Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 2 | He had a habit of singing joylessly about the house , and my colleague was one day amazed to hear what she thought was ‘ Drink to me Only ’ ; she had , however , little time to be surprised at this sensuality , for more careful listening revealed that the words were all about hell-fire and damnation . |
| 3 | His delusions were those of a messenger boy who assumes that because he takes the Chief Architect 's drawings to the print room , he has played a leading role in the design of the building . |
| 4 | References in three separate contexts in Ali suggest that the lowest kadiliks of which the hierarchy normally took cognizance were those at the 25 -akce level ; and these would thus seem to be equivalent to the 20-akce medreses in being the level at which a fully-trained medrese student would expect to receive his first appointment . |
| 5 | In the above example , the proportions attending selective schools were all in the middle range , varying from 0.24 in the working class to 0.72 in the service class . |
| 6 | Painswick were all on route … |
| 7 | The flight should be the sixth test of the shuttle ; the first five trips were all by the shuttle vehicle , Columbia . |
| 8 | No this is why I ca I do n't know if you remember , but erm she was interviewed by a reporter , Fiona and she , i when the market traders were all on strike and you know all those months the |
| 9 | It may have been harder for girls from the Canongate to find such jobs ( the survivors were all from slightly more prosperous backgrounds ) . |
| 10 | On the morning of 24 August ( the ninth day before the kalends of September ) when the various Plinys were all in Misenum , a small town across the bay of Naples from Vesuvius , a curious large cloud was seen in the sky over the volcano . |
| 11 | At Leicester , for instance , the changing benches , bath and lavatory were all in the same room . ’ |
| 12 | He avoided the trendy and the experimental , aiming ideally for costume drama , aware that his strengths were those of permanence and reliability , and would be dissipated by following the twists of fashion . |
| 13 | Poles , Ukrainians and Jews were all to be found in the western , south-western and southern parts of the empire . |
| 14 | The best appointments upon entry were those of writer , the junior civil rank , for such civilians , it was claimed in the course of a debate in the East India House , |
| 15 | Her body and mind were all at once throbbing with a barely suppressible aching need . |
| 16 | He pointed out that a number of companies , with more money behind them than his own , had recently expressed interest in expanding — notably Volume One , Zachary Kwintner 's Discount Book Company , Hammicks and Ottakars — and that the Book Bargains Ltd shops were all in ‘ super locations ’ . |
| 17 | Yet Philip 's methods were those of his father and grandfather ; and although he had a clearer notion of feudal lordship and a broader canvas on which to exploit that lordship , even here he drew on his predecessors ' achievements . |
| 18 | Since the relationships were all in fives , one could tell if a particular category was missing from our present knowledge and predict roughly what kind of new organism would eventually be discovered to fill the gap . |
| 19 | Just before his own exile Sidonius described to bishop Basil of Aix-en-Provence the state of the Church in the areas under Visigothic rule : Bordeaux , Perigueux , Rodez , Limoges , Javols , Eauze , Bazas , Comminges and Auch were all without bishops , and it was impossible to enter basilicas because their doorways were overgrown with brambles . |
| 20 | By far the greatest worries were those of divided families . |
| 21 | To Samsonov , all seemed to be proceeding as he most desired , and he , like Rennenkampf before him , with mistaken confidence , began to believe that the enemy were all in retreat to the Vistula . |
| 22 | He watched her , tensely ; his eyes were those of a five-year-old . |
| 23 | His eyes were those of a chess-player who has made a good move . |
| 24 | At this hour , the building 's lifts were all in use , crowded with homecoming tenants , and the one she and Florian finally entered stopped on every floor on the way up , prompting a series of grimaces from an impatient Florian and frustrating Maria unbearably . |
| 25 | Be that as it may , there were still those in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who still continued to look on Siberia as an exploited colony whose population and resources were recklessly plundered and despoiled by the central government , whose merchantry continued to suffer under the ‘ economic yoke of Moscow ’ and the commercial interests of the centre , whose native peoples were many of them doomed to extinction , where such civil and political rights and modern judicial institutions as existed in tsarist Russia were largely denied to the population of Siberia , where the cultural and educational infrastructure was inadequate for the region 's needs , and which was still used as a distant dumping ground for the criminal sweepings of the rest of the empire . |
| 26 | The most predictable usefulness ratings were those for PEBs . |
| 27 | I pointed out that Sara , Greg and Barney were all in the same position : they had n't chosen to be born to us . |
| 28 | These data were all to hand by early February and he prepared to speak about them at the APS ( American Physical Society ) meeting set for 1 May , sending in an abstract for the announcement of the talk . |
| 29 | Near to the landing-pier were some of the older houses of the town , and by climbing a steep street , the old castle may be leisurely inspected , and it quite merits a visit . |
| 30 | Conspicuously absent from the telegram were any of the customary ‘ fraternal ’ formulas . |