Example sentences of "was [noun sg] [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 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 So it was kind of energy conservation , yes
13 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 .
14 Likewise , there was unity of time in that each of their interests arose simultaneously and was expressed to endure for six months .
15 It was abhorrence of waste of any kind of resource that motivated him .
16 In the BUF itself there was money for propaganda publications , including Action , Blackshirt , Fascist Weekly and Fascist Quartetly .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 His father was Vicar of Dent and Adam spent his boyhood there .
22 There was opportunity for maladministration in terms of both efficiency and peculation .
23 Government reports made few important references to the human capital concept and on the rare occasion that they did , there was division of opinion .
24 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 .
25 Finally , there was freedom of assembly :
26 Dissent was not a fundamental right of Spaniards , nor was freedom of expression .
27 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 .
28 For them its most significant feature was freedom from fear .
29 The outline above suggests that agnathans are a paraphyletic group ( that is , some are more closely related to jawed vertebrates than to other agnathans ) and therefore the presence of circular mouths and pouch-like gills was part of gnathostome history .
30 He had laughed , simultaneously mocking the stupidity of government by cosmetics and confessing that he was also a part of it , just as he was part of government by voice coach and acting coach .
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