Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also knew that some of her preferences were base in the extreme , and that her affection for Peter de Salis sprang at the first most ignobly from his delightful name . |
| 2 | … and were part of the hierarchic domesticity which society , __ bourgeoisie in particular , acted upon . |
| 3 | A combination of holiday habits and of the location of the League in Geneva meant that staging visits to the Quai d'Orsay by British ministers were part of the normal diplomatic pattern of the twenties and thirties . |
| 4 | It is not clear whether these were part of the advance column who had been marched back from Bleiburg or some of the vast majority of the Croats who had never entered Austria at all . |
| 5 | Thus the trust 's assets were part of the deceased settlor 's estate and were available to satisfy the claims of his heirs . |
| 6 | It was strong and deeply magical and filled with power and enchantment and with the twilit scents and the dusk-laden sounds that were part of the ancient Wolfwood . |
| 7 | All were part of the diffuse , confused , but radical mood of the summer and autumn . |
| 8 | Planning , at least in the form of extensive control of the ‘ reins of economic power ’ , had traditionally occupied a central part in socialist thought , and public control of economic resources , production and allocation were part of the essential features of left-wing thought between the wars . |
| 9 | ‘ Both Winston and Billy were part of the fly-fishing team for Ireland and were well known in both fishing and other sporting circles . |
| 10 | The plaintiffs claimed that certain grass verges were part of the manorial lands of the manor and wished to re-litigate the question of whether the road verges were part of the highway . |
| 11 | Fig. 10 includes large proportions of rabbits and birds , neither of which were part of the comparative fauna obtained by trapping , so that the two samples appear very dissimilar . |
| 12 | By now they were part of the endless stream of traffic speeding towards west London . |
| 13 | Rose Patterson who was 28 and from Luton and 26 year old Dee Miller from Romford in Essex were part of the four girl Bristol based group called the DIVAS . |
| 14 | England lost all three of their Tests and West Indies won two of theirs , but neither side liked the arrangement of interspersing them with one-day games that were part of the new Benson and Hedges World Series Cup . |
| 15 | These students , like Fang himself , were part of the technocratic elite referred to earlier , but their better prospects and opportunities apparently failed to compensate for other sources of discontent . |
| 16 | They really were part of the unquestioned reality of the culture of the state . |
| 17 | On the one hand , they were part of the public sector , in that they were administered under DES teacher-training regulations but not under further education regulations and two-thirds of them were under local authority control , the rest being denominational colleges . |
| 18 | William Belshaw , and Roy Beggs of Larne before him , left the Party because they moderated and abandoned the party 's policy of non-recognition of the Republic 's representatives , and they were part of the founding generation . |
| 19 | Because of the workings of the housing market the local working population tends to congregate on the village council housing estate ( where one is available ) , where the closely knit patterns of neighbourly association which were part of the occupational community are retained . |
| 20 | Three further development machines were part of the initial production batch of 200 Firefly F.1s for which a contract had been signed on June 12 , 1940 . |
| 21 | v. Commission of the European Communities ( Joined Cases 154/78 , 205/78 , 206/78 , 226/78 , 227/78 , 228/78 , 263/78 , 264/78 , 31/79 , 39/79 , 83/79 , 85/79 ) [ 1980 ] E.C.R. 907 that the guarantee afforded to the ownership of property did not extend to protect commercial interests , the uncertainties of which were part of the very essence of economic activity . |
| 22 | In other places , such as Gloucester , boys were part of the monastic communities which preceded Deans and Chapters . |
| 23 | The Germans had the Berlin Wall to dance on , the British had the Wembley pitch ; both events were part of the same great story of liberation . |
| 24 | The initial reason must have been Protestant fears of what Henri II , using his daughter-in-law , might do after the treaty of Chateau-Cambrèsis ; the public Protestant call to arms and the private and tentative contact with England were part of the same desperate reaction to a situation which left the Protestants no more time to move slowly , and forced them into overt action against the regent — the representative of legitimate authority — and , perhaps , a covert move against her daughter — the legitimate authority . |
| 25 | Indeed most would argue that both were part of the same operation . |
| 26 | Whether the boxing and wrestling matches shown on the carved rhyton from Agia Triadha , a miniature fresco from Tylissos and certain sealings were part of the same or a different festival is not known : the way they are depicted suggests that they too had the quality of ritual struggle . |
| 27 | Both were part of the same system . |
| 28 | They were part of the same process . |
| 29 | ‘ All these people recognized each other and they all realized they were part of the same scene . ’ |
| 30 | It failed because the French and the British were unhappy about supporting such a move and indeed the United Nations looked very likely er er to be more erm willing to condemn the United States than it was to condemn North Vietnam but the view of most countries in the world at that time was that North Viet that North and South Vietnam were part of the same country , that the Geneva accords in nineteen fifty four which called for unification should be upheld , and that the United States was interfering in , in a south east Asian country for no good reason . |