Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every one of the dairy farmers expressed concern in particular those who had purchased a farm in the past two or three years and were dairying in order to repay the purchase loan . |
| 2 | These were not just domestic problems but were part of Britain 's larger task of achieving recovery in its international economic position ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 3 | ABSEILING , log-walking and rafting were part of Operation Challenge , a three-day adventure to develop team-building at Taubmans in Australia . |
| 4 | His team , said Rowell , had come to accept that rucking and raking were part of New Zealand rugby . |
| 5 | The Moroccan Interior Minister Driss Basri declared that the Sahrawi people were part of Morocco and that their inclusion in elections would in no way prejudice the later holding of a referendum on the future of the Western Sahara . |
| 6 | All those treasures were part of Russia 's heritage . |
| 7 | They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back . |
| 8 | ‘ Some pupils came in time to like it ; not simply because the outbursts were part of Lewis ‘ act ’ , but because he was conscientious teacher , who was concerned , as the Great Knock had been , to wage war on sloppy language and sloppy thinking . |
| 9 | Sir David Alliance , Coats chairman , said the sales were part of Coats ' continuing policy of disposing of peripheral activities that do not fit in the long term strategy of the group . |
| 10 | Sermons , extemporary prayer and psalms were part of Bunyan 's military training . |
| 11 | The exploits of football hooligans would probably be praised if they were part of resistance to an invading army . |
| 12 | Somervillians Rachel Sylvester and Sophie Wright were part of Cherwell 's editorial team and Cressida Heyes and Sarah Joyce were joint editors of Amazon . |
| 13 | In fact timbers rarely survive to be discovered on archaeological sites , and when they do they are not always in good enough condition to be used for dating ; furthermore , if they were part of timber structures and had been shaped , not enough of the ring pattern may survive . |
| 14 | Colonel Odling-Smee was the officer commanding the Fifth Buffs which were part of V Corps in southern Austria . |
| 15 | You know and I and I 've only recently really come to terms with how much tha those early songs were part of people 's upbringing and because of Love Hurts and everything people come up to me a lot in the street and we talk about the sixties and everything . |
| 16 | The court hearing which convicted both men was told by ex-Swindon manager Lou Macari irregular payments were part of soccer routine . |
| 17 | THE REMAINING THREE MEN WERE PART OF E C 'S CREW . |
| 18 | Mrs. LEAPOR 'S whole Library consisted of about sixteen or seventeen single Volumes , among which were Part of Mr. Pope 's Works , Dryden 's Fables , some Volumes of Plays , & c . |
| 19 | ABOVE Emil Du Bois-Reymond , the 19th-century German physiologist who showed that muscular nerve impulses were a–in to electricity . |
| 20 | Ramsey 's own preferred subjects were literature versus science as making for happiness , modern democracy , and internationalism , in which he denounced American isolationism and had an imaginative picture of the American Middle West as a lot of boors who did not know where Europe was . |
| 21 | They should be reminded that the major investors coming into Ogwr borough , and Bridgend in particular , were Ford of Bridgend , which was brought in under Jim Callaghan 's Labour Government , and the Japanese company , Sony , which was also brought in by a Labour Government . |
| 22 | I 've been flung into a filthy cell with a lot of other poor wretches as if I were sack of coals being emptied into a cellar . " |
| 23 | WHAT would you do if you were chairman of Hongkong and Shanghai Bank ? |
| 24 | Men of this stature were onset by others whose status , if not questionable , shows that the meaning of yeoman was passing through a transitional stage . |
| 25 | Well I think it 's sorry I do n't think it will serve any purpose people actually get up and make character assassinations of other people and when were talk in terms of I said You said and He said I do n't think that 's a productive way to conduct the evening 's business . . |
| 26 | Therefore , even if two reactive fragments were side by side in a solid argon matrix , there would not necessarily be enough thermal energy to overcome the barrier and reform the precursor . |
| 27 | They were side by side , and she rolled on to her back , arched herself to receive him as she stretched her legs outwards and clasped them round him . |
| 28 | But he knew his chief 's dislike of unnecessary chat , and strapped as they were side by side in uncomfortably close proximity in the Enstrom F28 , he decided that the Chevisham case would get off to the most propitious start by a policy of disciplined silence . |
| 29 | Duncan and Lisburn 's Neil McGrann were side by side after 50 metres , but it was the Ards swimmer who produced that little bit extra and came home a comfortable winner in a time of 1.10.13 . |
| 30 | Now the ration per airman , meagre as it may have been , was four times for an officer — ie 4lb every other day , The coal compounds were side by side , and whilst the officers ' compound was generally well filled . |