Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [was/were] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , other circumstances of the changes suggest that similar forces for change were at work to those elsewhere in the country : rationalization , the drive for cost-effectiveness and the redrawing of hospital catchment areas . |
| 2 | The order for committal was in County Court Form N79 . |
| 3 | The teach-in for secretaries was by Helen Hobbs ACIB , Bristol and Simon Robinson ACIB , Newcastle , both Honorary Secretaries . |
| 4 | The second point made by the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed was about RECHAR and I am anxious to respond positively to him . |
| 5 | Le Corbusier mounted an attack on nineteenth century furniture , ornament and stuffiness ; his vision for living was of sunlight and exercise , space and harmony . |
| 6 | Social life for Malinowski was like capitalism for Keynes : ‘ a going concern ’ , in which individuals interacted with each other in pursuit of mutually rewarding transactions . |
| 7 | The most accessible way of progress was through education , for most people had very little money and men were prepared to study in the early morning and late at night during a long week 's work — 10 hours a day for five days and five hours on Saturdays . |
| 8 | Where these agents of change were in accord with each other , and where some at least of them were directly engaged in the deeper levels of the everyday classroom practice of the teachers concerned , significant change tended to follow . |
| 9 | Initially , the immigrants provided too much competition for the aspiring local working class , as , coming from countries where the process of industrialisation was under way , they were able to use their knowledge and experience to seize the initiative in entrepreneurial activity . |
| 10 | With the loss of their own leaders the armies of Chaos were in retreat and the Elves swiftly hunted them down and destroyed them . |
| 11 | Now here again calculation of forces er and er the , the er er conduct of operations was in fact strictly limited . |
| 12 | The majority of requests were for fiction ( 47% ) or popular non-fiction ( 22% ) . |
| 13 | She and Oliver were sitting side by side in the small parlour at Blue Horizons , having arrived unannounced while the Auguste Didier School of Cuisine was in session in the kitchen . |
| 14 | In the central square a game of boules was in progress under the critical gaze of a group of shirt-sleeved men in baggy trousers , cropped heads enveloped in the pungent smoke from their Gauloises , glasses clutched in brawny fists . |
| 15 | A flock of sheep were in Goughdale , cropping the turf , dark-wooled , long-horned sheep of the breed called Big Allen Black . |
| 16 | And all of these strategies of course were through exchanges to maximize the lineage 's accumulation of symbolic and material capital . |
| 17 | Yes Chairman I 'd like to second that and just to erm say very briefly that er erm I , I very much welcome the report and the speed with which the Chief Officer is seen to have addressed most of the issues there are one or two bits that , that were of course were in fact posters , posters er be dealt with erm I have to say I still have some concern erm that the Chief Fire Officer and his team are so well supported on a very broad front on their decision making and their professionalism and yet on other matters of sound advice which has been given by er who are turned aside and just simply not given the proper consideration that they should have as in that er respect Chairman and I , I , I have some concern , erm it , it would not surprise me indeed if the , Her Majesty 's Inspector of er er brigades , when he comes round himself , has some comment to make on that since I think he 's expectations as well are almost as high as mine is . |
| 18 | In fact , the treaty of Munster was in Latin and in the negotiations " Latin , French , Spanish and Italian seem to have been indiscriminately used … often in the same conversation " . |
| 19 | One of the most useful cases is Geo Mitchell where the limitation of liability was by reference to the purchase price . |
| 20 | The beam of X-rays was of course scattered by the collision , but Compton discovered that the wavelengths of some of the scattered X-rays had increased — they had lost energy . |
| 21 | On 27th May 1854 while the Board of Guardians was in session a message was passed in to say that two persons from St. Cuthbert with smallpox had just been brought to the workhouse . |
| 22 | An exhibition of some of the work and research carried out by the University of Stirling was on display in the crush hall . |
| 23 | This belief has only been strengthened in the post-war period when indeed the division of Europe and the division of Germany were in fact physically the same thing . |
| 24 | Originally named Sudtone , or South town , it was a thriving community long before the city of Hull was in existence . |
| 25 | The Scottish League Management Committee yesterday claimed the vast majority of clubs were in favour of expanding the number of senior clubs to a total of 40 , however . |
| 26 | Activation of c-Myc was by addition of β -oestradiol ( 2μM ) to the culture medium , and cells were observed by time-lapse cinemicroscopy . |
| 27 | The Countess Alexander of Tunis was in attendance . |
| 28 | Each and every one felt threatened , felt their own families and peace of mind were at risk . |
| 29 | At the bottom , a trio of guards were on duty , armed with flamers . |
| 30 | The world of books was in fact the world of luxury to them . |