Example sentences of "was [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , while there was support for hunger marches and the General Strike , there was nearly always an emphasis placed upon the constitutional nature of such conflict and , in any case , the working-class interests were always operated through the trade unions to the Labour Party , which emphasized its acceptance of parliamentary politics . |
| 2 | There was support for coalition in the North and in Scotland , where local cooperation was pushing back municipal socialism in 1920–21 , and also in Birmingham , where Austen Chamberlain traded on the family name and Neville brooded uneasily on the course of events . |
| 3 | It was cos it was change of contract . |
| 4 | First a sermon was preached by the Provost of Eton , Dr Cole , in which he explained that , although Cranmer had recanted , his life was forfeit in retribution for those of More and Fisher . |
| 5 | But the committee was hopelessly divided on what it meant by Christian hope — whether it was hope for peace and perfection in this world , or hope for a future life , or hope only of forgiveness at the last . |
| 6 | Also prohibited was payment of ransom or protection money to the guerrillas by farmers and businesspeople ; companies proved to have paid such money would lose their operating licences . |
| 7 | In 1989-90 expenditure in the north of England was £1,707 per head . |
| 8 | Hospital doctors said Rod was minutes from death when they gave him emergency injections . |
| 9 | It was random dates — it was n't properly organised , it was just eight dates — and to bring thirty people over was kind of lunatic . |
| 10 | Which was kind of Gran ; but as she went into the office and picked up the phone , she was aware of an unusual pang of nerves . |
| 11 | That was the one thing that was that I read in the books that it was kind of tradition for the men to wear black . |
| 12 | My mother and father both encouraged me in my playing , but I was n't encouraged to get into the business because they knew it was kind of tough . |
| 13 | It was kind of dark , and apparently what happened to this , towards the end of the period of parental investment , when the parents come back to feed the ducklings , they insist on the ducklings following them . |
| 14 | So it was kind of energy conservation , yes |
| 15 | The feature they came to have in common was occupancy of land in South Kensington purchased with the profits from the 1851 Exhibition at the Crystal Palace . |
| 16 | Likewise , there was unity of time in that each of their interests arose simultaneously and was expressed to endure for six months . |
| 17 | It was abhorrence of waste of any kind of resource that motivated him . |
| 18 | In the BUF itself there was money for propaganda publications , including Action , Blackshirt , Fascist Weekly and Fascist Quartetly . |
| 19 | The agency 's allegations have not been supported by other major conservation groups , although Buff Bohlen , a World Wide Fund for Nature official , said he was concerned over what he believed was money from business trading in illegally poached ivory going to support the secretariat 's work . |
| 20 | Obviously considerable improvement in passenger handling performance was experience on completion of the installation and the special requirements of baggage handling were accommodated by providing the facility of selectively removing a specific lift from the group at required times . |
| 21 | Mr Mellish said it was believed relatively small explosive devices were used and the aim of the bombers was damage to property and to achieve publicity , rather than to cause injuries . |
| 22 | The storm also caused a landslide in the Tywyn and Bryncrug area of South Meirionnydd , where there was damage to property and part of the track of the narrow gauge Tal y Llyn Railway . |
| 23 | His father was Vicar of Dent and Adam spent his boyhood there . |
| 24 | There was opportunity for maladministration in terms of both efficiency and peculation . |
| 25 | Government reports made few important references to the human capital concept and on the rare occasion that they did , there was division of opinion . |
| 26 | There was division in UNTCOK whether it could accomplish anything in the circumstances ; some members felt it should report the impossibility of proceeding but others believed that it could make limited progress . |
| 27 | Finally , there was freedom of assembly : |
| 28 | Dissent was not a fundamental right of Spaniards , nor was freedom of expression . |
| 29 | The most important consideration was freedom of action ; an understandable response , as childbearing may be regarded as equivalent to a fifteen-year sentence of partial house arrest , without remission for good behaviour . |
| 30 | For them its most significant feature was freedom from fear . |