Example sentences of "were [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , Siemens AG was able to give little cheer to shareholders , and the shares were off 2.30 marks at 663.10 early yesterday after the company warned that it would be counted a success if 1992-93 profits were stable with last year — incoming orders in the first five months of this fiscal fell 2% , although it looks for a 4.7% rise for the full year ; group sales in the first five months rose 3% to the equivalent of about $18,500m . |
| 2 | The proposals in the accord were for general improvements in the judicial system , alterations to the electoral system to prevent fraud , decentralization for a participative democracy , and the modernization of state institutions . |
| 3 | The awards , sponsored by the communication equipment manufacturers Tunstall Telecom , were for outstanding achievements by elderly people and their contribution to helping others . |
| 4 | The others , all correctly addressed , were for various occupants at 27 The Grove , Greatham , Hartlepool TS5 1PQ . |
| 5 | We located 5874 hospital records , 1217 of which were for demented patients aged 40 to 64 years at presentation ; 707 records were either lost or contained insufficient information to apply the diagnostic criteria . |
| 6 | For example , Datir ( 1978 : 212 ) found that , in the state of Maharastra , over two-thirds of all admissions of convicts to prisons were of people serving one month or less ; and a third of admissions were for ticketless travel on the railway , usually through inability to pay fines . |
| 7 | Incubations were for 10 minutes at 37°C . |
| 8 | 11 were for people with learning difficulty or mental handicap , and 4 were for elderly people with a mental impairment , 3 for elderly people who were physically frail , I for children and 1 for physically handicapped adults . |
| 9 | Launderettes were for common people with common synthetic clothing . |
| 10 | The elections at federal level were for 300 seats in the Federal Assembly — 150 in the Chamber of the People ( reduced from 200 ) and 150 in the Chamber of Nations . |
| 11 | Indeed , as mentioned above , the railways were for some years under the direct control of the sponsor ministry ( at that time the ministry of public works ) . |
| 12 | So the 3,813 papers transferred at 0.39 each were worth 1487.07 votes to Craig . |
| 13 | These allowances were increased during the war , and by 1918 were worth four shillings for the first child , decreasing to one shilling each for fourth and subsequent children . |
| 14 | It 's true that surpluses were accumulated , and transferred in non-economic transactions , and peasants had non-economic reasons for acquiring cash : at the monastery of St-Riquier c.830 , the offerings that came in ( and even if the largest of these came from nobles , the majority , to judge from the beneficaries of miracles , were from peasants ) were worth 300 lb of silver per week . |
| 15 | This ensured that after randomisation , there were about equal numbers of obese patients in the three treatment groups ( diet , n=5 ; ursodeoxycholic acid , n=8 ; placebo , n=9 ) . |
| 16 | The only difference has been that the old decisions were about small sums of money and fewer workers , while the decisions today involve vast sums of money and thousands of workers , and also the welfare of their families and other townsfolk . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , left to themselves , many of the farmers who were between 45–64 years of age and had little formal training , saw little benefit to themselves from attendance at training courses . |
| 18 | This might be because two schools were below average size for a secondary comprehensive ; the instruction to offer tests to pupils in the lowest sets rounded up to a complete set could have resulted in more higher ability pupils being included than was the case in larger schools with more sets . |
| 19 | Road , air , and even river transport were of little significance by comparison with the railways . |
| 20 | There were no effective leaders with whom he could deal and , at this point , Congressional parties were of little help to a chief executive trying to meet his responsibility to govern . |
| 21 | Even so , two meagre sessions of firing practice in all that time were of little help in strengthening his nerve or stoking up his fighting spirit . |
| 22 | There is thorough waymarking but , as ever , signs were of little use in really dense mist on the top of Mynydd Machen . |
| 23 | This view was echoed by a BBC director general , Alasdair Milne , who remarked that the prescriptions for broadcasting set out in previous eras — even only a matter of a decade or so ago — were of little value in a rapidly changing social and political environment . |
| 24 | Sir Hugh said he understood that the successes of the security forces were of little comfort to those who had suffered at the hands of terrorists . |
| 25 | Within the peasantry a sizeable body of commercial farmers undoubtedly developed — they were of substantial significance in Russia by the 1880s — but class differentiation was inhibited by various factors — racialism in the United States , the persistence of the organised village community in Russia — and as often as not the fully commercialised and capitalist rural sectors were outside traders or money-lenders ( commercial firms and banks ) . |
| 26 | The offences were of varying degrees of gravity and the appellants have been given different release dates under the statutory provisions which have been under examination in these appeals . |
| 27 | Military affairs were of absorbing interest to Harry Letson . |
| 28 | Subsequently McAdam and Whitaker ( 1971 ) demonstrated that prior to the production of various test words summed negative wave potentials were of greater magnitude over the left than the right hemisphere . |
| 29 | As the next chapter shows , by the late 1980s other mechanisms for restructuring the older industrial areas were of greater appeal to the government . |
| 30 | This clearly showed that the rampart and wall were of two periods of construction . |