Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Renaissance , human anatomy became the subject of detailed investigation , and artists were involved in a search for mathematical relationships between the sizes of various parts of the body . |
| 2 | During the Renaissance , human anatomy became the subject of detailed investigation , and artists were involved in a search for mathematical relationships between the sizes of various parts of the body . |
| 3 | ‘ They made us more professional and were useful as a basis for court reports , ’ he says . |
| 4 | Clare had been born in 1919 , and by the time she was twelve she had grown into a tomboy , excited by all sports — not only hockey , but sometimes she even helped out if we were short of a player for an improvised soccer game in the park . |
| 5 | ‘ We were stuck in a jam for an hour today . |
| 6 | How much longer could she go on saying no when her body was alive with a hunger for him so deep that every pulse of her blood screamed yes ? |
| 7 | The Committee considered that such a criterion was unsuitable as a basis for criminal liability . |
| 8 | The cards were described by the judge as a " manner of manufacture " because he thought that a punched card was analogous to a cam for controlling the cutting path of a lathe . |
| 9 | The County Arms at Blaby was subject to a proposal for ‘ theming ’ as a Beefeater steakhouse some years ago , which was rejected by the local authority with support from the Thirties Society although the building is not listed . |
| 10 | The level of rates could also rise substantially from one year to the next and was unpredictable as a basis for business decisions . |
| 11 | In the present case Mr. Mahmoud was not bankrupt when he signed the documents and was open to a claim for an indemnity , which has in fact been made . |
| 12 | Remarkably , more than seven years later he ran laps of 58½ , 63½ , 65¾ , and 66 seconds at Lillie Bridge , London , on 23 August 1886 to establish a world 's best time of 4 minutes 12¾ seconds that was unbeaten anywhere for the next twenty-eight seasons and was unbeaten by a Briton for forty-nine years , until Sydney Wooderson returned 4 minutes 12.7 seconds , running in Glasgow on 3 August 1935 . |