Example sentences of "was [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But unfortunately I was off school on March the twelfth so I missed the party and everything . |
| 2 | OEEC demonstrated how easy it was for policies of coordination to clash with national wishes and interests . |
| 3 | Flying was thrilling and romantic and taking to the air was for women of spirit while those who stayed on the ground had feet of clay . |
| 4 | This Wednesday was for women in business , computers and design , but no one seemed to care . |
| 5 | Corporate liberty , even of the most exalted kind , could never be for Anselm , as it was for Hugh of Lyons , the mainspring of his whole life . |
| 6 | The preliminary draft of Article 1 did in fact contain , in the English text only , an explanatory gloss to the word ‘ evidence ’ as ‘ including the taking of statements of witnesses , parties or experts and the production or examination of documents or other objects or property ’ ; its eventual omission was for reasons of style rather than of substance . |
| 7 | The new version claimed that this was for reasons of efficiency rather than a political move , although Vagnorius had expressed concern about former communist links and obstruction of policy . |
| 8 | Dr Carrington 's insurance coverage was for $50,0000 per course of treatment . |
| 9 | It is then possible to see how much room there was for choice of strategies in terms of competitiveness and jobs . |
| 10 | St Osyth 's College of Education at Clacton-on-Sea proposed a BEd in 1969 and by December of the following year it had been turned down on the grounds that the College did not have an ‘ appropriate academic structure ’ , more thought about the objectives of the course ( it was for teachers of Home Economics ) was needed , the staff needed strengthening , the library expanding and laboratory facilities improving . |
| 11 | The biggest award was for £150,000 to Ullaspool , a company set up to raise funds to build a new swimming pool at Ullapool . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The bacon-curing business was for sale for £l00,000 so assuming that he could finance the remainder he engaged an accountant to check over the books of the existing business and report back to him . |
| 14 | I was able to talk to the German customer and the people on the floor , who are excessively worried about the number of people coming in from the East , not only East Germany but they 're very , very worried about people coming in from Eastern Europe , and secondly there was so much East European food that was for sale in Germany at very low prices and there 's food that used to go to the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | A 2,000 lb van bomb , left outside the Forensic Science Laboratories , wrecked 750 homes in the Belvoir estate — although the biggest repair bill was for Coleraine at £14m . |
| 16 | The next most common request was for training in County Court preparation , tribunals and employment issues . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But Bradford coach Peter Fox said the bid was for £60,000 plus prop Steve Molloy and centre Carl Gibson . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The NRA had to put booms across the Dee at the iron bridge on the Grosvenor Estate to try to contain the fuel , to which a red dye had been added to denote that it was for use in farm vehicles only . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I know it 's , I knew it was Needham Station and it was between station to station , you see , not er anything to do with the public but that 's where I learnt so we used to er take er messages from station to station and I used to speak to the girl at Merrith down the line . |
| 25 | A spokesman , Col Fred Peck , said the fighting was between supporters of Omer Jess , who controls Kismayu , and about 150 infiltrators loyal to warlord Mohamed Said Hersi , known as Morgan . |
| 26 | The fighting was between guerrillas from Abu Nidal 's Fatah Revolutionary Council ( FRC ) and Fatah fighters loyal to the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) Chairman Yassir Arafat . |
| 27 | The first or these was through control over matters of taste . |
| 28 | One way in which attitudes towards and categorization of black pupils was fostered was through gossip among staff . |
| 29 | Its only value was as entertainment in movie houses . |
| 30 | For instance , a book on the influence of religious tradition on the education of women in Britain and India might include substantial chapters or whole sections on Hinduism , Buddhism and Christianity ; if the indexer therefore indexed HINDUISM , BUDDHISM , CHRISTIANITY , RELIGION , EDUCATION , WOMEN , INDIA , BRITAIN , the later combination of individual facets such as HINDUISM and BRITAIN might suggest , falsely , that the book was about Hinduism in Britain when in fact it was nothing of the kind . |