Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saying he would be writing again to the Prime Minister on the matter , Mr Macdonald claimed the moral case for compensation was now overwhelming . |
| 2 | 1.4 The case for change was therefore irrefutable leaving only the problem of how best to effect the changes while maintaining a balance between modules for personal development and the more insistent vocational claims . |
| 3 | As far as the industry was concerned , the case for SERPS was very simple . |
| 4 | The growth in occupational pension provision for women was even more marked with more than double the proportion of 60–69 year olds having them ( 32 per cent ) compared with the over-80s ( 15 per cent ) . |
| 5 | A CHEQUE FOR £2,000 was recently handed over to the guide Dog for the Blind Association at the Shell/Esso Gas Plant at St Fergus . |
| 6 | As the Museum 's train steamed past , an outsized cheque for £1,500 was officially handed over by Director , Mr Terry Austin , to Museum Chairman Mike Stanbury . |
| 7 | The American Gilded Age after the Civil War was a period of ruthless competition even in palaeontology , where the survival of the fittest in the struggle for existence was indeed worked out , in the present as in the past . |
| 8 | Statements of support for Raybestos were also issued by Cork Chamber of Commerce , the Association of Chambers of Commerce in Ireland , the ITGWU District Committee and the Cork Regional Branch of the FUE . |
| 9 | Mrs Arbuthnot 's admiration for Castlereagh was entirely uncritical : his ‘ dignity and nobleness ’ were ‘ never seen in any other man ’ . |
| 10 | Rosetti 's admiration for Jane was never hidden . |
| 11 | By the mid 1960s , admiration for Hitler was almost entirely confined to the residual extreme radical Right , the neo-Nazis . |
| 12 | Up to 1980 , the increase in real income for pensioners was mainly accounted for by increases in the basic pension and other social security payments . |
| 13 | Manhood for Acton was as precious as chastity . |
| 14 | Responsibility for lighthouses was later shifted to Trinity House , a quasi-public body , but lighthouses continued to be financed by ‘ light dues ’ collected from ships , not from general taxation . |
| 15 | Subjective assessments of pain and difficulty during exercise were significantly less for patients in the experimental group on both test dates than for the control group , although they improved for both groups . |
| 16 | But Lij Yasu 's partiality for Islam was apparently more than a question of convenience . |
| 17 | Given this diagnosis , the remedy for unemployment was patently clear : real wages should fall . |
| 18 | Do you know , at Fontainebleau he set up a system of mirrors so he could watch his young ladies pose and inspect them from every angle , whilst his palaces were full of secret passageways with peep-holes in every bedroom for Francis was deeply interested in the sexual exploits of others . |
| 19 | The search for knowledge was also of practical benefit to humankind . |
| 20 | He suggests that the search for cost-effectiveness was particularly prevalent in the 1980s , with the establishment of the Audit Commission and the development of performance indicators in the NHS . |
| 21 | The dramatic conclusion to United 's search for firepower was totally unexpected because Cantona , 26 , a great favourite at Elland Road and the subject of their ‘ Ooh ! |
| 22 | The tail end of the search for Surere was still in progress when they found the fourth girl . |
| 23 | But the Founders ' vote for Manchester was also supported by Walsh , who was excited by the possibilities of fund-raising from the northern councils . |
| 24 | Although guidance for schools was readily available , it does not appear to have been sought . |
| 25 | Japanese salmon drift-netters fishing off Alaska were therefore allowed this figure as an annual quota as incidental catch . |
| 26 | It followed that in Cocks v. Thanet District Council , since the applicant for accommodation was apparently asserting a breach by the local authority of public law as distinct from private law duties , he was not entitled to proceed by action in the county court , but only by means of an application for judicial review . |
| 27 | A charge against him by the Privy Seal for usury was apparently avoided by means of a £12,000 bribe . |
| 28 | The criterion for selection was mainly that of sufficient coverage in the corpus , as outlined above . |
| 29 | The use of fabric for uppers was then unheard of ; the use of an injection-moulded rubber monoblock unit for the entire sole unit , borrowed from ski boot technology , was a brilliant cost and weight-saving innovation . |
| 30 | The figure for specialists was rather lower at 48 per cent . |