Example sentences of "was [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is then possible to see how much room there was for choice of strategies in terms of competitiveness and jobs . |
| 2 | Another was for portfolios of firms to be owned not by a pension fund but by a specialist financial or management group : Kohlberg , Kravis , Roberts or Hanson , which buy , break up and set strict financial controls for what remains ; Clayton & Dubilier or Forstmann Little , which exert direct supervision over managers ; Berkshire Hathaway , which is a more remote but patient investor . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That means it was for use in climates and countries so benign that the natives require no shelter at all , and where a tent is more or less a decorative affectation . |
| 5 | The only contraception that was on offer ( though sporadically ) was for use by men , whose interests were arguably better served by the birth of another son than by their wives ' good health . |
| 6 | But Mr Roberts said his company 's dividend was worth £3m to shareholders in one year , while the package of tariff cuts would cost the company £7m . |
| 7 | Our table felt it was worth £20 of tickets for a woman to put her hand up and show him the error of his ways , but we 'd already forked out enough , honest . |
| 8 | The first or these was through control over matters of taste . |
| 9 | The roof was of shingle with planks nailed over . |
| 10 | The only shortfall , he said , was of facilities for patients with very difficult and challenging behaviour . |
| 11 | As they flew over the capital , returning the Archon to the Imperial Palace , the sight below was of units of soldiers fighting hand to hand battles with other military units . |
| 12 | Watching actors in animal costume making their sophisticated jokes was like proof of anthropologists ' statements , as typified by Frazer in that same conclusion to The Dying God , where he stated that serious rites had become idle amusement , mummeries , and childish games . |
| 13 | ‘ It was like men against boys , ’ he said . |
| 14 | And they had flats in London and there was like sort of guys like Peter there . |
| 15 | In this paper Cayley 's concern was with systems of elements satisfying the equation unc and for both n = 4 and n = 6 he showed that there is essentially just one other system besides the set of complex nth roots of unity . |
| 16 | The night before she had had calmly ‘ booked out ’ a personal protection weapon after , it is understood , telling a senior member of staff that she feared she was under surveillance from paramilitaries . |
| 17 | The profession was well aware of its tenuous position and the Council of the Law Society was under pressure from members to defend their favoured status and the scale fee , a form of price fixing , for assessing the charge to clients . |
| 18 | Planning Minister Mohammed Ould Michel emphasized that the devaluation was in accordance with agreements recently signed with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and was part of a four-year economic restructuring programme . |
| 19 | That was in accordance with instructions they were given . |
| 20 | This was in accordance with police procedure . |
| 21 | I was in floods of tears . |
| 22 | ‘ It was a beautiful ceremony — the mother was in floods of tears , ’ says Margaret . |
| 23 | ‘ When he came to the hospital after seeing Buster he was in floods of tears , heaving great sobs . |
| 24 | But sometimes the Earl would ring me at home at night and ask me to drive back to Althorp because the Countess was in floods of tears . |
| 25 | She was in love with Piers , and , now that she had accepted the agony of knowing that her love was n't returned , maybe she could fight for him , could fight to win his heart , because it was silly to assume that he had some sort of woman in his life simply because the astrologer , a girl hardly older than herself , had implied as much . |
| 26 | He knew that Richard , like him , was in love with words . |
| 27 | At the very end of his life there was also a suggestion that he was in receipt of bribes for the release of prisoners at Newgate , though this allegation seems not to have been proved . |
| 28 | At the request of the army the Collective State Presidency again held an extraordinary session on May 7 which was attended by Marcovic and the Kadijevic but not by Tudjman , who was in London for talks with United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd . |
| 29 | May : May 8-11 ; in a tour in support of Middle East peace talks , Bessmertnykh visited Damascus , Tel Aviv ( the first trip to Israel by a Soviet Foreign Minister since the state was founded in 1948 ) , Amman and Cairo ; May 15-19 : the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , Jiang Zemin , visited Moscow for talks on Sino-Soviet relations ; May 15 : Lev Voronin , a former deputy Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers , was appointed ambassador to the EC ; May 27 : the last Soviet troops on active duty in Czechoslovakia were withdrawn ; May 28-31 : Primakov was in Washington for talks with US leaders and World Bank and IMF officials to discuss Western aid . |
| 30 | Khan was in Washington for talks with United States officials during which he repeated undertakings not to explode a nuclear weapon or transfer nuclear technology to other countries . |