Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have to remember that Ferguson was in the under-21 side the day before that match and that Ibrox on Wednesday night was his home debut at full international level . ’ |
| 2 | Speculation that Hawke was in the grip of the left increased on June 18 when he forced the majority of the Cabinet to endorse a permanent ban on mining at Coronation Hill , in the Northern Territory . |
| 3 | It also ensured that Patrick was in the deepest shadow and not immediately visible from the street . |
| 4 | We know from archaeology that Birka was at the northern end of a flourishing trade route which was beginning in the 830s and 840s to bring in huge quantities of silver from the Muslim-controlled trade routes between Byzantium and China . |
| 5 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 6 | One afternoon , when Aunt Lilian was lying down , I told Aunt Kit that Richard was on the ‘ other side ’ over Suez and that I had decided to leave him . |
| 7 | It was said that Arkhina was among the most influential women of the Kha-Khan 's court , but she was too like her sister-in-law , his father 's wife , for him to be on good terms with her . |
| 8 | In fact , he was already discussing it in his office when he discovered that Paramount were in the middle of a feud with Redford and were just about to serve him with a writ . |
| 9 | Various other reports suggest that Wise was at the mill up to 1890 . |
| 10 | On 30 August , Amery was saying how glad he was that Hailsham was outside the government ; ‘ I can look to him as an ally in helping to bring the thing to a conclusion reasonably soon . ’ |
| 11 | She rushed indoors , using her choicest language , not realising that Erica was in the orchard . |
| 12 | The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) reported in mid-February that Kurdistan was on the point of collapse and that hundreds of thousands of people were facing starvation as a result of the Iraqi blockade and the cutting of supply lines to Iran by snow and to Turkey by a lorry strike . |
| 13 | All the managers knew that Karen was on the Committee because she always had a notebook in her hand . |
| 14 | M.J. talked a lot , and Donald said I encouraged her too much , and that I.C.B. was on the point of being more personal and interesting if I had let her — but I was rather shy of it . |
| 15 | His hand-picked President , Francisco Rodriguez , said the government had ‘ all kinds of proof ’ that Washington was behind the coup attempt . |
| 16 | In a number of decisions , involving the Spanish oil refinery industry , the Commission took account of the fact that Spain was in the process of liberalising what was currently a highly regulated market . |
| 17 | He reined in when he saw that Alexei was in the garden , watched for a time , and then spat expressively to left and to right and rode on . |
| 18 | When he was sure that Zhukov was in the right position , Kirov let him go . |
| 19 | Uncertain of the kind of climate which awaited her , she 'd consulted her hastily purchased travel guide , to be informed that Copenhagen was on the same latitude as Newcastle-on-Tyne in England and shared similar weather patterns . |
| 20 | The deceased 's solicitor , Eustace Tolby , attested that Newley was on the verge of instituting divorce proceedings against his wife . |
| 21 | And the Classic Anthology shows , therefore , that Williams was in the right when , to close his sour and justifiably contemptuous statement of 1945 , he wrote : |
| 22 | That meant that Goodwin was from the working class and had made it . |
| 23 | It was their fault , really , that Jesus was on the cross . |
| 24 | Striker Andy Clarke last night warned Norwich that Wimbledon were in the mood for another upset . |
| 25 | Peering again at the list of medications , she started to say something to Elinor , then stopped short , remembering that Adam was in the room . |
| 26 | With various motives — from the fear that the worst excesses of Thatcherism were making the existing social order less stable , to the belief that God was on the side of oppressed people seeking justice — its leaders spoke out against particularly inhumane State policies . |
| 27 | I think people in the British churches , and probably outside them , twenty or thirty years ago lived in a rather secure world and they understood that God was on the whole on the side of the British Empire and the missionaries as they went out to civilize other places , and that was true also of the other European forms of God . |
| 28 | He warned , however , that the perception abroad that Yugoslavia was on the brink of disintegration and civil war was inhibiting foreign investment in the country . |
| 29 | But it is also true that Rolle was in the habit of reworking old material with variations in different works and that the manuscript ascriptions to him suggest that there was no discomfort in seeing the Meditations as part of the Rolle canon in the late medieval period . |
| 30 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |