Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum What about story was a bit like that . |
| 2 | The outcome of these parallel strands of support for municipalization was a growth , especially from the early 1890s , of municipal ownership of public utilities such as gas and water supplies and public transport , and municipal provision of such services as libraries , museums , baths , wash-houses and improved street lighting and refuse disposal . |
| 3 | He had once said that he did n't know whether his passion for water-power was a result of meanness or had some deeper Freudian significance . |
| 4 | That stuff about exercise was a bit of a fibette , I admit — I 'm sure I 'd collapse from jogger 's nipple climbing into my Nikes . |
| 5 | The February play was A Thriller of the Year , with an all-female cast our original choice of play was A Death Trap we could n't cast it because of a lack of men auditioning . |
| 6 | Mysterious indigo with its connotations of protection was a substance and colour full of symbolism in the distant places of Arabia . |
| 7 | And to think , ’ I say , brushing mud from a faraway marsh off my boots , ‘ that I knew you when your idea of power-dressing was a tool-belt round your hips . ’ |
| 8 | er they also brought out some a good range of lighting fittings er , which you still see about again used well I , I remember putting one , you saying about putting lights at different levels , erm a staircase which was in a new house which was architect design and built and erm , the staircase was er more or less centrally in the house rather than be stuck against one wall and so it had a well and down the centre of the well we strung one of these lights with er five different glasses suspended on black flex five black flexes and erm these were shades made of heavy glass er the glass was n't painted it was coloured all the way through , er and erm they were called er Chelsea , Chelsea glasswork and erm these each had a lamp inside them well er about three inch diameter cylinders actually about eight inches long and they were hung at different heights er so that the lip behind the staircase and also of course there 's a staircase being where it was , it was in the centre of er , a , quite a large hallway for modern stand for modern standards and erm it of course was a feature of the hall as well . |
| 9 | ( In the days of Bertrand de Born , Aquitaine of course was a province of the English crown ; Eleanor of Aquitaine , the princess whose marriage to an English King brought this about , is one of the femmes fatales of the Cantos ; and Richard Coeur de Lion , trying to make good his claim to all this part of France , was killed at Chalus — a place in this area to which the Cantos refer repeatedly in connection with the King 's death . ) |
| 10 | Medieval law was indeed profoundly conservative , and most medieval vassals took it for granted that the right of resistance was a law which could not be abrogated . |
| 11 | This appearance of naïvety was a mask ; it was his revenge on lesser people than himself . |
| 12 | By May 1341 all he had got out of parliament was a resolution to collect the rest of the ninth and an offer of an extra 10,000 sacks of wool ; no new money was granted . |
| 13 | It is relevant to note that the river at the point of crossing was a yard deep and three yards wide . |
| 14 | Drinking the Hottest Cup of Tea was a competition reserved for the women . |
| 15 | Neither of the lecturers concerned was willing to agree to a change at this late date ; when one of them finally gave in , the alternative proposed by the unpopular head of department was a slot already occupied by one of Andrew 's lectures . |
| 16 | Ulster Unionist MP William Ross told a meeting of Young Unionists in Belfast that the ‘ horrifying ’ level of violence was a consequence of the Government 's ‘ appeasement policy ’ . |
| 17 | After reasserting that the question of lateness was a question of fact for the tribunal , May LJ gives a lists of circumstances which the IT may wish to consider |
| 18 | Beyond the great sweep of blue trouser and the distant clouds of sweater was a beard . |
| 19 | The sociology of religion was a subject of primary concern for the ‘ founding fathers ’ of sociology — most notably for Max Weber and Emile Durkheim . |
| 20 | This argument is reinforced by the decision in Greensmith where the analyst had not tested to discover whether a specimen of cocaine was a salt ( para. 4 ) or a stereoisomeric form ( para. 2 ) . |
| 21 | I find that the refusal she then gave to the administration of blood was a refusal which took no account of the likely change in her circumstances . |
| 22 | Gandhi 's choice of tactic was a master stroke . |
| 23 | A follow-up survey in 1978 indicated that the cause of migration was a lack of jobs which matched young people 's work and career aspirations . |
| 24 | If the subject-matter of management was a set of imperishable truths , the answer would be no . |
| 25 | Sometimes the accusation of witchcraft was a form of punishment for women who were too vocal about their disillusionment with men … |
| 26 | A corollary of preformationism was a belief in the immutability of species . |
| 27 | This must have been a joke , as he laughed , or perhaps any mention of marriage was a joke to Gordon , who walked past Nenna and settled himself between them in a small chair , actually a nursing chair , surviving from some earlier larger family home and much too low for him , so that he had to try crossing his legs in several positions . |
| 28 | His insurers denied the twist of fate was a collision and had refused to pay medical costs . |
| 29 | He believed on this sad day that feeling of reconciliation was a reason for hope . |
| 30 | In this instance the issue of accountability was a principal and explicit motivation , and the need for a curriculum review was placed in the context of the need to provide information for the headteacher , the school governors , ‘ feeder ’ schools , and the LEA . |