidelines . |
| 15 | ‘ This was at the Palace ? ’ |
| 16 | This was at the limit of the effective range of canister but he could afford to wait no longer ; his men were so weak , their movements so sluggish that they would need every extra second if they were to re-load and fire another charge before the enemy reached the ramparts . |
| 17 | Keynes thought this was worth the whole of the rest of the White Paper put together . |
| 18 | this was during the school holidays was it ? |
| 19 | This was during the war |
| 20 | This was outside the framework of the Community institutions established by the Rome Treaty , but it was hoped that it could bring about a common European attitude to international problems . |
| 21 | This was towards the end of June 1973 . |
| 22 | This was towards the end of the filming , by which time most of the chimps recognised Mike , and allowed him to approach them . |
| 23 | He makes explicit what is perhaps implicit in Taskopruzade , namely that Molla Yegan was from the province of Aydin , and adds to the sentence about his becoming muderris at certain medreses in Bursa the fact that this was through the agency of Molla Fenari . |
| 24 | This was despite the inclusion above the line of the £15.9 million profit on the sale of a stake in First Leisure Corporation and a £13.3 million write-down of the investment in BSkyB . |
| 25 | This was despite the condition being known for more than 2,000 years , says a British Medical Journal report . |
| 26 | This was despite the fact that the reform of Irish catholicism in the nineteenth century sprang mainly from urban areas . |
| 27 | This was despite the fact that she too is now branching into her own recording career . |
| 28 | This was despite the fact that one member of the Court of Appeal , Sir Denys Buckley , thought the reasons for the order to be ‘ meagre ’ . |
| 29 | This was despite the fact that I had already visited the Algerian Embassy to no effect after writing thirteen times . |
| 30 | This was despite the fact that probably the most influential piece of evidence they received during the three years they sat , the Church of England Moral Welfare Council 's ( CEMWC ) updated report , Sexual Offenders and Social Punishment , recommended a universal age of consent of 17 . |