Example sentences of "was the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I , I thought it was the peanut butter you see , and then I just thought what you said last night . |
| 2 | The defendant , who was the freehold owner of a house , subject to a local authority mortgage , emigrated to the United States in 1976 , leaving the house in the occupation of his mother , his sister , C. and her husband , D. In April 1979 the defendant signed a power of attorney in favour of his mother in terms which enabled her to sell the property . |
| 3 | But the principal focus for freight traffic was the goods station . |
| 4 | Filmmakers and critics were not the only ones worrying about the state of British filmmaking , nor was the film industry the only British enterprise losing out to American competition . |
| 5 | Item 3 was the press release saying , in effect , how unhelpful the British had been . |
| 6 | When an American rang the busy news-desk of City Radio 's ‘ Good Morning ’ show , the call was taken by a girl trainee who later tearfully admitted she had not thought to query the claim that the speaker was the Press Counsellor from the American embassy with a genuine news-bulletin . |
| 7 | It did , what did n't cheer me up though Jane was the Press Box facilities . |
| 8 | Since he was the majority shareholder , this would have meant his family getting hold of the business — and much as we liked them , this was n't a prospect we exactly relished . |
| 9 | It is right to say that the applicant asserts that since that time Mr. Tee has not been associated with the running of Winchester 's business , although of course on his own evidence he was the majority shareholder in that company . |
| 10 | One of the few places we could go to on the camp at Binbrook without risk of being observed by the hierarchy was the Station cinema . |
| 11 | Perhaps the last feeble kick of this lust to print one 's name was the station platform and amusement arcade machine where , on inserting a penny , one was able to punch one 's name on a metal strip , which the contraption disgorged on the pull of a handle . |
| 12 | It was n't a cafe Dave it was the Station Hotel . |
| 13 | Columns of cast iron support roofs of wrought iron and glass over the three original bays ( the fourth is a more recent addition ) , and an oriel above Platform 1 was the Station Master 's vantage point . |
| 14 | Now there 's a picture of the station , and you can see that we 've got the post , the cobbled entrance , on this on the left hand side was the station master 's house , the garden . |
| 15 | The sequence of events began in the early 1960s when Jack Hayden was the station foreman . |
| 16 | The largest structure Turner designed and erected was the station roof at Liverpool 's Lime Street station , 1849–50 . |
| 17 | He did have one valid point , which unfortunately was the basis for his Groove Tubes bashing , and this was the transposition error pertaining to the state of electrons : ie. positively/negatively charged . |
| 18 | Gandalf remarks at the same time that he sent Gwaihir the eagle to watch the River ; presumably he was the eagle Aragorn saw , but thought nothing of , as he stared out from Amon Hen on the first page of The Two Towers . |
| 19 | Despite this , ‘ Johnny B Goode ’ was the Chuck record that moved music one step away from R&B and rock'n'roll and into RAWK ! |
| 20 | Two dances later ( had word got round ? ) another partner , it was the philosophy brother — or could it be the soldier brother ? — kissed her . |
| 21 | No that was the that was the furniture repository . |
| 22 | Yeah that was the furniture repository nothing about the crystal palace . |
| 23 | First it was the Birmingham Conference with axes , swords , knives and anything else with a sharpened edge to boldly go where no pest controller has gone before . |
| 24 | No , I 'm ashamed to say it but the only time I 've seen Leeds away was the charity shield at wembley . |
| 25 | In many ways it was the currency reform and the severance of trade with Germany the following year that had paved the way for the military coup in Poland that installed Marshal Piłsudski as head of government in May 1926 . |
| 26 | Syria feared this was the fist step in his long-awaited Greater Syria project . |
| 27 | The commonest type , also as in Norway , was the stave church , but few examples survive in Sweden . |
| 28 | The result was the commodities boom and a major upward twist to inflation . |
| 29 | It was the tail end of the rush hour . |
| 30 | It was the Kent countryside that inspired him and which he wanted to be a part of . |