Example sentences of "were [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Millett J had to deal with the argument that it would be a breach of the covenant if the defendant were during the remainder of the period of restraint , to solicit any business of any kind from any company which happened to have been a customer of the plaintiff company during the relevant period . |
| 2 | Lower Ormeau Community Festival Committee organised a week long series of events , most of which were during the day . |
| 3 | Indeed , Kinnock and Thatcher were more visible in our pre-campaign week , when both were on highly publicized foreign tours , than they were during the campaign itself . |
| 4 | Prompted by a return to international competition , drug tests on two players from each Currie Cup side were introduced this season , just as they were during the World Cup . |
| 5 | ‘ There were some meetings that were during the week and I enjoyed going away , ’ he remembered . |
| 6 | Is not it about time that the Government stopped this practice of recruiting and exploiting young people who are deemed not old enough to cast a vote but in some cases are being forced to continue in the Army and can be put into armed combat , as they were during the Gulf war ? |
| 7 | There are now approximately 2 million more weavers operating in Persia than there were during the time of the late Shah , and , even if this trend is reversed , existing stocks are large enough to keep the Western markets more than adequately supplied for a decade or so . |
| 8 | Currently , no Scouts at all were aboard the fortress-monastery . |
| 9 | They were off the cinder track now , walking down a hilly street where small , dark houses opened straight on to the pavement . |
| 10 | They were off the subject of Jenner — at least , in any direct sense — but he wanted to go on watching and listening to her talk . |
| 11 | A 7% jump in half-time profits to £23.1m , came alongside news from boss Peter Barr that acquisitions were off the menu . |
| 12 | His successor , Joe Franklin , recalling his first visit to the Department , was told of 14 Coronations which were off the road with faults . |
| 13 | They were off the road , parked on a wide area of land that overlooked the next valley . |
| 14 | Cos we were off the road a wee bit you see . |
| 15 | It was hard to stop the elation from showing , but Fran tried her best , knowing there would be time enough once they were off the air . |
| 16 | In wartime food had got to be produced , and all the young men were off the land , somebody 'd got to grow the food to feed this country and it was getting a bit desperate , because , old Hitler , he was no fool . |
| 17 | He dismissed some of the popular images of the Specials which he said were off the mark . |
| 18 | By the time we were off the Capes , there was water flying in all directions and glad cries as the Bénéteaus surfed down the glassy fronts of the swells . |
| 19 | Two years later , by the time the second edition was published , most of these had been rescued and were off the danger list . |
| 20 | Her hands were off the wheel too and the Glory was driving itself . |
| 21 | He felt as if Simon were lifting him by the collar and dangling him so that his feet were off the earth and his toes straining to reach something . |
| 22 | She said : ‘ He wanted me over his lap , so my feet were off the ground . |
| 23 | A lay person asked whether both his feet were off the ground simultaneously when he walked would probably be wrong as often as right . |
| 24 | With only 32 horse power available I had expected a considerably longer ground , but we were off the ground in about 150 metres , although from then on acceleration and climb were adequate rather than startling . |
| 25 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 26 | By 1980 , 77% of new prescriptions were for the drug ( fig 1 ) . |
| 27 | All spring records except one were for the Downs , but all autumn records for the coast . |
| 28 | It later transpired that all but one of these were for the Bulgarian A team . |
| 29 | The purpose of the study is to identify how the policy was implemented , and what its consequences were for the curriculum , pupils ' experience of school science and teachers ' professional situation . |
| 30 | They were for the day after tomorrow . |