Example sentences of "was [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last criterion was applied in the Charter Consolidated Ltd/Anderson Strathclyde Ltd Report ( 1982 ) , where the concern was for the effects of the merger on employment in an area of Scotland which already had high unemployment . |
| 2 | Time and again in England and Wales , the company that bought the bus undertaking in the first instance proved to be only a halfway house to resales , mergers and splits , and all the time the very last consideration was for the interests of the travelling public . |
| 3 | Interestingly , at the time of Burgess ' model , Sneinton and Radford were still on the outskirts of the city and this housing was for the workers at the Players , clothing , and Raleigh factories . |
| 4 | The nearest clean water was from the standpipe in the churchyard ; they did not like to wash their finds there , because the water was for the flowers on the graves , but Martha fetched some in a bucket . |
| 5 | He maintained that the death of Christ was for the sins of all men against the first covenant . |
| 6 | It was during the floods in 1984 when lots of people lost their crops and there was no work for them . |
| 7 | The British Tommy 's good humour will be appreciated by the Burman of today as it was during the days of the Rangoon riots in 1939 . |
| 8 | Johnson 's prowess was quickly recognised and , when the first representative match was staged between the Southern League and the Football League , on 11 April 1910 at Stamford Bridge ( Y-2 ) , it was our man who was between the posts for the Southern League . |
| 9 | It was between the wars in 1933 that Gavin Morton became sole partner . |
| 10 | The traditional choice , which Gassendi outlines , was between the senses on the one hand , and the mind , understanding , or reason on the other . |
| 11 | At one time it was thought that the brain reached its peak of potential performance when the individual was between the ages of 18 and 25 years and that , from that time onwards , it began to deteriorate . |
| 12 | If the proprietor was between the ages of 50 and 60 in 1952 , at least 50% of his vineyard must be planted with authorised varieties . |
| 13 | That was about the chances of Britain producing any sort of major champion , let alone a world champion . |
| 14 | You can see how completely unconcerned this brutal man was about the feelings of the members of his family . |
| 15 | Because I was joking I 'd said to her erm about er , you know my daddy right is er you know , th right , you know mum and daddy lived in Edinburgh and I was saying that my daddy was about the fees in erm Gleneagles , my daddy 's er , a member of Gleneagles |
| 16 | There was one based on Proust and one based on Zola , and the winner was about the ghosts of a haunted house being disturbed by an estate agent and a gang of would-be mortgage slaves . |
| 17 | My first published piece of nature writing was about the pinewoods of Abernethy . |
| 18 | People who had persuaded him that the only safe time to take out the dog was after the hours of darkness , when you were only likely to meet George ‘ Let's Get Rabbits ’ Grover . |
| 19 | Her door was set back so that she did n't see him until he was past the cars in the centre of the courtyard . |
| 20 | Here the new building is redolent of the symbols of commercial architecture — polished marble , hi-tech glazing , stepped cube facades — as the old one was of the values of its age . |
| 21 | Talk was of the mysteries of tension ribbing … and men . |
| 22 | In the following month his was amongst the names of twenty foreign professors to receive the Micheliano Catalogo and in 1758 he appeared on a list of those to receive a consignment of seeds . |
| 23 | The passage outside was unlike the ones on the floor above . |
| 24 | The window blinds were down and he had a feeling that he was behind the scenes in a theatre . |
| 25 | It was against the laws of nature , unnatural . |
| 26 | Especially he was against the Americans with what he called in speeches , ‘ their Mafia-style methods in business … ’ |
| 27 | At one institution a group of medical officers argued that it was against the interests of most long-term hospital residents with chronic illnesses to be resettled in community units . |
| 28 | The glow from the furnace in the steam-filled room was like the flames of hell licking out to show her the place where her father had gone . |
| 29 | She was like the photographs of Hollywood film stars that she had seen once in an old copy of Picturegoer . |
| 30 | It was like the changing-rooms of a thousand football clubs , or schools for that matter . |