Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Rosen 's attack on the lists was not with the particular choice of titles — indeed the list was so extensive that no one could possibly be against them all . |
| 2 | This made geographical sense : both valleys drain west to the River Lune and the Irish Sea and are separated from the rest of Yorkshire by the barrier of the Pennines ; nevertheless , the breaking of traditional ties was not to the liking of all the inhabitants . |
| 3 | That hoard of words was still in the biscuit tin at the back of the buffet . |
| 4 | The only gateway from the Walks was directly opposite the church , so that the Lassiters rarely walked up the village itself . |
| 5 | six months was down to the two three pounds under the weight I was when I started . |
| 6 | And the Argentine embassy used to be the London house of the 7th Duke of Richmond , one of whose great-grandsons was also among the guests : Lord Nicholas Gordon Lennox , formerly our ambassador to Spain . |
| 7 | Inevitably it did and Glasgow 's cafe bars gave an audible sigh of relief : champagne and chips was back on the menu . |
| 8 | By 1820 investment in shipping , docks and harbours was also around the million mark , and there were similar trends in bridge building . |
| 9 | The British Labour Party , after its stern admonitions at Southport , showed no signs of abandoning its decision that collaboration with Communists was out of the question . |
| 10 | The queen-dowager had her own reasons for wishing to keep her daughter-in-law close at hand — whilst accepting that her remaining in sanctuary in the circumstances was out of the question . |
| 11 | For a second she thought that the lost one was lost no more and Barbs was back on the beat , but then she saw that the women were about to share a can of something and were clearly old mates . |
| 12 | The information I had on my own troops was also of a general , somewhat amateurish nature , but I did know that , put in its simplest form , my immune system was a collection of several kinds of cells designed to attack and destroy foreign bodies . |
| 13 | First the figures , furniture retailing continues to be highly competitive so I am pleased to report that turnover for the twenty eight weeks was through to the twenty million five point five percent better than the same period in the previous year . |
| 14 | One of the head office buildings was originally on the company 's Liverpool manufacturing site but , in April 1982 , American Can moved this office to the Congleton complex because the Liverpool head office site was , by this time , no longer in the centre of the company 's operations . |
| 15 | No the li the lights was on in the tunnel . |
| 16 | In Bombay , where at least 246 people were killed and about 1,200 injured in 13 bomb blasts last Friday , police said a large amount of explosives was still in the city and as yet unlocated . |
| 17 | And although my initial work was with the individual child , I found that in a large number of cases , the parental interest was of a high order and , and the children 's willingness to involve parents in their behavioural difficulties was also of a high order , so I found myself working not just within the school , not just with the child , but in a parent-child situation . |
| 18 | By then an issue on women 's rights was already in the planning stage . |
| 19 | Secondly , engineering inspectors of AIB had been called upon to provide the engineering input to RAF boards of inquiry concerning accidents to military aircraft ever since the Branch was part of the old Air Ministry and consequently their expertise in jet aircraft investigating techniques was already at a high pitch before the first civil jet airliners entered service . |
| 20 | For instance , on cinema nights we were always assured of good seats as one of his armourers was regularly on the door collecting tickets , and he made sure we had a good view . |
| 21 | Given that the massive exchange of populations was out of the question , it was clear that the Versailles politicians could not hope to solve the problems of forming homogeneous nation-state identities in Eastern Europe . |
| 22 | The first step of the stairs was actually in the room , the protruding edge being well rounded to avoid barked shins . |
| 23 | The demand which grew up amongst Congregationalists and , to a lesser degree , Baptists was not for a radical shift in the nature of their worship but for the external embellishment of traditional worship : flowers , organs and stained glass , but not chants , Holy Tables and liturgical seasons . |
| 24 | The round table with its magazines was still in the centre , the floor had been repolished and lightened , and against this background the pretty curving staircase looked more elegant than it had ever done . |
| 25 | Her ability to achieve consensus in sensitive decisions was never at the price of individual promise or doctrinaire cost-cutting , and she was a resolute opponent of any moves to take books of quality out of the teaching of English . |
| 26 | ( iv ) A large concentration of seagulls was either on the active runway of was arriving over the airport at the time of take-off . |
| 27 | Overall , the number of postive tests was down across the region , but campaigners and the police say the figures are still not low enough . |
| 28 | Despite the well-founded fear of the Securitate , for most of the period of Communist rule in Romania , the secret police was not in the front-line of control over the population . |
| 29 | One member of a contingent of four German boy internationals was also among the leaders , Herbert Forster , adding a 78 to a nine-hole first round 38 . |
| 30 | ‘ And you think Parks was in on the Livesey case too ? ’ |