Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the search for a route through was on . |
| 2 | What I was trying to say that the for the fire fighter decision about was very boo 'd upon to the professional advice of our Chief Fire Officers and they have a good for eighteen months of how we are doing this fire fighting in Hertfordshire . |
| 3 | He felt more uneasy about this than about borrowing cars , but considered that the reason he wanted the money for was worthy : not as if it was coke or ciggies or similar self-indulgence . |
| 4 | She knew that the one thing that her mother would never provide money for was a training in medicine , so she wrote eventually to the Boys ' Own Paper to ask them how to go about it , inventing a letter that was supposed to come from a badly-off boy whom she thought would enlist their sympathy . |
| 5 | The Consultants at least have to recognise , they could n't fix that the closure of was strongly opposed but it was a mystery to all of us except obviously Mr on the December how they were unable to nevertheless , to accept a little dissimilar rejection of part of my and the associated increased in the despite the fact that seven different people are of the same several different people same margin Mr but not . |
| 6 | The Stevens boys manned the ferry until the outbreak of was although Mabel often helped out . |
| 7 | It is thus clear that the practice of was not without importance from the earliest days of the state and that in Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih — perhaps also in the elusive Elvan Fakih and others there were men who performed much the same function as later Muftis ; but so scanty and uncertain is the available information about this early period that one can not confidently assert the existence , still less the continuity , of an officially designated post of Mufti . |
| 8 | What I was in search of was my son . |
| 9 | The re the essence of was they made more or less the customers ' requirements . |
| 10 | The vote against was that of Boris Yeltsin , the central committee 's leading radical , who had argued during the debate that the reforms did not go far enough . |
| 11 | The mates that I played football with were skinheads into Blue Beat while the girls were into that pop group The Love Affair . |
| 12 | Sandy must be having company , pulled the blind down I think that 's why they 've been good about the parking this week , cos I mean Irene 's pulled her car , we saw Irene pull her car in was you here when she I saw her get in it , it must of been teatime yesterday |
| 13 | That 's why the only person they dared talk to was Sprague . |
| 14 | While I sympathize with the caller from West Calder , I feel we pay poll tax as well to cover all these things but when I bought my house , my solicitor had me in for two hours and went through all my obligations under the title deeds part of was , that I had to pay one three hundredths of keeping the open areas clean and tidy plus grass cutting . |
| 15 | ‘ It kind of was , but it was more that he was forced into that position . |
| 16 | Well I just kind of was running round the shop because I was |
| 17 | From the above observations one can deduce that either the tensile strength is zero due to pre-fracturing , or that the tectonic component of was underestimated . |
| 18 | I mean if , if you er er the whole experience of was that you could get rent reduction and interest rate reduction relatively peacefully so you would n't get disruption etcetera and you would n't get disruption and what , what you might come to recognize as a more , a more viable agricultural system . |
| 19 | You told me that when you went to work for was the first time you came across abortion really in . |
| 20 | His relief at not having been made a fool of was matched by his curiosity to find out who the devil he was , this man Iying chest down on the wet flagstones , face turned to one side as though asleep . |
| 21 | For l/d = 78 , the Reynolds number range ( with the same significance ) was 5500 to 5700 and the range of was 4·5 × 105 to 5·9 × 105 . |
| 22 | The main point that the Review Panel took issue with was Trafalgar 's decision to revalue and transfer a number of commercial properties from developments for sale , part of current assets , to tangible fixed assets . |
| 23 | The client server software architecture from was revolutionary . |
| 24 | I was yes I er I got my degree in was qualified and er the hours they , they were offering happened to fit in with the family so I was quite glad to get the extra income . |
| 25 | erm , this is a , a case which er deals with er the issue of the suspension of a measure based upon community law , whether a national court , when a measure has been based upon community law has power to suspend it , now my Lord the er issue in was erm involved er the er decision of er the German government er to give effect to er a community regulation in the sugar sector which er required er that levies should be er obtained from sugar companies , so it was a very direct er implementation of community law erm in that sense different to the matter before your Lordship , but we rely on it by analogy and in , in this case my Lord er you will see it 's in the supplementary bundle of authorities , the extra bundle because , before your Lordship , in that case your Lordship will see er between paragraphs fifteen and thirty three er the er European court indicating that where a measure that has been based upon a community er , er law is challenged before a national court that the national court er should er only er engage in the er , er suspension of such a measure , erm if there is serious doubt er this is erm my Lord er at er paragraph twenty three of the case er and we say that er if you look at the criterions they are not dissimilar from those that have been adopted by the House of Lords as a matter of English law in the case |
| 26 | The o only thing that we felt w we could take issue on was on the project resource sheet , erm technical work supervision . |
| 27 | The key to getting the reform through was held by business , which found itself confused . |
| 28 | In the men 's team event the Guinness team of were runners up to the Gale 's team . |
| 29 | The plot is complicated even by Agatha Christie standards , but putting it as simply as possible , Mr Smith said a report had never been produced , Mr Major interrupted to say it was in the Commons library , the Labour MP Tam Dalyell said what was there was not a report at all and Tristan Garel-Jones , the Euro Minister , said it sort of was . |
| 30 | I sort of was a bit lost on me trig so that 's really what I want to get to go through a bit of trig . |