Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We consider training to be crucial and we are spending more on it now than we were during the last recession , ’ he said . |
| 2 | And erm we used to go into the assembly hall every morning for prayer and then we should just go up to the erm we we used to go upstairs to the er to the classrooms which were off a long corridor . |
| 3 | Fraser 's party arrived back on 23 December , but there was only time for a brief celebration , as Stirling , Mayne and Lewes were off the following morning for another series of raids . |
| 4 | ROUND the world yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnson and his crew were off the southern coast of Brazil yesterday as they maintained their challenge for the Jules Verne Trophy . |
| 5 | ‘ = and they were going to stay there for a few weeks until their faces were off the front pages and they could tiptoe away . |
| 6 | In the modern age , institutions outside the family have been created to administer public affairs and women were for a long time expressly excluded . |
| 7 | The provisional Cost Allowances for the accommodation were for a 24-bed unit 430,000 and for a 30-bed unit £500,000 . |
| 8 | Both of them were for a free market , the introduction of Lithuania 's own currency and withdrawal of Russian troops . |
| 9 | My original thoughts were for a 3-week tour but after consideration and discussion a longer period seems preferable ; I 'm therefore thinking of 8 weeks , from mid-Feb. to mid-April , but of course if your time is limited you could return independently . |
| 10 | I remember a morning like that in Derbyshire … a morning with so much Day-Glo orange cardboard sprouting on poles from so many fields that by 11am I was near suicide — a mood that ended with the discovery that the posters were for a popular brand of fertiliser . |
| 11 | Goram , exceptional throughout his reintroduction to the side , was forced to muddy his tracksuit bottoms in response to the first of Amokachi 's many attacks on the break and the more Rangers pressed forward , the more gaps there were for the Belgian side to exploit from a midfield they dominated . |
| 12 | The first lots to come into the ring were for the annual lease of ewes . |
| 13 | Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff . |
| 14 | The local transmissions of the External Service were for the many expatriates working in the country who understood little or no Swahili . |
| 15 | And the new tears were for the absolute tenderness she had seen in his eyes . |
| 16 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 17 | All this depended on the fact that the Romans were for the first time in the law of succession experiencing an ‘ open ’ system . |
| 18 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 19 | This demand was indeed radical since women were for the first time trying to achieve some independence as persons and to exercise some power as individuals in their own right . |
| 20 | Indeed , restaurants , cafes and licensed premises which sell liquor for consumption on the premises ( e.g. pubs and wine bars ) were for the first time was the 1987 Use Classes Order brought within a stated class . |
| 21 | As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . |
| 22 | Women were for the first time identified in their own right as potential land reform beneficiaries . |
| 23 | These ‘ composite ’ boats were for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company . |
| 24 | The turnout was reported to be 99.78 per cent of the electorate ; 100 per cent of total votes cast were for the successful candidates . |
| 25 | His particular predilections when he started were for the young artists of his won age who were beginning to reject the immediate traditions of their predecessors and experiment with new formulas of expression and technique in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 26 | An interpreter said later : ‘ The prayers were for the Royal Family and the prince and princess themselves . |
| 27 | Founded in 1925 , the Review is in many respects a source as appropriate to this phase as the English Association and the Newbolt Committee were for the earlier period . |
| 28 | of the records were for the last week of April and the first two of May . |
| 29 | I 'd assumed without thinking that they were for the straddling dock cranes to run on . |
| 30 | The extent of the hidden need met by the Act was demonstrated by the fact that 93.6 per cent of pensions granted in 1912–13 were for the full amount of 5s 0d . |