Example sentences of "was the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could say that he was the dissenter in an age of … romantic anarchy . |
| 2 | Was the build-up to the first ‘ test ’ too gentle ? |
| 3 | The thing I most disliked was the disapproval of the dons because I admitted I would like to write ! ’ |
| 4 | The trouble was that Louise , like a number of other members of the garrison , was suffering from scurvy ; there had been several cases of partial blindness and of swollen heads , but the most common symptom , and the one which was troubling Louise , was the loosening of teeth . |
| 5 | The forthcoming trials of Weinberger and of retired Central Intelligence Agency official Duane R. Clarridge were not directly affected by the decision to end the inquiry , nor was the retrial of CIA official Clair E. George , whose first trial had ended in August with the jury unable to agree on a verdict [ see p. 39043 ] . |
| 6 | One consequence was the downgrading of ‘ political news ’ . |
| 7 | They emphasised that it was the circumstances of the individual case which led them to reject charges of degrading or inhuman treatment . |
| 8 | The Englishman 's news from New York emphasized again the paper 's tilt towards the United States ; it might cover Italy , India , Denmark , but it was the America of LBJ , poetry , the Vietnam movement , and Golden Gate love-ins that exerted the magnetic attraction . |
| 9 | And in the general confusion over Sunday opening , there was the opportunity of sneaking a few extra days of trading , and most booksellers who took this up were well rewarded for their efforts . |
| 10 | Photographers were tending to adopt that method on every job , even if there was the opportunity for a natural approach . |
| 11 | Here at last was the opportunity for almost unlimited eastward expansion . |
| 12 | Where the Colonel Generals , where the Colonels , where the Majors of Headquarters had failed , idiot buggers , there was the opportunity for an ambitious Captain to succeed . |
| 13 | I am sure that there has been much more scheming involved and the invasion , which I have always opposed , was the opportunity for this action to be unleased . |
| 14 | What I missed most at this occa , on this occasion was the opportunity for bible study , but I think getting pe er , a visitor of another kind there was able to visit some of the bible studies each morning . |
| 15 | And that was the film with the scene of the boy coming into the bar that I said I thought of when I saw Boy coming in sometimes . |
| 16 | That was the film of the book . |
| 17 | ‘ What was the film like ? ’ asked the other goat . |
| 18 | Less widely organised but feared rather more was the operation of the machinery of justice . |
| 19 | One of the most successful was the operation to which the hit man , Guy Fawkes , gave his name in 1605 . |
| 20 | An example was the operation in 1992 by the Commission d'Energie Atomique to feed cash into the ailing electronics giant Thomson CSF . |
| 21 | ‘ Indeed so great was the press of people around us , that I gripped my brother 's arm lest he be trampled underfoot . |
| 22 | Hocazade was reconciled with his father , for whom he subsequently gave a great feast ; so great was the press of notables , however , that his brothers were forced to stand among the servants . |
| 23 | And when they came to the sea , so great was the press among them to get to the ships , that more than ten thousand died in the water . |
| 24 | This week , however , the only progress was the addition of an adjective : the chief Syrian negotiator , Mouaffak Allaf , said Syria was willing to trade ‘ full ’ peace for full Israeli withdrawal . |
| 25 | The most important variation from Redcliffe-Maud as far as the structure of local government was concerned was the addition of two further metropolitan areas . |
| 26 | Nor was the addition of subcutaneous heparin to aspirin associated with any reduction in the prespecified endpoint of 35-day mortality ( table I ) . |
| 27 | High on the back wall was the window of the projection room , where strange machinery aimed its flickering beams at the big screen and by sheer magic produced talking , moving , living pictures . |
| 28 | She entered the lit passage and there was the window in the elbow of it , dark now as then , a crowd of pictures on the walls , paintings beneath paintings . |
| 29 | One of the key themes of the campaign was the degree to which the country 's recently re-established democratic process would be safe in the hands of any of the traditional party leaders , all of whom were widely perceived as personifying a political culture traditionally steeped in patronage and money . |
| 30 | The most amusing thing about the period of my engagement to Karen was the degree of role reversal involved . |