Example sentences of "was [prep] [noun sg] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1900 Edinburgh Waverley Station boasted forty lady operators working in the telegraph department , sending out 4,000 messages a day.a But it was of course the First World War which suddenly gave a tremendous fillip to women 's employment in stations . |
| 2 | Yet Leavis was in many respects not a man of his time ; though himself a dedicated university teacher , he was in spirit the last of the Victorian sages , who were men of letters and of affairs , not academics ( prescinding from Arnold 's and Ruskin 's marginal tenure of chairs at Oxford ) . |
| 3 | A French housewife recently thought that she had discovered the world 's first metal potato — until she realised that the object she was trying to peel was in fact a Second World War hand grenade , which had probably been scooped up by a potato picking machine before it found its way into her groceries . |
| 4 | When the Data Protection Committee was set up in 1976 , to redeem a pledge made by the Home Secretary when Younger reported , It had no such limitation put upon it — it was in fact the first body empowered to investigate information systems in the public sector , and the Committee came to see this as a major aspect of its work . |
| 5 | Whether this was in fact the first is not really known , nor is it known how or why the tradition started , but Mr Hector Buckley ( in whose barn the 1964 pie was made and which had to be partially demolished to get the pie out ) has a theory about this . |
| 6 | ‘ This type of work is well supported throughout most of Europe but was in fact the first British plant science experiment in microgravity , ’ he said . |
| 7 | It was in fact the first time in his life that he had looked at any woman . |
| 8 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 9 | The Gardener Centre was in fact the first Arts Centre associated with the university ? |
| 10 | His study , which was in fact the second bedroom , was acquiring an important , even scholarly , appearance . |
| 11 | He really believed that he could do this through , through the form of the Blitzkrieg , that is through a limited war er which would secure military objectives and then produce a political peace and the model er for his er policy was in fact the eighteenth century where many wars occurred between European powers wa impo imperial wars and wars on , on t on er total Europe , but none of these wars resulted in the destruction of any state . |
| 12 | This book was in effect the first which emphasized contemporary processes and underlying physical principles and it focused upon river channels , drainage systems , slopes and had some reference to climatic-inspired systems . |
| 13 | As Holy Communion was by tradition the first food and drink of the day , the tea left a feeling of guilt for I was told never to tell anyone although I expect it was a common practice amongst lady communicants . |