Example sentences of "were [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After we left the police station we all had to go to hospital ; we were off work for weeks . |
| 2 | We had to look at where the opportunities were for development in Greater York as a whole rather than looking at individual district elements , and in terms of land available , erm Mr Steel appears to have included some sites which we classify as land held in reserve , which we do n't normally count towards the land availability targets , although we do acknowledge that it is there . |
| 3 | More fertilizer might mean more grain ( and more carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide to add to the greenhouse effect ) , but there obviously comes a point where more fertilizer does not mean a bigger yield or perhaps is not justified on cost grounds , particularly when grain prices are low , as they were for part of the 1980s . |
| 4 | Wigs were out of the question because of the cost , and most of the changes John asked for in the designs were for simplicity in making and comfort in wearing . |
| 5 | ‘ Most men wander out of the way , and fall into error for want of method , as it were for want of sowing and planting , that is , of improving the reason . ’ |
| 6 | The original contracts were for payment in dollars . |
| 7 | The claims were for restitution of land allegedly seized by the Japanese as mandatory power . |
| 8 | Spencer has always longed to have a Spitfire and one day Mike Searle , presumably having recovered from the shock of the Jungmann episode ( see the September issue , page 25 ) , pointed out an advertisement in which some Spitfires were for sale at Strathallan in Scotland . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 11 | Iraq denied that the cylinders were part of a gun and maintained that they were for use in the petrochemical industry . |
| 12 | According to the manufacturers of the forgings ( Societa della Fucine , a subsidiary of the Ilva state steel company ) they were for use in Iraq 's petrochemical industry . |
| 13 | They were for use by statesmen and diplomats , working aids for the men engaged in the conduct of international affairs . |
| 14 | The commonest reasons for referral were for examination of the chest , spine , and limbs and joints and referrals for these fell by 9.4% , 17.5% , and 13.5% respectively . |
| 15 | The highest referrals were for examination of the chest ( 8506 , 28% ) , limbs and joints ( 7666 , 25% ) , and spine ( 5224 , 17% ) . |
| 16 | The director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , Elizabeth Esteve-Coll immediately followed suit , unaffected by the fact that the proceeds were for research into Aids , the condition which killed Mapplethorpe in 1989 . |
| 17 | For example , the case of an actor ( Marbé v Edwardes ( George ) Daly 's Theatre [ 1929 ] 1 KB 269 ; Herbert Clayton and Jack Waller Ltd v Oliver [ 1930 ] AC 209 ; the claims in these cases were for breach of contract but the same principle applies in tort ) and the case of a professional golfer who had been prevented from taking part in competitions by his injury ( Mulvaine v Joseph ( 1968 ) 112 SJ 927 ) . |
| 18 | Boats were for hire by the hour and they had rowed on the lake . |
| 19 | The better view is that the Whigs were for Reform with various degrees of conviction and for a variety of reasons , ranging from that political expediency which saw in it a cause which would get and keep the Tories out , to that of moral principle . |
| 20 | Berisha told reporters that he had informed Genscher that Albania 's most urgent needs were for aid for agriculture and for help in solving transport problems . |
| 21 | you know er it helps if erm it helps if the groups that you 're comparing between there 's about sort of at least twenty people in each sort of thing , erm and the same goes for things like , things that you might want to do squares on or something like that erm so I mean if you were interested in comparing people who attended very regularly with people who only attended once in a while erm you know it would help if there were about sort of more than forty people altogether so that there was sort of , you know |
| 22 | The activities of illegal immigrant vessels were as manna from heaven to the media who naturally gave them much publicity . |
| 23 | It is one of the many strengths of Coetzee 's work that he recognizes the disruptive potential of the new organizations , but he concludes that ultimately they were of benefit to the Conservatives . |
| 24 | Two aspects of Wimpey Construction 's business were of benefit to us . |
| 25 | Mothers were generally confident enough about the product not to show much spontaneous concern , but these characteristics were of significance to them . |
| 26 | The Committee concluded , however , that whilst these factors were of relevance to sentencing , it was less clear that they could form an appropriate basis for distinguishing one offence from another . |
| 27 | At the outset , five hypotheses were selected prospectively on the grounds that they were refutable within the context of the study design , that they were of relevance to current duodenal ulcer research , or that they were of potential importance for both ulcer healing and ulcer recurrence . |
| 28 | Management-union relations were of course at the heart of many developments . |
| 29 | This was not a greenhouse as we know it ; in the eighteenth century these buildings were of brick with large windows . |
| 30 | And it concentrated on the famous sites , the ones that amused the excursionists — while ignoring the thousands of lesser earthworks that were of value to the scientific archaeologist . |