Example sentences of "was [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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1 | This last criterion was applied in the Charter Consolidated Ltd/Anderson Strathclyde Ltd Report ( 1982 ) , where the concern was for the effects of the merger on employment in an area of Scotland which already had high unemployment . |
2 | Time and again in England and Wales , the company that bought the bus undertaking in the first instance proved to be only a halfway house to resales , mergers and splits , and all the time the very last consideration was for the interests of the travelling public . |
3 | He maintained that the death of Christ was for the sins of all men against the first covenant . |
4 | The British Tommy 's good humour will be appreciated by the Burman of today as it was during the days of the Rangoon riots in 1939 . |
5 | At one time it was thought that the brain reached its peak of potential performance when the individual was between the ages of 18 and 25 years and that , from that time onwards , it began to deteriorate . |
6 | If the proprietor was between the ages of 50 and 60 in 1952 , at least 50% of his vineyard must be planted with authorised varieties . |
7 | That was about the chances of Britain producing any sort of major champion , let alone a world champion . |
8 | You can see how completely unconcerned this brutal man was about the feelings of the members of his family . |
9 | There was one based on Proust and one based on Zola , and the winner was about the ghosts of a haunted house being disturbed by an estate agent and a gang of would-be mortgage slaves . |
10 | My first published piece of nature writing was about the pinewoods of Abernethy . |
11 | People who had persuaded him that the only safe time to take out the dog was after the hours of darkness , when you were only likely to meet George ‘ Let's Get Rabbits ’ Grover . |
12 | Here the new building is redolent of the symbols of commercial architecture — polished marble , hi-tech glazing , stepped cube facades — as the old one was of the values of its age . |
13 | Talk was of the mysteries of tension ribbing … and men . |
14 | In the following month his was amongst the names of twenty foreign professors to receive the Micheliano Catalogo and in 1758 he appeared on a list of those to receive a consignment of seeds . |
15 | It was against the laws of nature , unnatural . |
16 | At one institution a group of medical officers argued that it was against the interests of most long-term hospital residents with chronic illnesses to be resettled in community units . |
17 | The glow from the furnace in the steam-filled room was like the flames of hell licking out to show her the place where her father had gone . |
18 | She was like the photographs of Hollywood film stars that she had seen once in an old copy of Picturegoer . |
19 | It was like the changing-rooms of a thousand football clubs , or schools for that matter . |
20 | Descartes , indeed , was with the armies of Maximilian of Bavaria in 1619 at the very beginning of the Thirty Years War when , at Neuberg on the Danube , he had that sequence of dreams which convinced him that his mission was to seek out truth by means of reason . |
21 | Unfamiliar as she was with the niceties of English social life , she wondered why she should be surprised . |
22 | 24 above ) was with the laws of kashrut , pollutions from secretions of various bodily orifices , and , as we have seen above , legislation about the cult and priesthood . |
23 | It had been in Essex that , out of discontent with sitting at home , Leslie had requested a posting abroad ; and it was somehow appropriate that it was with the men of Essex that he should have ended the North African campaign . |
24 | In 1857 , Reading police force was under the auspices of Chief Constable Henry Peck , a man who played it strictly by the rule book . |
25 | Much of the post-war rise in social research into ageing and employment was under the auspices of the Nuffield Foundation . |
26 | It was under the auspices of arch that the conference to discuss how best to repair Croatia 's war damage was held in Zagreb last December . |
27 | Pausanias thought Myrtilos was under the heads of Oenomaus 's horses , but since he certainly took the girl for male he may have meant her . |
28 | But Merseyside Labour MPs yesterday denounced the verdict which blamed Mr Evans of Wigan who they said was under the orders of the starter , Captain Keith Brown . |
29 | It was also cautiously convinced that the most promising way to think about memory was along the lines of Donald Hebb 's model , which involves changes in the strength of the connections between nerve cells , perhaps by growing new or enlarged synapses , and so altering the physiological relationships between neurons . |
30 | Certainly , the limited penetration of the Weald in the early centuries of Saxon occupation was along the tributaries of the greater streams , on the banks of the eastern and western Rothers and the Brede , in the hinterland behind Hastings . |