Example sentences of "[was/were] available [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 By his speeches , he shamed Attlee 's government into changing this policy so that free hearing-aids and batteries were available under the National Health Service .
2 For that reason , there may be some regret in the industry at the loss of the generous system of allowances that were available under the PRT regime which many companies had learned to live with for want of any better way of taxing oil income .
3 The completeness of the 1989–90 material is more difficult to evaluate because the drugs in this period were available over the counter .
4 A recording had been made and cassettes were available through the office .
5 The Law Commission , which first suggested the introduction of the AJR , contemplated that applicants would have a free choice between the two procedural paths in cases where both were available on the facts of the case .
6 He said operations were available on the National Health Service .
7 One fascinating piece of information given in E. R. Wickham 's historical study of the Church in nineteenth-century Sheffield shows the pattern of pew rentals in the parish church ( now the Cathedral ) , and the point is made very forcibly that very few seats were available for the non-renting poor .
8 Dieppe , with its narrow streets and harbour set between chalk cliffs 150 feet ( 50m ) high , was the intended target of a commando and RM Division raid , as soon as sufficient craft were available for the simultaneous landing of a division .
9 News on Sunday 's temporary London offices in GLEB were available for the summit , but Pilger instead hired a room in the Kennedy Hotel , a modem businessman 's establishment next to Euston station .
10 No figures were available for the number of works sold and the total turnover , but according to the organisers , the majority of participants were satisfied with the results : Connaught Brown sold all their Lucian Freud etchings ; the Salzburg gallery from Weihergut , Austria sold their entire stock .
11 For customers who require more than 1MW — discounts of between 10% and 30% were available for the 1990–91 year , after some haggling .
12 The rise of the Elizabethan merchant class , however , meant that capital and management were available for the exploitation of both land and people .
13 Mr. Marston points , for example , to the evidence of the social worker , who took the view that no other non-secure units were available for the child .
14 Since no objective accident data were available for the areas shown in the films used in this study , it is not possible to define certain films as exemplars of risky junctions a priori .
15 This they did not do and they should have ascertained by sticking writing into the National Westminster Bank to confirm that sufficient funds were available for the completion of the proposed transaction and that the terms upon which this finance was to be made available had been agreed .
16 Video and audio cassettes of each session were available at the bookshop within twenty minutes of the finish , which is the time when people want to buy them .
17 ‘ We could have just announced that free tickets were available at the door but after talking to the police about it we decided that was a bad idea .
18 We 'd have liked to try the LSE with Lowden 's new preamp system complete with volume and treble/bass controls on the upper bout , but none were available at the time and we 've had to make do with the non-controlled version .
19 Far too many of them , however , soon started to produce technical problems of one kind or another which almost immediately swamped the tiny number of experts in organic materials who were available at the Royal Aircraft Establishment .
20 With his film background , Verity Lambert saw in Barry a good technical brain , ingenious enough to overcome Doctor Who 's limited budget through inventiveness and by optimum use of what special effects were available at the time .
21 To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many beds were available at the intensive care unit at Sunderland general hospital in ( a ) December 1990 and ( b ) December 1991 .
22 Five beds were available at the intensive care unit throughout both of the months named .
23 The original calculations which are outlined in er N Y six are based on assumptions which were available at the time which were based on the eighty one census essentially , those calculations form the basis of the consultation plan and the deposit plan .
24 A spokesman for the Eastern Board said 24-hour Accident and Emergency facilities were available throughout the city and were available at the City , Mater , Royal and Ulster hospital sites .
25 The report , leaked to BBC local radio station CWR in Coventry , said : ‘ A series of clues were available to the shift maintenance manager to draw attention to the use of incorrect bolts but all went un-noticed or unheeded . ’
26 The subsequent development of the jaw enabled the vertebrates to exploit a wider range of lifestyles than were available to the jawless fish , and it would not be too gross a generalization to say that much of the evolution of the vertebrates was intimately related to things that happened to jaws .
27 In this chapter , we shall look first at the laws that were available to the authorities in the years before Mrs Thatcher 's Government came into office in 1979 .
28 Breach of the peace and police powers of arrest These two sections in the Public Order Act were not all that were available to the authorities before 1979 .
29 The first Tay Bridge showed up the lack of expertise and foresight required for such a structure , no wind tunnels or sophisticated testing were available to the engineers in the late 1870s .
30 These analyses are based on more complete data than were available to the authors of the Black report .
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