Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an indication of how low Kylie 's emotional defences were during this crisis that — just for once — the intensely personal details of her life suddenly came gushing out , as if to exorcise some spirit that was within her . |
| 2 | Though if they were for young William or for herself , she could not be sure . |
| 3 | With this view , the Conservatives in the inter-war period were for small-scale government and low taxes — the less done by government , the better and cheaper . |
| 4 | No , the ones at the front of the store were for seventy P and they were marked firmed tomatoes , the others at the back were sixty P and they did n't say firm on them so I thought well , firm probably means hard , I 'll get the , get the others , so I 'll skinned a couple of them for tea |
| 5 | I think that I am correct in saying that the two original high level computer languages were Cobol and Prolog , which were for developing business and general/scientific applications respectively . |
| 6 | Freud always said that his conceptualizations of the instincts were for specific purposes and could be further developed and altered later on , as indeed they were . |
| 7 | There were three failures ( 30% ) in the Crohn 's group ( all three were for pelvic sepsis and fistula ) and a further three failures ( 30% ) in the indeterminate colitis group ( one for fistula , one for recurrent pouchitis , and one because of incapacitating diarrhoea ) compared with nine failures ( 15% ) in the ulcerative colitis patients ( six for ischaemia , two for recurrent pouchitis , and one for poor functional results ) ( relative risk 2.03 ( 96% CI 0.81 to 5.10 ) ) . |
| 8 | I thought they were for sore throats and things Gary ? |
| 9 | Only 87,300 grants were paid last year and 42,000 of those were for minor repairs or facilities for disabled people . |
| 10 | They stayed where they were for another minute or so , although Jack had to practically hold Ho down while they waited . |
| 11 | No one thought the speaker should have added that they would not hew wood for Lord Salisbury ; the divisions within the Council which would become so painfully evident over the Boer War were between Gladstonian Liberals and Liberal Imperialists , with the odd Liberal Unionist added for decoration , not between Liberals and Conservatives . |
| 12 | About 85pc of SIDs happened to babies aged less than six months , of which 60pc were between one month and four months . |
| 13 | Mice were between three weeks and three months old . |
| 14 | Bill Beeby , of Boeing Aircraft Co in the United States , in his description of their search for an integrated manufacturing system , claims that they were nearest that goal when the firm was first set up to make sports planes for their wealthy owner . |
| 15 | The assembled guests well knew they were after bigger quarry than hare or stag and it the small town of Kirkmichael , Mar , on Tuesday 6 September , formally proclaimed James King of England , Scotland and , as tradition required , France , a poor return for all the help the Bourbons had given to the Jacobite cause . |
| 16 | While the Muslims were after captives , the Spanish were after tribute-paying subjects and converts . |
| 17 | There was mention of some art history work , a few articles for various journals and a cataloguing job for one of the museums but it was clear that for Maidstone these were of little importance and did not really qualify for the title of job . |
| 18 | To his right wing the hills sloped gently down and were of little interest but on his left they formed a steep escarpment up whose side came a soaring wind . |
| 19 | As a useless item , the name was extended to city dwellers who were of little use when unleashed in the countryside . |
| 20 | Lip-reading skills were of little use because her vocabulary had almost died of starvation . |
| 21 | It is not quite clear what he meant by this ; the point may well be not that the new kings — Eardwulf in Northumbria , and Coenwulf in Mercia — were of non-royal stock but that they were not of the lineage , respectively , of Aethelred and Offa — but it could easily be construed as a slur . |
| 22 | They were established in increasing numbers from the 1830s and were of varying size and kind . |
| 23 | The 10 workshops trial tested were of varying lengths but collectively the time required for completion was 6 working days so a considerable degree of commitment was required from all concerned . |
| 24 | However , looked at from the perspective of the 1980s , it is not at all clear that groups which styled themselves upon Mussolini 's movement in the 1920s were of greater significance than certain more obscure British nationalist organizations of the period , since these provided crucial financial and ideological legacies for later gener-ations of British fascists , most notably anti-semitism . |
| 25 | Moreover , research rather suggested that the former groups mounted one-off campaigns targeted at parliament or public opinion , whereas the latter groups ( and especially the trade unions and employers associations ) were of greater power and were likely to be in regular day-to-day contact with ministers , government , and the permanent administrative side of the state machine . |
| 26 | In Wales the nature of the war was largely dominated by physical factors : in mountainous territory foot soldiers were of greater use than heavy cavalry would ever be . |
| 27 | Within the overall range , the overwhelming majority of the structures were of simple design and type , conforming to the traditions and materials of individual regions . |
| 28 | Note that the average is surprisingly low for the year 1300 ( at the top of the graph ) ; but in this year we know of complaints from the king that the dies were of poor quality and made of soft metal |
| 29 | The RUC said the notes were of poor quality and did have a water mark . |
| 30 | These children had completed their preparatory year and were of normal intelligence but severe physical problems prohibited them from entering regular school . |