Example sentences of "were [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During 1963 , at the central police station on the research division , 76 per cent of the 611 arrests made by uniformed men were for offences against the public order such as vagrancy , loitering , and above all drunkenness … |
| 2 | Mostly they were for acts of right and grace , for example the granting of overdue wages or expenses , but a significant minority concerned complaints against royal and other officers . |
| 3 | These advertisements were for posters at that time and used.mainly to back up TV commercials . |
| 4 | If it were for students in Writing , Publishing and Communications then more emphasis is likely to be given to editorial aids and to the structure of the publishing industry . |
| 5 | An interviewee of the Holman group observed , ‘ My experience as a child care officer was that some of the worst adoption breakdowns and problems were for kids in their adolescence . ’ |
| 6 | Important as they were for historians of the future , and as a source for scholarship generally , public records generated less political and academic controversy then than later . |
| 7 | The pipefitters ' main responsibilities were for aspects of the plant 's infrastructure rather than for particular machines . |
| 8 | The Italian city states , and others , were for centuries in conflict in the Mediterranean over sources of , and outlets for , trade . |
| 9 | Their only public actions were as women of a family substituting for a man , most often for its head . |
| 10 | There we were as representatives of this city , people who are in contact with erm people who have got problems , we were |
| 11 | A team led by Basil Rose used a cloud chamber to measure the momentum of the neutrons coming from Zeta 's plasma , the measurements which they made in the spring of 1958 , showed that the fusion reactions producing them were between nuclei with on average a net directed momentum . |
| 12 | Many urban liaisons were between partners from different tribes , and such marriages were rarely entered into in the proper , traditional way . |
| 13 | The strongest associations we found were between measures of periodontal disease or oral hygiene and total mortality among men under 50 at baseline ( table IV ) . |
| 14 | They were after signs of ritual abuse . |
| 15 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
| 16 | At both seasons flocks totalling 500 or more are commonplace , and the highest counts were of totals of 1,210 on 12 October 1969 , and 1,430 out of 2,000 in the whole Pagham Harbour to Portsmouth Harbour complex on 19 October 1974 ; and , in spring , 950 on 15 April 1972 , and 1,370 on 29 March 1975 . |
| 17 | All 89 met study criteria for presenile dementia ; nine of these records were of patients with probable Alzheimer 's disease , but only three had not been admitted to a psychiatric hospital . |
| 18 | Of the 89 records we scrutinised , only three were of patients with probable Alzheimer 's disease who had never been admitted to psychiatric hospital . |
| 19 | How they were towards peoples of other languages or language varieties . |
| 20 | The police could also take prisoners , and more than 25,000 people were behind bars in Los Angeles , nearly all of them black or Latino . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought she 'd have a rougher time than she did , unlike some team members who were like bulls at a gate . |
| 22 | For Linnaeus the varieties of men were like breeds of dog , different in their appearance , different in their manifest behaviour , but indifferently equal in their moral quality . |
| 23 | It is extraordinary to imagine that she and my mother could ever have been sisters , they were like beings from different species . |
| 24 | mm , that 's right , because there were like lines across where they |
| 25 | They were stopped outside the gate , of course , and after a time the sergeant on guard came out and spoke to them and they began an argument and it got very heated because this sergeant thought that the Americans were like knights of old rescuing a damsel in distress . |
| 26 | They were like bunches of oranges and lemons |
| 27 | The Lady smiled into two eyes that were like holes in the universe . |
| 28 | Carrie 's thoughts were like bits of jigsaw , whirling round in her head . |
| 29 | It was a freezing cold day and her feet were like blocks of ice after the session in the yard . |
| 30 | They were like chips of blue ice , his lips compressed into a thin line . |