Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the Welsh population in percentage terms is now rising more rapidly than that of England and therefore by the year two thousand and one when the next review would take place er we er will certainly fully occupy if you like , that fifth seat in terms of the average size because Welsh Euro constituencies were during the past ten years , very slightly larger on average than those in England and so er we are moving from under representation to slight over representation for a temporary period er simply because er you know Wales is regarded as indivisible for this purpose and that 's why we welcomed this debate . |
| 2 | Complaints are likely to rise , even though the sound levels may be lower than they were during the relative ‘ boom ’ days before the recession . |
| 3 | ‘ We consider training to be crucial and we are spending more on it now than we were during the last recession , ’ he said . |
| 4 | And erm we used to go into the assembly hall every morning for prayer and then we should just go up to the erm we we used to go upstairs to the er to the classrooms which were off a long corridor . |
| 5 | Fraser 's party arrived back on 23 December , but there was only time for a brief celebration , as Stirling , Mayne and Lewes were off the following morning for another series of raids . |
| 6 | ROUND the world yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnson and his crew were off the southern coast of Brazil yesterday as they maintained their challenge for the Jules Verne Trophy . |
| 7 | ‘ = and they were going to stay there for a few weeks until their faces were off the front pages and they could tiptoe away . |
| 8 | In the modern age , institutions outside the family have been created to administer public affairs and women were for a long time expressly excluded . |
| 9 | The provisional Cost Allowances for the accommodation were for a 24-bed unit 430,000 and for a 30-bed unit £500,000 . |
| 10 | His responsibilities were for a single grey pony bound for a Kuwaiti Sheikh . |
| 11 | The forecasts were for a 28 per cent increase between 1983 and 1993 ( although the demographic shifts noted above may reduce this ) , and indeed by 1989 the increase was already 19 per cent . |
| 12 | This does not show up in the household statistics because many of these stays were for a brief few months right at the end of life . |
| 13 | Both of them were for a free market , the introduction of Lithuania 's own currency and withdrawal of Russian troops . |
| 14 | My original thoughts were for a 3-week tour but after consideration and discussion a longer period seems preferable ; I 'm therefore thinking of 8 weeks , from mid-Feb. to mid-April , but of course if your time is limited you could return independently . |
| 15 | I remember a morning like that in Derbyshire … a morning with so much Day-Glo orange cardboard sprouting on poles from so many fields that by 11am I was near suicide — a mood that ended with the discovery that the posters were for a popular brand of fertiliser . |
| 16 | The principal demands were for a 50 per cent increase in wages and pensions , a six-hour working day ( and no night-shifts ) for women , and the bringing to justice of those responsible for the deaths in Shkodër in April [ see p. 38160 ] . |
| 17 | Goram , exceptional throughout his reintroduction to the side , was forced to muddy his tracksuit bottoms in response to the first of Amokachi 's many attacks on the break and the more Rangers pressed forward , the more gaps there were for the Belgian side to exploit from a midfield they dominated . |
| 18 | While everyone agreed the changes in living standards since the film was made were for the better , there was some nostalgia for farming as it was when they were young . |
| 19 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 20 | The first lots to come into the ring were for the annual lease of ewes . |
| 21 | Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff . |
| 22 | The local transmissions of the External Service were for the many expatriates working in the country who understood little or no Swahili . |
| 23 | There were some comparatively small reductions to the Housing Benefit budget but the major savings — which ran into billions of pounds — were for the 1990s and the next century . |
| 24 | So far as the privately rented sector was concerned , the government 's proposals were for the automatic decontrol of all dwellings with a rateable value over £40 in London and over £30 in the rest of England and Wales . |
| 25 | And the new tears were for the absolute tenderness she had seen in his eyes . |
| 26 | They were for the gentle grey shirehorse , whose death he blamed on himself . |
| 27 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 28 | All this depended on the fact that the Romans were for the first time in the law of succession experiencing an ‘ open ’ system . |
| 29 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 30 | This demand was indeed radical since women were for the first time trying to achieve some independence as persons and to exercise some power as individuals in their own right . |