Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't like a prison cell , it-was like a maid 's room , Eve told herself firmly . |
| 2 | The greatest areas of concern for tax-payers were about the Revenue 's staff 's apparent lack of authority to deal with certain problems , difficulty in getting through to the right person on the telephone , and about the time it took to resolve problems and answer queries . |
| 3 | His chest , his entire frame , were like a fire-walker 's bed of coals . |
| 4 | The tallest of the men looked down at Ruth ; his hair was bright silver , and his gold eyes were like an eagle 's . |
| 5 | The judge in instructing the jury sought to direct its attention to certain factors which might have a bearing on whether or not the defendant 's actions were against the complainant 's will . |
| 6 | Erm erm so y you were , you were with the tenants ' erm association , eighty two eighty three ? |
| 7 | ‘ Of course I do , ’ he replied , relaxing and stretching his long legs out in front of him , so that they were within a hair 's breadth of brushing against hers . |
| 8 | Molly and Paul knew all the true joys that were within an hour 's walking time of Thrush Green . |
| 9 | It decided that further discussion was needed on what measures were within the Assembly 's competence under the federal Constitution . |
| 10 | Cognito , the UK two-way paging service re-born after a management buyout last year , has got coverage and subscriber numbers back to around the level they were before the service 's first incarnation folded . |
| 11 | It was immediately apparent they were in a lady 's room . |
| 12 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 13 | The Jews , on the other hand , were in the guidebook 's opinion ‘ the most interesting people in the land … |
| 14 | Nevertheless , when asked about the way the societies sold insurance , 49 per cent of customers said they trusted their society to sell them only those products and services which were in the customers ' best interests . |
| 15 | Mr Govind said the finance minister had announced that 100% equity would be allowed on some developments if they utilised advanced technology and were in the country 's interest . |
| 16 | The Chancellor appeared to be unmoved by the appeals from some of his party faithful , preferring to claim that his actions were in the country 's long term interest . |
| 17 | In 1920 , the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified , having reached the necessary three-quarters support among the State Legislatures : as figure 5.4 shows , however , all of the recalcitrant Legislatures were in the country 's southeast , with only Tennessee in the area of the Confederacy voting for the Amendment . |
| 18 | It would be a different tale if they were in the king 's own shoes , for he 's a marcher lord himself by reason of his Bohun marriage , and when Wales is in question he thinks like a marcher lord , and there 's an end of it . |
| 19 | They were in the Mollands ' house — not the modern Rectory at Champney Crucis but the Vicarage at Plumford ; old Hubert was still Senior Assistant Curate at St Clement 's . |
| 20 | Of the fathers of the boarders in these schools , 92 per cent were in the Registrar-General 's Class I or II , and 52 per cent had been to Public Schools themselves . |
| 21 | These individual differences , rather than government interventions ( or the lack thereof ) , were in the author 's view the real causes of the changing face of French science . |
| 22 | But if they were in the author 's voice , then the interpolation of Stefek 's quoted description would be glaringly inappropriate . |
| 23 | When the crowds had left after the second home match , Chapman met the helpers in the stand and asked them to take him on trust , asserting that the changes were in the club 's interest . |
| 24 | Mr Yeltsin telephoned Mr Gorbachev and 90 minutes later Mr Yavlinsky and Mr Primakov were in the president 's office . |
| 25 | This was Little Gidding , and , as she wrote , ‘ I shall never forget the experience of hearing the words new-minted as it were from the poet 's own lips ’ . |
| 26 | One might believe that such matters were outside the review 's purview . |
| 27 | If , if er if you were on a case er well if you could get out for a , for an hour in the afternoon for a walk , but that was about all . |
| 28 | And if they did n't get up when the Night Sister switched the lights on , they were on the Matron 's mat , and they lost that hour . |
| 29 | Tristan Garel-Jones and Alan Howarth were on the Chairman 's staff at Central Office . |
| 30 | During July we were on the Women 's Heart tour — 28 gigs in 30 nights , packed houses all the way . |