Example sentences of "was [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith himself was for a few years a tutor at Christ Church , but in 1795 he resigned his studentship to become incumbent of Daventry ( a Christ Church living ) , returning to Christ Church as a canon in 1807 . |
| 2 | The Plan B mentioned last year was for the All Blacks to make only a fleeting visit to Australia , thus opening the way for the South Africans to make a short tour to Australia and then for the All Blacks to go to South Africa . |
| 3 | It has been noted that it was for the same crimes that Klaus Barbie was sentenced by the courts in Lyon to life imprisonment . |
| 4 | Johnson Matthey was amongst the many companies with chemicals operations in the locality taking part . |
| 5 | But in spite of Tess 's decision to forget her ancestors , the dairy , called Talbothays , especially attracted her because it was near the former lands of the old d'Urberville family . |
| 6 | One minute there he was with a few scraps of grey hair plastered across his scalp — the next he looks like a prizewinner at Cruft 's Dog Show . |
| 7 | For the next 2000 years the abstract/axiomatic approach was with a few exceptions replaced by a more concrete intuitive approach . |
| 8 | But the way he did it was with the same connections he defied , and to get into serious racing in his early days , he got a bank to give him credit and a sponsor to give him some backing : though he had n't , of his own , a sou in the world . |
| 9 | While his parents could only be with him during the occasional break in a hectic schedule , at least Diana knew that he was under the same skies . |
| 10 | The most that was achieved was in a few examples of new highway construction ( in London the long-standing schemes of the Great West Road and the North Circular came to fruition ) ; and in the bigger cities , there were road-widening schemes , some stretches of dual carriageway and the occasional new project ( such as the Headrow in Leeds linked to redevelopment ) and some spectacular new projects ( such as the new suspension bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle and the Mersey Tunnel at Liverpool/Birkenhead ) . |
| 11 | Paula Bale , the Fijian-born Canterbury winger who played for New Zealand in Suva last weekend and was in the All Blacks ' squad for the RWC Sevens at Murrayfield from 16-18 April , has been given clearance by the NZRFU to represent Fiji — proof , yet again , of what a farcical situation the present haphazard laws on international eligibility place the game . |
| 12 | It was in the same colours as the bunting , red , white and blue . |
| 13 | COLIN Jackson was within a few inches of Olympic disaster last night in his bid for the 110 metres hurdles crown . |
| 14 | When she was within a few feet of the ground , the cat leapt from her and rubbed itself against its mistress 's legs . |
| 15 | The hiss was clear on MW and LW while the calculator was within a few feet of the set , but not on FM . |
| 16 | The second man ducked back around the corner and Maxim backed off crouching and aiming until he was within a few metres of the cross-street . |
| 17 | Spike knew that he was within a few moments of termination . |
| 18 | It was from the same haunts as the tarsier that the original " Wild Man of Borneo " — the orangutan , or " man of the forest " — was to reveal himself : a creature so vulnerable , so resonant with human emotion , that we could not fail to see ourselves in him . |
| 19 | We wat , did you see that film up , that was on a few nights ago , some time last week I think ? |
| 20 | The resolution was on the same lines as that put forward on Oct. 23 by the UN Special Committee on the Implementation of the Declaration on Decolonization , which expressed its " conviction that the pursuit of a direct dialogue between the two parties to the conflict naturally contributed to the ( peace ) process ' . |
| 21 | The strange thing was they did n't seem to mind that he was on the same terms with judges , cops and lawyers . |
| 22 | Sabine was among the many girls of Irish descent who entered one of eight regional finals held in Guinness Irish pubs throughout Germany , all culminating in the national final held in the Irish Pub in Berlin 's Europa Centre . |