Example sentences of "was [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those Lions tries came when Peter Wright was off the field under the bleeding-wound treatment rule . |
| 2 | Those Lions tries came when Peter Wright was off the field under the bleeding-wound treatment rule . |
| 3 | Keown , an important part of Everton 's defence , was off the field for treatment to an eye injury when Gayle 's long ball enabled the veteran Cork to score his first goal for United since his move from Wimbledon . |
| 4 | After Mironov and Chapman had twice exchanged penalties in the first half , Chapman 's smart 30-yard dropped goal five minutes after the break put Cornwall ahead for the first time while Mishakov was off the field with a shoulder injury . |
| 5 | Up to this point as I said Leeds had been on top — this included a period when Hodge was off the field after colliding with a Crewe player and injuring his wrist , thus Leeds were down to ten men . |
| 6 | He was off the field throughout the second day having treatment for a pulled thigh muscle , but said today : ‘ I have not felt the injury at all when batting and it is much better . ’ |
| 7 | The bolt was on the door and the top was off the bottle of Old Bedwetter that I generally reserve for moments such as these . |
| 8 | COPIOUS helpings of greens were available but Nescafe was off the menu on Wednesday at the first Caroline Walker awards ceremony , in memory of the campaigning nutritionist who died aged 38 last year . |
| 9 | Larry 's hospital drama was off the air in six weeks . |
| 10 | The tunnelling that the Frenchman was paid — and handsomely — to supervise was off the road to Arbil , close to the village of Salahuddin , due north of Baghdad . |
| 11 | He was off the road on a forest track , little-used and thick with dead leaves , and he was watching the failing light through the branches of the trees overhead . |
| 12 | Little damage had been done , all it needed was for the cargo to be reassembled , but , while several tourists were rushing energetically around attempting to do this , the drivers of the carts had taken time off to chat . |
| 13 | By 1627 Buckingham 's pro-Catholic foreign policy had collapsed , and he was bent on a French war ; the need now was for the service of men with enough local influence to raise money for this purpose . |
| 14 | The specific version of this hypothesis tested by SPAR was for the problem of anaphor resolution in the task of paraphrasing simple English stories . |
| 15 | It was for the court to : |
| 16 | This last criterion was applied in the Charter Consolidated Ltd/Anderson Strathclyde Ltd Report ( 1982 ) , where the concern was for the effects of the merger on employment in an area of Scotland which already had high unemployment . |
| 17 | So er the forty pounds was for the update of the license to erm er an I B M compatible . |
| 18 | It was for the cost of having the floor relaid and also for consequential losses ( i.e. lost profits arising from lost production while the factory was closed to enable the floor to be relaid ) . |
| 19 | The initial deal was for the release of two singles and a potential album deal which has yet to be finalised . ’ |
| 20 | He could tell her face to face how sorry he was for the incident of the previous night . |
| 21 | The only statistically significant difference between the groups was for the presence of blood in the stool ; 5-ASA patients had significantly less blood reported than the bismuth group . |
| 22 | It was for the Queen at the Palace of Holyroodhouse . |
| 23 | Of this $60,000,000 was for the relief of extreme poverty in Jiangxi province and $30,000,000 for repairing earthquake damage in Shanxi and Hebei provinces [ see p. 36815 for deferral of World Bank loans ] . |
| 24 | Tilly Mulliver 's only concern was for the state of her friend . |
| 25 | she was for the top of the hockey team and I were for the football |
| 26 | Strangely , his only international appearance was for the English against the Scottish League in 1914 . |
| 27 | ‘ If Haines recommended the Jockey Club should be abolished we would have to consider it and if we felt it was for the benefit of racing we would do it , ’ Lord Hartington said . |
| 28 | For a start , much of that earlier patronage was for the benefit of the patrons and not of the public . |
| 29 | But Bianco was adamant the expediting of the process was for the benefit of staff and users alike . |
| 30 | The track that crosses the BCR at Longville Bridge runs below the railway at this point , and perhaps the screen was for the benefit of users of the track , but as it is also below the railway on the opposite side of the ford , and no screen was suggested there , it seems doubtful that this was the reason . |