Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gould was with the one man who could introduce him most convincingly to the alliances between geography and the native flora and fauna of the continent . |
| 2 | President Ieremia Tabai was amongst the 39 successful candidates in the general election for Kiribati 's House of Assembly ( Maneaba ) . |
| 3 | Day was on the twenty fifth of December ! |
| 4 | As with ‘ power corrupting ’ , Tolkien was during the 1930s and 1940s reacting quite evidently to the issues of his time . |
| 5 | The great era of station-building in Asia , Australasia , and Africa was between the 1860s and the 1920s , with the boom years from 1890 to 1914 . |
| 6 | Fellow international Mike Hall believes that Adrian will be as influential for Cardiff as Gareth Davies was in the 1980s . |
| 7 | At the end of the last series , presenter Gordon Burns invited anyone who was interested in taking part to write in and ask for a place — and Paul was among the 8,000 who applied . |
| 8 | Shrimpton was in the mid-forties , overweight , and slightly larger than life , a sociable type . |
| 9 | The only time that Gooch performed well for Gower was in the 1985 Ashes series , when England won 3–1 and David had his finest hour , but on the two occasions when Gooch 's help was most desperately needed — against West Indies in 1985–86 and Australia in 1989 — Gooch 's total contribution was 459 runs at 24.16 . |
| 10 | ALMOST unnoticed , as befits someone who 's about five foot nothing , cap in hand comedian Norman Wisdom was among the 30,000 who welcomed back Kevin Keegan . |