Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DeFries was in the Christian Dior suite , Marc Bolan was in the Marc Bolan suite , David was in the next one , Jagger was there and all the Stones , and every night was party night . |
| 2 | Leeming was on the second floor , a police officer on guard outside his room . |
| 3 | Ken was among the first to rush to his bedside in the psychiatric ward of the Middlesex Hospital . |
| 4 | Normalair-Garrett ( NGL ) at Crewkerne was among the first companies to introduce flexible manufacturing in the UK . |
| 5 | The vital role ( which contemporaries fully appreciated ) played by such relatively small ports as Le Crotoy , at the mouth of the river Somme , in the period 1420–50 , together with the fact that the ports of Dieppe and Harfleur were among the first places to be snatched from English control in 1435 ( leaving them with Cherbourg as the only port from which they could maintain regular links with England between 1435 and 1440 , a vital period in the military history of the occupation ) , shows how important the Burgundian connection was to both main protagonists as they struggled to acquire and maintain a measure of control over the sea . |
| 6 | ‘ The first away game I went to was Northampton in the mid-Sixties when Burnley were in the First Division . |
| 7 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 8 | Many of the villages which had been on the line of march were still depressed ; Hurstpierpoint was worth a third of what it had paid in the days of the Confessor . |
| 9 | Wrexham Hospital had only that month installed one , after years of jumble sales and coffee mornings on its behalf , and Nigel was among the first patients to ( I nearly wrote ‘ benefit ’ ) be diagnosed by it . |
| 10 | Russia was in the last resort not prepared to fight and the crisis fizzled out ; no one paid any attention to the Turkish contention that Ferdinand 's title was illegal . |
| 11 | The support Peter de Montfort gave Earl Simon was of the first importance . |
| 12 | But Noble was in the last week of his life , and proved too ill to see his favourite pupil or to hear read the letter of sympathy and comfort which Edward had sent him . |
| 13 | It is vital never to grant them absolute rights over nomenclature , or you will end up with a child called Aspirin Muesli Harris as poor Tom was for the first week of his life , until it was overruled as being pagan by the Irish Catholic nurse . |
| 14 | If the routine of a nap got well established now , then it would be easier to keep it in place later on , when Faye was in the second trimester and feeling deceptively fit and healthy as women usually did in those middle months … |
| 15 | From January 1990 famous exiles were no longer stripped of their Soviet citizenship : the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich , the opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya ( who was married to Rostropovich ) and the theatre director Yury Lyubimov were among the first to return as citizens . |
| 16 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 17 | Gordon was on the first ascent of Diagonal with Birtwistle , and also climbed with Menlove Edwards . |
| 18 | The foreign ministry in St Petersburg was in the first decades of the century ludicrously overstaffed : under Alexander I it gave ostensible employment to well over 700 people ( including the poet Pushkin ) , many of whom had no real duties whatever . |
| 19 | Herbert Wilcox was among the first to realize the opportunities sound created for British filmmakers . |
| 20 | His father was on the first fire-engine to arrive and Raymond was on the second . |
| 21 | Anne Lister was for the last fourteen years of her life the owner and occupant of Shibden Hall in Halifax . |
| 22 | The Kurhotel was on the next block , a 1950s five-storey tower of glass and unpainted concrete that had once been the pride of East German architecture . |
| 23 | By 1988 Britain was for the first time selling more to the EEC than to the rest of the world ( £47 billion out of £93.5 billion at 1991 prices ) . |
| 24 | As the trio began mapping out the songs that would fill Kylie 's first album , Stock was among the first to make what was to become a familiar prediction . |
| 25 | Roger Chidlow was amongst the first group of immigrants , for he appears in a 1590 rental paying 4d rent for a cottage in Newton . |
| 26 | Richard Baxter was among the first to be arrested . |
| 27 | Mr Sargent was in the next door garden , sitting in a deck chair and reading the newspaper . |
| 28 | Although Japan was for the first time in a dominant position vis-à-vis China , the problem of disputed influence in Korea remained . |
| 29 | The Corporation of Manchester was among the first to build sewers . |
| 30 | 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 . |