Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were off Burnmouth by sunrise , where the rowers rested awhile , for Ramsay had bargained with the fishermen to take them onward to Dunbar , in a repetition of the previous escape . |
| 2 | Mostly they were for acts of right and grace , for example the granting of overdue wages or expenses , but a significant minority concerned complaints against royal and other officers . |
| 3 | ‘ Most men wander out of the way , and fall into error for want of method , as it were for want of sowing and planting , that is , of improving the reason . ’ |
| 4 | If it were for students in Writing , Publishing and Communications then more emphasis is likely to be given to editorial aids and to the structure of the publishing industry . |
| 5 | The claims were for restitution of land allegedly seized by the Japanese as mandatory power . |
| 6 | Erm members may also remember that er for the schemes that came forward on Franklyns were a result of a er , an advertisement being placed three of the schemes put forward erm , were for sale of equity share , one was put forward which came er , to the last meeting in this committee which was a rented scheme erm , but was for people for members took a view the erm the Environment Trust scheme er would prove a better option er , in Harlow . |
| 7 | For example , the case of an actor ( Marbé v Edwardes ( George ) Daly 's Theatre [ 1929 ] 1 KB 269 ; Herbert Clayton and Jack Waller Ltd v Oliver [ 1930 ] AC 209 ; the claims in these cases were for breach of contract but the same principle applies in tort ) and the case of a professional golfer who had been prevented from taking part in competitions by his injury ( Mulvaine v Joseph ( 1968 ) 112 SJ 927 ) . |
| 8 | Berisha told reporters that he had informed Genscher that Albania 's most urgent needs were for aid for agriculture and for help in solving transport problems . |
| 9 | The Italian city states , and others , were for centuries in conflict in the Mediterranean over sources of , and outlets for , trade . |
| 10 | The activities of illegal immigrant vessels were as manna from heaven to the media who naturally gave them much publicity . |
| 11 | They were past Jedburgh by noon , and Ramsay , who now was in country he knew fairly intimately , pointed out that in another ten miles they would be out of Teviotdale , with Teviot joining Tweed at Roxburgh and Kelso . |
| 12 | The biggest sales were of works by classic , early twentieth-century artists : Richard Gray Gallery of Chicago sold six works in the ‘ mid to high six figures ’ , including paintings by Picasso and Paul Klee , and a rare early alabaster sculpture by Henry Moore . |
| 13 | The Committee concluded , however , that whilst these factors were of relevance to sentencing , it was less clear that they could form an appropriate basis for distinguishing one offence from another . |
| 14 | That were of piece of bind that come out and it was shaped like a pear , 'bout a ton in weight , easy . |
| 15 | For Linnaeus the varieties of men were like breeds of dog , different in their appearance , different in their manifest behaviour , but indifferently equal in their moral quality . |
| 16 | Carrie 's thoughts were like bits of jigsaw , whirling round in her head . |
| 17 | It was a freezing cold day and her feet were like blocks of ice after the session in the yard . |
| 18 | Rice , too , in river outlets to the Pacific that were like oases of green in the waste of sand that fringed the coast . |
| 19 | People , woodpeckers , nuthatches , tree-creepers and flycatchers , foxes and badgers , hedgehogs and other creatures all took sanctuary in orchards which were like symbols of harmony between human beings and nature . |
| 20 | I suppose he just felt people ought to know what things were like people down South , you know . |
| 21 | His words were like drops of ice , and every one hurt her more than she could have believed possible . |
| 22 | She tried to rip herself away from him then , but his arms were like bands of iron around her . |
| 23 | They were like generals in command of armies , receiving , sorting , dispatching thousands of vehicles in an irregular flow , fighting their great enemy , blockade . |
| 24 | They had broken covenant with God by disobeying his laws and were under sentence of death . |
| 25 | Both stations , manned by part-timers , were under threat of closure some years ago but massive campaigns secured their future . |
| 26 | The authorities confirmed on June 21 that investigations were under way in connection with an alleged coup plot planned by the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement ( AWB ) involving the assassination of , among others , de Klerk and five Cabinet ministers ; acts of sabotage , including the destruction of power stations and poisoning of Soweto 's drinking water , were to be carried out to create chaos and anarchy prior to the coup . |
| 27 | The village brook overflowed with such force that cars were washed away , and homes were under feet of water . |
| 28 | Three general strikes paralysed the public and private sectors on Sept. 3 , Sept. 9-10 and Sept. 16 in protest at social security reforms which were under debate in parliament . |
| 29 | The authorities later specified that certain French residents in Chad were under suspicion in connection with the Feb. 21 incident , and on March 31 the French government repatriated " for security reasons " four French citizens working on official co-operation projects . |
| 30 | Both the girls were under age for drinking , but knew they 'd be served without any trouble . |