Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the courses listed , 5 were for English teachers , 15 were for Modern Language teachers , 1 for Primary teachers , 4 for a mixed group , 1 on ‘ Language Awareness ’ , 1 on ‘ Examining ’ , 1 on ‘ English Language ’ and 6 uninterpretable . |
| 2 | I believe that the figures that the hon. Lady gave earlier were for regional development grant rather than for regional selective assistance , which has been in existence for only about three years , as she will recall . |
| 3 | In particular , mothers were socioeconomically disadvantaged , younger , and more likely to smoke and their infants were of lower birth weight and more likely to share a bed with another person . |
| 4 | Complaints were of insufficient guitar strings , paints and brushes . |
| 5 | All were of normal body weight , taking a normal diet , and had a normal bowel habit . |
| 6 | In Howard Marine and Dredging Co Ltd v A Ogden and Sons ( Excavations ) Ltd [ 1978 ] QB 574 , a case decided under s3 of the 1967 Act , Lord Denning considered the following factors to be relevant : the parties were of equal bargaining position , the representation made was innocent , and in any case the plaintiffs had failed to prove that they had reasonable grounds for believing the truth of the statement . |
| 7 | In view of the high cost of property , the extent of the risk to a buyer if the survey report was negligent , the fact that the parties were of unequal bargaining power , the relatively low risk to the surveyor , and the fact that the parties would know that the buyer would be unlikely to obtain a second survey report , the clause was held to be unreasonable . |
| 8 | Among the most prominent London citizens of the period , those who were elected mayor more than once , only a minority were of certain London origin , such as Thomas Knolles ( 1399–1400 , 1410–11 ) , Nicholas Wotton ( 1415–16,1430–31 ) and Henry Barton ( 1416–17 , 1428–29 ) . |
| 9 | The screens were of ordinary wire mesh . |
| 10 | Although the new cars were of radical body design , they used conventional equipment of proven reliability which stood the test of time . |
| 11 | Its walls were of thick stone blocks and bulged and its low ceiling criss-crossed with smoke-blackened oak beams . |
| 12 | As a matter of fact we were like two atom bombs — we 'd go off together and there would be this tremendous explosion but we 'd come down together , too . |
| 13 | The sound system 's speakers were like upended steamer trunks , one on top of another ; standing so close , the volume gave her a sensation in her ears like that of tearing paper and she experienced a few moments of sensory overload before she recognised the tune as New York , New York . |
| 14 | Lacking the backing zeal of the last American hero , pulled out from Nam licking their wounds , they were like de-gutted bayonet dummies , crumpled paper tigers . |
| 15 | In no time their home-made faggots at 1½d each , Nelson cakes at 1d — they were like moist bread pudding with pastry at top and bottom , apple turnovers also at 1d each and similar items became more and more popular . |
| 16 | Kingdom 's words were like harsh daylight flooding into a photographer 's dark-room . |
| 17 | The probes used were against human CFTR exons 1–6 ( a-c and g-i ) or the hisD vector sequences ( d-f and j-l ) . |
| 18 | Respondents were also asked how satisfied they were with each decision-making process , and this was measured using the same seven point scale . |
| 19 | Rather they were with practical home skills and formal qualifications . |
| 20 | The highest levels of protein sequence homology were with human tenascin type III repeat 11 , mouse tenascin type III repeat 9 and chicken tenascin type III repeat 7 with 36% , 35% and 37% identity respectively . |
| 21 | ICI Fibres ' beginnings were with British Nylon Spinners [ BNS ] which was owned equally by ICI and Courtaulds and had grown out of a wartime industry . |
| 22 | The mates that I played football with were skinheads into Blue Beat while the girls were into that pop group The Love Affair . |
| 23 | Funerals were within living memory ceremonial rites engaging whole communities — blinds drawn down across the street , the pomp of plumed horses and the procession of followers , traffic momentarily halted , the bereaved publicly showing their sorrow for months in the long wearing of black afterwards ; monuments and cemeteries were focuses of family and civic pride ; fear of a pauper grave was so powerful that death insurance was by far the most widespread Victorian insurance policy . |
| 24 | Kikuyu farmers had traditionally farmed several plots which were within easy walking distance but had different characteristics of altitude and soil type . |
| 25 | Holliman agreed to drive Stirling 's team down on to the road and along it until they were within easy striking distance of the airfield at Sirte . |
| 26 | To recap , the winners have been men who were in internal labour markets in the big-name companies and the enterprise group networks . |
| 27 | ‘ If we were in Catholic west Belfast instead of Protestant north Belfast we would be treated differently . ’ |
| 28 | The large drone was beyond repair , but the two tenor drones were in good working order and , most important of all , the chanter was OK . |
| 29 | The prototype series of ten appeared from BREL Crewe Works with a collection of teething troubles , but were in regular passenger traffic to Leeds by the end of the year . |
| 30 | Network members were in many cases members of one or several scientific societies , each of which held regular lecture meetings , and more informal discussions . |