Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dominica 's foreign affairs were dominated by the plans for political union agreed in principle by the seven countries of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States ( OECS ) . |
| 2 | Each morning after the bathroom run , the three of us were let off the chains for an hour or so to exercise . |
| 3 | For the third term , the key policy areas , which would tackle the ‘ really big job ’ of the ‘ inner cities ’ , were named as the policies for local government , education , and housing . |
| 4 | The operation of the twenty-two disciplinary offences was suspended and concessions were made on the fees for signing on and off . |
| 5 | At the crown , small rollers were used at the roots for smaller curls and larger ones towards the ends for more body |
| 6 | For instance , the predicates clear and ’ ’ were used in the conditions for the operations in the blocks world , but adding them did not extend the descriptive power of the language . |
| 7 | These attitudes were reflected in the arrangements for famine relief in Tsaritsyn guberniia , to which we will now turn , since our attention has been directed so far on Saratov and Samara gubernii to the north of it . |
| 8 | However , few engagements were noted for the fighters for several days , although Sgt. Robertson saw three Bf109s above him on 20th. , but was unable to reach their altitude . |
| 9 | When the BAe/Rover deal was first announced , surprise was expressed and questions were raised about the reasons for BAe 's interest in Rover . |
| 10 | Well you could n't er the men were hired on the farms for for a term of six months you know . |
| 11 | Such cultic shedding of blood was regarded as the means of connecting with the Godhead , and animals were brought to the priests for sacrifice as sin- and thank-offerings , for purging ritual impurity , covenanting and redemption of both the individual and the nation as a whole ( Lev . |
| 12 | On winning the accolade the brothers were praised by the judges for their tremendous grassland and forage management on the 45 ha ( 111 acre ) farm at , near Lampeter , Dyfed . |
| 13 | No central SD reports were compiled on the celebrations for the Führer 's birthday on 20 April 1944 . |
| 14 | These were refloored , covered with linoleum , coved at all angles , and hooks were fixed in the ceilings for suspending cots in two tiers on both sides for the naval trains , and folding berths in two tiers hinged to the sides for the military trains . |
| 15 | Since the publishers of Radcliffe Hall 's The Well of Loneliness and Lawrence 's Lady Chatterley 's Lover were charged before the courts for contravening the laws of obscenity and both cases were lost by the Crown , any subject can be discussed in public . |
| 16 | He refused to pay the commission of $125,000 due to the defendants and proceedings were started by the defendants for its recovery . |
| 17 | Earlier that night he and a friend of Mr Patterson were thrown off the premises for fighting because Sharpe allegedly spilt beer over the other man 's girlfriend . |
| 18 | The forests were cleared over the years for a variety of reasons : because people were scared of wolves , which roamed the area well into the seventeenth century ; to make sure travellers could see robbers , before robbers saw them ; to provide timber for shipbuilding : trees were felled and floated downstream through Loch Tummel and the River Tay to Perth . |
| 19 | Shorter papers were published on the proposals for a National Health Service ; Hydro Electric Development ; the demobilisation problems confronting Lewis servicemen ; the Water ( Scotland ) Bill ; the National Insurance Scheme and a proposal to reclaim a large area of tidal land for agriculture . |
| 20 | Analysts were divided over the prospects for share prices as the widely based FT-SE 100 index lost a further 30.5 points to close at 2,247.0 . |
| 21 | Thus the case was presented on the footing that the documents concerned had come into being and were held by the solicitors for their client as the result of a suspected intent by a third party to use them for the purpose of furthering his criminal activity . |
| 22 | In the summer he was stopped by the police for overloading his builder 's van . |
| 23 | But strangely , nothing further was heard of the islands for several hundred years until the famous Dutch explorer Willem Barents rediscovered Svalbard in 1596 . |
| 24 | Although compensation was given to the deportees for possessions stolen from them during the journey , no compensation was offered to the schoolchildren who were forced by internment to leave school or job training to which , in most cases , they were unable to return . |
| 25 | Do you remind them of Angela Williams , the first person to be prosecuted for smoking on the tube or of Paul Deiring , the first person to be jailed for smoking on the tube ( he could n't pay his £25 fine ) or do you make like Eric Butler , the Bernard Goetz of the Victoria Line , who , in 1987 , mocked and taunted by drunken youths , retaliated with a sword-stick and was punished in the courts for his efforts . |
| 26 | ‘ THERE ‘ e goes again ! ’ muttered the Old Stager , as the Computer Programmer was caught in the slips for 32 in our last match of the season . |
| 27 | In 1658 he was appointed vicar of Datchet , Buckinghamshire , where the parishioners complained that he was an absentee , but he was exonerated by the trustees for the maintenance of preaching ministers . |
| 28 | Earlier this week , the first television debate in a fascinating and closely-fought Virginia gubernatorial race was dominated by the arguments for a woman 's right to choose and a foetus 's right to life . |
| 29 | A second and more fundamental change occurred in the tenth and eleventh centuries in Europe and in the Islamic world , when lead was added to the ingredients for the inlay . |
| 30 | Captain John Nisbet fought in the battle and , although he escaped from the field , he was hunted by the Dragoons for the rest of his life . |