Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was always sort of open house and the nurses used to come in when they were off duty a lot . |
| 2 | Even so , the last two years of peace were for Baldwin a time of interest , enjoyment and even influence , compared with what was to come afterwards . |
| 3 | ‘ I met a gentleman once who said me legs were worth 'alf-a-crown a look . ’ |
| 4 | The ultimate objectives of this strategy were of course no different from those of previous post-war governments . |
| 5 | They were of course no different from good maintained grammar schools and owed their survival after 10/65 only to the anomaly created in 1926 and perpetuated in 1944 . |
| 6 | Our ‘ witchcrazed ’ ancestors , as so many of the older school of historians are apt to paint them , were of course no more crazy and no more mystical than the Zande — nor were they any less rational . |
| 7 | There were of course no telephones available to call a doctor and someone usually had to run or ride to call him out . |
| 8 | Those with significant property to leave were of course a minority . |
| 9 | The year went reasonably well but there were of course a few difficulties as you would expect from a new organisation . |
| 10 | Sermons and catechisms were of course the primary means of conversion , but images of angels with guns were useful symbols of important teachings of the church . |
| 11 | Chairman there were three areas of concern , the longer term objective were of course the bypass , that is some way into the future , the more the media is , that is concerned with traffic calming the more comprehensive traffic calming would be the subject of some in depth study who 'd defined exactly what pieces of , of traffic are most suitable for that village , but one element and that was to do with |
| 12 | Some of them were like babies the little babies |
| 13 | Second , he says that Jesus gave them power over unclean spirits , and that when they were under pressure the Spirit of their Father would speak within them ( 11:20 ) . |
| 14 | We can reveal exclusively that when Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were in London a few weeks ago they went shopping for baby clothes . |
| 15 | These ideas , pioneered in this country by Maxwell Jones , among others , were in part the outcome of studying the mental hospital as a social organization . |
| 16 | The problems of memory research , it seemed to me , were in part the problems of any new research field . |
| 17 | Until the creation of the standardised network , only 20 years ago , of worldwide seismic recorders , there were in operation a diverse and uncoordinated variety of instruments , run by a scattering of seismophiles . |
| 18 | Although the accounts were handled by a well-known firm , there were in addition a mountain of wage packets and simple book-keeping to be handled . |
| 19 | In former days there were in addition the church , a Primitive Methodist chapel and a Wesleyan chapel , these being no longer in use . |
| 20 | Since they were in bed the query was ambiguous , and might have had reference to what had gone before . |
| 21 | Since reports were in sign the lexical identification of individual items often derived from the other parameters . |
| 22 | There was a warmth about Sally that superseded all her amusing little vanities and softened the acid remarks she was prone to making — which were in reality a defence mechanism . |
| 23 | Isabel crouched against the wall , watching him as though he were in truth the wolf her imagination had conjured up , and waiting until her fluttering pulse had steadied before moving again . |
| 24 | There were in fact a variety of entrances to the grandparental role . |
| 25 | However , the average figure would need to be interpreted in the knowledge that substantial age variations were in fact a part of the ‘ normal pattern ’ . |
| 26 | Far from identifying a ‘ status group ’ , Wallis argues that in fact the WCTU were in fact a ‘ cultural group ’ . |
| 27 | There were in fact a small number of such Chetniks in Austria at the time , the 400 Montenegrins at Viktring , although there is no evidence that Gen Robertson was aware of their existence . |
| 28 | There were in fact a number of possible candidate keys , for example , ‘ module-name ’ and ‘ course-name ’ , but we chose the primary key as above . |
| 29 | Was there any feeling when these letters were received that they were to be taken seriously or they were in fact a bluff ? |
| 30 | It referred to the regional strategy which is currently out for consultation but was an emerging document and copies of that were again appended to the briefing paper it outlined the county council 's procedures which were followed in progress in the structure plan it outlined a programme establishing the weight of opinion of objectors it indicated our process in preparing policy amendments to be put to the panel and all those matters were made public It also requested the panel 's view on the role of county council members at the enquiry in public the responses to that were not made public and were in fact a question which was clearly put to the panel . |