Example sentences of "was a [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The event , held at the leisure centre in Vista Road , Clacton , was a fundraiser for the £7,000 Shopmobility appeal being spearheaded by Tendring District Council . |
| 2 | Bateson resisted the claim that the gene was a material entity , but soon the more materialistic geneticists were arguing for a modified version of Weismann 's germ plasm theory in which the gene was a segment of the chromosome responsible for transmitting a particular character from one generation to the next . |
| 3 | María Luisa Beltranena was a magistrate on the supreme electoral board and a university vice-rector . |
| 4 | Indeed New England was a battleground in the eighteenth century between Puritanism and Enlightenment philosophy . |
| 5 | if there was a 'p' on the worms , it poison , you , you , you little |
| 6 | The issue is a narrow one , namely whether on the true construction of section 9(4) of the Act of 1975 and in the light of the facts that ( a ) Dr. Hayes was a servant of the Crown at the time when he made his investigation into the Lockerbie disaster , ( b ) he has since retired from the service of the Crown , and ( c ) that the evidence sought relates to what he discovered when acting as such a servant , the court has any power to make the order sought . |
| 7 | WHEN I WAS a child , I was always at Wuthering Heights , because my mother was a servant with the Earnshaw family . |
| 8 | There was a crack in the deep , old-fashioned wash-basin and a long , red hair was fixed in the crack and floated out in the water as the basin filled . |
| 9 | There was a crack in the woodwork by the door of the manager 's office . |
| 10 | ‘ My husband was a cousin of the young lady to whom the son of the house was engaged . |
| 11 | At times , it looks like little more than nepotism : The Prince of Wales ' last private secretary , Edward Adeane had been a page-of-honour to the Queen in his teens ; his father , Lord Adeane , had been the Queen 's private secretary for nearly twenty years , and his great-grandfather , Lord Stamfordham had been private secretary to George V. George VI 's private secretary , Sir Alan Lascelles , was a cousin of the sixth Lord Harewood , husband of Princess Mary . |
| 12 | There was a cousin of the Westwards in England who would take the child , someone who would arrange Roman Catholic instruction once a week . |
| 13 | Her father was a cousin of the Cheshire Bartram-Hyndes , she tells me . |
| 14 | With a certain pride Didi added , ‘ My grandmother was a cousin of the Diomedes . ’ |
| 15 | And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food , and that it was a delight to the eyes , and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise , she took of the fruit thereof , and did eat ; and she gave also unto her husband with her , and he did eat … |
| 16 | At McDiarmid Park on Saturday , the 22 year old made light of his excellent midweek showing for Scotland and played some football which was a delight to the eye . |
| 17 | On one wall was a portrait of a man who looked like a young Gary Cooper , hair waved and slicked back , jaw jutting in heroic pose . |
| 18 | In the centre of the room there was a portrait of a very beautiful young man , and in front of it stood the artist himself , Basil Hallward . |
| 19 | The first picture that he painted on moving into 5 Shaftesbury Villas was a portrait of the Observer art critic Nevile Wallis ( Plate 15 ) . |
| 20 | It was a portrait of the white bull terrier , executed with incredible precision . |
| 21 | Some like Sunday long ago , the child Simon had crept up to his Indian step-grandmother when she was asleep in the same wheelchair and thrown a blanket over her , shouting that she was a canary in a cage . |
| 22 | Oh , I 've been with Joyce since then , when had , used to live at Southwold , or near Southwold , and eh , we used to go there and she , she got killed where all the , she had a , a garden wall of felt sort of Fred Flintstone one , and there was a bend on the Ipswich erm , oh Ipswich Lowestoft road , right where she had this cottage |
| 23 | There was a hum in the air like radio static ; I took it to be his voice , and I made answers when the static paused . |
| 24 | By the time we got back there was a marquee in the garden . |
| 25 | The build-up training at Easthampstead Park , in Berkshire , was a chance for the group and the two leaders to get to know each other . |
| 26 | There was a chance of a place on the Nursing Times Open Learning conversion course , but I would have to fund myself . |
| 27 | But he heard stories that living conditions were better in the North and that there was a chance of an education there . |
| 28 | It was a chance in a million that I came through it all alive . ’ |
| 29 | Lifeboat coxswain Dave Kennett , who went out to the yacht , said : ‘ It was a chance in a million they were seen . |
| 30 | It was a chance in a million , and if he did not grasp it , one of his competitors would . |