Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleven months later the new Secretary of State said that he was equally committed to a very substantial expansion in student numbers , and stated that the government 's plans were for an increase of 50,000 by 1993 . |
| 2 | SE claimed that the cylinders were for an Iraqi petrochemical project and that their export had been approved by the UK 's Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) . |
| 3 | His first thoughts were for an eighteen month old child and an elderly lodger also in the house . |
| 4 | I bought the fish from a local breeder when they were about an inch long . |
| 5 | They were about an inch to one and a half inches in thickness and nearly two feet square . |
| 6 | The idol of the juniors is Jeremy Guscott , the Lions , England and Bath centre , whose first steps in the game were as an eight-year-old mini-rugby player . |
| 7 | If you were involved in things at a senior level , whether it were as an administrator , a Minister or even as a senior policeman , you had hundreds of things on the go at any one time . |
| 8 | Her mother was leaning back , her head tilted , a faint flush from the wine tinting her cheeks , the tilt of her head drawing the flesh from her chin and jaw , making her look young , younger than her years , and handsome , and , Erika suddenly realised , her eyes were of an exquisite forget-me-not blue . |
| 9 | The stories were of an dullness to bring a water buffalo to its knees . |
| 10 | The most recent survey showed that of 1460 journals published in France during 1984 , only 150 were of an international standard . |
| 11 | They were of an age , Hawk and Jennifer , and had been close as teenagers , before Hawk joined up with the Sons of Geronimo and left the Reservation , intent on changing the world . |
| 12 | Most were in their 40s to 60s in age and were of an Establishment style and type . |
| 13 | And Selvey 's summing-up was worthy of a high court judge : very frivolous , and most them marginal , but only five of the 34 wickets were leg-before and even those were of an apparently arbitrary nature : those given seemed to have no more merit than many that were not . ’ |
| 14 | The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years . |
| 15 | To take just one instance , most of them were of an age to lose brothers , fathers , husbands or the chance of marriage during the Great War , |
| 16 | Again , methods for displaying precious substances were of an elementary character . |
| 17 | The interpretation for which both the applicant and the Attorney-General contended before the Court of Appeal was that the answer was affirmative ; either because the proceedings for habeas corpus were so firmly imprinted with a civil character that they were to be treated as civil , notwithstanding the essentially criminal nature of the proceedings from which they arose , or because they were of an indeterminate nature , which section 13(2) ( a ) was wide enough to embrace . |
| 18 | Reading the two clauses together , the quantification direction did , in our opinion , entitle the defendants to quantification on an indemnity basis but did not entitle the defendants to recover costs , charges and expenses that had been unreasonably incurred or were of an unreasonable amount . |
| 19 | I was very happy ; and if sometimes the familiarities in our relationship were of an irritating nature ( like the way he teased me , as he had always teased me , about my sticking-out ears , for instance ) I pushed them aside and refused to acknowledge them — even when they were quite important , the sort of things on which the nagging small voice was once wont to pounce as reasons against any positive commitment . |
| 20 | This lad and Rose were of an age . |
| 21 | Ford were amongst an increasing number of customers who were insisting upon suppliers meeting quality assurance standards such as British Standard [ BS ] 5750 , ISO 9000 [ the international equivalent ] or in Ford 's case , their own Q101 . |
| 22 | These homes were like an unsavoury silo , places to store people rather than house them . |
| 23 | The tallest of the men looked down at Ruth ; his hair was bright silver , and his gold eyes were like an eagle 's . |
| 24 | The noise and the shock were like an explosion . |
| 25 | But those four miles were like an ocean , which I could not cross ! |
| 26 | Whereas Luke was very near , and the feelings he aroused in her were like an undertow , pulling her down . |
| 27 | The Parliamentary Ombudsman was the first to be created in Britain in 1967 after a series of incidents highlighted how powerless people were against an abuse of power by central government . |
| 28 | That afternoon we were with an African business man . |
| 29 | You were out of the office , you were at a meeting , you were with an important client and could n't possibly be disturbed . ’ |
| 30 | We all knew we were into an end-of-season of extraordinary interest , despite the fact that Niki conquered Monza in style and Prost again failed to finish . |