Example sentences of "the [noun] [was/were] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event the money was nothing like enough because the new owners were able to force Ayling to pay for structural work which needed to be carried out to the upper part . |
| 2 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 3 | The Vice-Chancellor , Sir Donald Nicholls , said that the section gave the Court discretion in the widest sense , and in His Lordship 's view , the case was one in which a sale should be directed , even though there would be a deficiency . |
| 4 | VWAG argued that the case was one in which there was ‘ occasion to transmit a judicial document for service abroad ’ , because VWAG , which was not present in Illinois , would need , and was expected , to answer the allegations made against it . |
| 5 | Having reached that conclusion , their Lordships considered whether the case was one in which the proviso to section 14(1) of the Judicature ( Appellate Jurisdiction ) Act might suitably be applied to uphold the conviction . |
| 6 | So , er , what the description was there by the way , it 's not meant to be a description of the person . |
| 7 | As members of the RSPB the reserve was ours for free ; non-members were purchasing permits from ‘ reception ’ to gain admittance . |
| 8 | The question for the courts was whether or not the decision was one at which the individual official could reasonably have arrived . |
| 9 | He relied upon the fact that the evidence of Price , although ( if accepted ) it implicated the applicant in the commission of the relevant offences , did not provide any evidence that the applicant was himself in Sweden at the time when those offences were committed . |
| 10 | Also a couple of days later Olsen himself once again spoke upon the matter — and the headline was something like ‘ Get a new club , Frank ’ . |
| 11 | More people owned motor cars than previously : by 1956 there was one car for every three people in the United States ; in France and Britain the figure was one for every thirteen people . |
| 12 | In the best 10 per cent of hospitals only one operating theatre session in 77 had to be cancelled , but in the worst 10 per cent the figure was one in six , he said . |
| 13 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 14 | ‘ A small part of the fault was mine for not noticing that Eleanor considered me as a great deal more than her employer . |
| 15 | We see this at the birth of the church where ‘ all the believers were together ’ , ‘ all the believers were one in heart and mind … . ’ , ‘ they shared everything they had … . ’ , ‘ there were no needy persons among them … . ’ , ‘ and the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved ’ ( Acts 2:42–47 ; 4:32–35 ) . |
| 16 | Wyn Stewart and her husband , Peter are proof that the Club was something of a dating agency for its members . |
| 17 | Alternatively , the killer was someone from the house who had secured the door to ensure privacy , but opened it again after his crime to confirm the impression that an outsider was involved . |
| 18 | More than half those polled for Woman 's Own reckoned the ECU was anything from toothpaste to an exotic animal , while 90 per did not have a clue what ERM stood for . |
| 19 | Halfway between the target and the coast the Night engineer announced that we were having a heavy petrol consumption and the dialogue was something like this : |
| 20 | Nicholas still denies the exchange was anything like as bad as the court supposed and although he paid £1,300 damages to the victim , h e remains adamant that an injustice was done . |
| 21 | Among the articles was one on Knudsen , including several reproductions of his paintings . |
| 22 | And when they got there , they found that both anticipation and anxiety had overestimated the occasion , for like the reception at the Hôtel de Ville , the dance was nothing but a stifling , uncomfortable , noisy , joyless crush . |
| 23 | The mountains were ours at our feet . |
| 24 | As Cliff Bastin later recalled : ‘ Relations between these two had gradually been becoming more and more strained , until it ultimately came to a point at which the question was which of them would be the first to vent his feelings on the other . |
| 25 | But the process was one in which Britain has played a leading role , and the result is one in which we can clearly see the imprint of our views . |
| 26 | In reality the distribution was nothing like as even as this . |
| 27 | The British attitude had long been clear : the 1951 Conservative government had continued to follow the line laid down by the previous Labour foreign minister , Ernest Bevin , who said in the House of Commons in November 1950 that Britain preferred an expansion of the Treaty of Brussels to serve as the basis of military cooperation within NATO , but would not object to the EDC were it to be established . |
| 28 | The swimming-pool was something of a disappointment . |
| 29 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
| 30 | Yet after the success in India , it appeared that the job was his for the foreseeable future — only for the news to break at the beginning of the 1977 season that , when in Australia for the Centenary Test , he had used his position to recruit players to Kerry Packer 's World Series Cricket . |