Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 2 | Alternatively , the killer was someone from the house who had secured the door to ensure privacy , but opened it again after his crime to confirm the impression that an outsider was involved . |
| 3 | If we had n't heard so much about him from Robert , we 'd find it impossible to imagine that this bloke was anything but the most upright of citizens . ’ |
| 4 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
| 5 | Yet after the success in India , it appeared that the job was his for the foreseeable future — only for the news to break at the beginning of the 1977 season that , when in Australia for the Centenary Test , he had used his position to recruit players to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket . |
| 6 | Er members will recall that the potential savings that might from the original was something in the order of eight to nine hundred thousand pounds and of course the majority of those er present the saving will be policy will be consideration . |
| 7 | Ignoring his dig , she decided that if the inside was anything like the outside she could bear to wait . |
| 8 | The adjustment factor was one for the under 65 group and three for the over 65 group . |
| 9 | Contemporary art was anything but the strong point of the Salon , with Paris dealers in particular showing a large number of deja vu works and recording few sales . |
| 10 | In time , the ever-increasing number of visitors had opened up an entirely new source of income for the Heymouthians , and instead of having to depend on fishing as their primary source of income , they found the tourist trade was theirs for the developing . |
| 11 | Richter 's story was unearthed by Mario Mariscotti who wrote a book in Spanish called The Secret of Huemmel Island in which he tells how Argentina , during the Peronist regime , had mistakenly thought that fusion was its for the asking . |
| 12 | The slave was nothing in the eyes of the law . |
| 13 | And that voice was nothing like the voice he had heard on the tape of church music . |
| 14 | What size was she at the time of change ? |
| 15 | On the days he was going to see her , he woke up feeling that anything was possible , that the world was his for the asking . |
| 16 | and he could n't do it and the worse thing was everybody in the pool had gone go on |
| 17 | St Paul understood the distinctive heart of Christianity to lie in the historic facts of the gospel ; the Jesus of history was one with the Christ of his faith , who was also the eternal wisdom of God in creation . |
| 18 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 19 | So , er , what the description was there by the way , it 's not meant to be a description of the person . |
| 20 | By then , at the end of the century , the Secretary 's power was his for the taking . |