Example sentences of "[was/were] a [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seen in feudal terms , the Crusades were a defence of the Lord 's rights to which , in all loyalty , all Christians should contribute , either personally or in other ways . |
| 2 | Balloon-tyred quad bikes and an eight-wheeled amphibious device were a couple of the more light-hearted attractions , but correct use of 4WD vehicles is the reason most people attend . |
| 3 | The Iranians who conquered Babylonia were a branch of the Aryan race . |
| 4 | ‘ They were a hazard to the Galapagos turtles , they were attacking the sand cranes and also the brown pelicans we brought in from the wild because they were injured , ’ said John Dreyer , for Disney World . |
| 5 | By the time of Dositej , the Austro-Serbian Church was led by narrow conservatives whose attitudes were a hindrance to the development of a popular Serbian culture appropriate to the needs of the nation struggling to be born . |
| 6 | But Mr Charlton declined to say whether the Skipton would receive higher commissions on the sale of investment products , or whether commissions were a factor in the severing of the L&G link . |
| 7 | Accordingly two sets of legislation were introduced in the 1960s : the Race Relations Act , which maintained the liberal facade of the state and which , though so weak as to be almost useless in practice , had as a basis the assumption that black people were a part of the community and needed to be protected from racial prejudice : in contrast , and much more effective , were the Immigration Acts , which themselves discriminated against black workers . |
| 8 | At the same time the wife 's role was to serve , and this modest withdrawal was as it were a part of the service . |
| 9 | As E. R. Curtius has pointed out , the pious attitude of the Romans to their past and their tendency to regard it as if it were a part of the present signified a kind of timelessness that excluded a genuinely historical view of the world and was very different from our sense of temporal perspective . |
| 10 | The wire was still there and the bored guards and the roll-call , morning and evening , and the hundreds of faces you grew to hate just because they were a part of the unaltering surroundings . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm very glad that all the Harlequins players were a part of the England set-up before I had anything to do with it ’ , said Best . |
| 12 | Breeding and sex in general were a part of the natural order of things to the people of the old farming community ; and this is another aspect of it that reminds us of its ancient roots . |
| 13 | They were made to wartime restrictions , wooden seats and erm mass produced really , erm there was none of the erm cushioned seats at all , that were a part of the feature during th before the war . |
| 14 | It seems they had two er registers really , one register meant that you were a part of the movement , the other register I imagine meaning you were actually an enemy of this movement so if you got on that register you , you were in , that that would er spell very bad news , so consequently you were trying to join the , the , the first association . |
| 15 | " He probably took the trouble to find out as much as possible about you when he knew that you were a candidate for the job here . |
| 16 | Such conditions were a ruse by the North to make the South pay an unfair share of the cost of protecting the environment , said Bernard Chidzero , the Zimbabwe finance minister , at the September 1989 Commonwealth finance ministers ' meeting in Jamaica . |
| 17 | The results were a setback for the SDP , which won most southern states in the local council elections of December 1990 but had since suffered from well-publicized internal feuding . |
| 18 | That we were a reincarnation of The Jam |
| 19 | Dunn , in fact , made his debut in an excellent 3–0 win at Brighton on 9 September , where his fearless display and accurate clearances were a feature of the game . |
| 20 | The last accomplishment and the saw-playing were a feature of the concert parties . |
| 21 | The government 's bill proposed that the President should mediate in disputes between the government and the Sejm ; such disputes were a feature of the outgoing parliament . |
| 22 | Indeed , reductions rather than increases in tax rates were a feature of the period . |
| 23 | The forest and the lapping water of the great river were a balm to the spirit . |
| 24 | And there were a tap at the door and the hand come out |
| 25 | If you were a head of the legal department of a large company , you would inevitably undertake some of the major matters yourself , but in addition you would be concerned with managing the legal function . |
| 26 | In all groups , female wage rates were a fraction of the corresponding male rates — except in clerical work , where women could expect to receive less than half that of men . |
| 27 | The Pretoria talks were a follow-up to the first meeting between the government and the ANC in Cape Town in May [ see pp. 37440-41 ] . |
| 28 | These meetings were a dress-rehearsal for the first session of the Council . |
| 29 | They were a delight for the charterers in the Bahamian lagoons , but in an Atlantic storm such wide windows could be our death warrants for if Wavebreaker fell off a big wave the glass could be driven out of the windows and the boat be filling with water in seconds , and so I cut and shaped sheet steel shutters that could be bolted over the boat 's glass at the first sign of bad weather . |
| 30 | Disappearing zoanthids were a clue to the presence of the most spectacular uninvited guest I 've yet observed in my system . |