Example sentences of "the [noun] [was/were] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the Germans were at last being pushed back , there were still the Japanese to demolish , and they were no soft touch by all accounts . |
| 2 | Evidence that oathing was going on in the reserve was at first dismissed with the claim that the Masai involved were ‘ half-and-halfs ’ , that is , the offspring of a Masai father and a Kikuyu mother : the loyalty of the ‘ pure Masai ’ was thought to be beyond question . |
| 3 | The date for the election was at first announced for November 26 . |
| 4 | In the end , however , the decision was at first deferred , and then quietly abandoned . |
| 5 | And when the little bouncing balls came up onscreen , pointing out the subtitled lyrics for ‘ Fixin' To Die Rag ’ , the ciderheads were in seventh heaven . |
| 6 | The drains were at last able to carry the surface water and only a few isolated areas remained flooded . |
| 7 | The college was at last loosening up . |
| 8 | In the event , however , it was not for several years — not until well after the composer 's death — that the missing portion of the overture was at last copied into the score . |
| 9 | She waited until the car vanished round the bend then waited some more until the whine of the engine was at last lost in the distance , then she slowly made her way into the house . |
| 10 | Harold Macmillan spoke in Cape Town , in February 1960 , of the ‘ wind of change ’ and directed the unwilling attention of his countrymen towards an Empire on which the sun was at last setting . |
| 11 | He was cooking ; murder was , for the moment at any rate , not in his thoughts , the sun was at last shining in the way it should do on a seaside holiday , and there were still three more days of holiday to go . |
| 12 | The mitigation of the law was at first carried so far as to sacrifice that object , said J.S. Mill . |
| 13 | The committee was at first divided over the proposal , with Betty Sinclair opposing the whole idea of protest marches , and a decision was deferred to a later meeting , which agreed to go ahead and fixed the date for 24 August . |
| 14 | Russia chose the latter option , and her campaign in the south was at first to have a most promising outcome . |
| 15 | When the Wolof children were asked to put together the pictures or objects in an array that were most alike and to give their reasons , the question was at first put in the form ‘ Why do you say ( or think ) that these are alike ? ’ . |
| 16 | The tramway was at first operated by horses which were stabled at the rear of the present Ashby 's butchers shop . |
| 17 | The end of the War was at last in sight , and with it breaking of the electoral truce . |
| 18 | In 1969 the plight of the tiger was at last officially recognized . |
| 19 | Left empty and decaying for some years , the buildings were at last put up for sale . |
| 20 | On the day the lights were at last put up , Ceauşescu appeared and showed his displeasure with the design . |
| 21 | The paintings were at first estimated at FFr4–5 million by Paris expert Eric Turquin and their sale was planned to help purchase a scanner for the hospital . |
| 22 | The lecturer was at first impatient at being called from a tutorial session , before his vanity was fed the magical words of ‘ Foreign and Commonwealth Office ’ . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , the Trains were in 5th place in the second group and the lead had been taken over by Gyulay/Petervari . |
| 24 | Palestinian negotiators asserted that the Israelis were at last beginning to appreciate the damage their punitive measures had done to popular support for the peace talks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip . |
| 25 | The reception of the schema was at first fairly favourable , but gradually became more and more hostile , with Cardinal Heenan of Westminster emerging as perhaps the harshest critic . |
| 26 | Then it was time to cast off and manoeuvre gently away from the dock.We were at last ready to head down the River Severn and onwards into the Bristol Channel.Our safe passage was in the hands of Severn pilot Pete Tippet : |
| 27 | The Aten was at first described as " the living Re-Harakhty who rejoices in the horizon in his name Shu ( light ) who is Aten " and later as " the living Re , ruler of the Two Horizons , who rejoices in the horizon in his name of Re the father who returns as Aten " . |
| 28 | The train was at last " on different rails " and Unionists could not fail to rejoice at the disarray on the left , but the different rails might prove more suitable for Trotsky 's " locomotive of History " than for Unionist imperialism . |
| 29 | Although the tunnel was at first rejected on the grounds of cost , eventually in 1872 the Severn Tunnel Bill was passed by Parliament and construction began the following year . |
| 30 | At Diego Garcia Island , 3,647 kilometres away ( in the Indian Ocean ) , the sounds of the explosions were at first thought to be coming from a ship in distress , firing its guns to attract attention , so the people ran out to vantage points on the coast of the island to try to see it . |