Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The other seats were for a couple who did n't know their way to this hall and decided to follow his car . |
| 32 | But expensive as these things were for a king of a small country , they were not the crippling drain on his purse that genuine warfare would have been . |
| 33 | Needless to say the proposed settlement — widely publicised — drew a good deal of criticism , almost entirely from the Left who were for a variety of reasons extremely hostile to white Rhodesians . |
| 34 | Never in my life have I seen social security payments abound unless they were for a pound of flesh . |
| 35 | The new National Front government 's foreign policy objectives , as outlined in the President 's address on Dec. 20 , 1989 , were for a strengthening of links with India 's neighbours and co-operation through the medium of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation ( SAARC ) , continued dialogue with China leading to a resolution of the two countries ' border dispute , development of the traditional friendship with the Soviet Union and of a new relationship with the United States , and economic co-operation with Japan and the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 36 | Anthropologists noted " post-partum taboos " even if they were for a month . |
| 37 | The disparate movements of protest were for a moment united in massive resistance . |
| 38 | The disparate movements of protest were for a moment united in massive resistance . |
| 39 | They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces . |
| 40 | Our client 's initial requirements were for a loan of eighty six thousand pounds being sixty thousand pounds for the business and a further twenty six thousand pounds on house mortgage to cover any monies the bank had required our client to provide overdraught facilities were also required . |
| 41 | Marx and Engels ' arbiter model of the state suggested that if class forces in society were for a time evenly balanced , then the state bureaucracy and a strong political — military leader could intervene to impose stabilizing policies which were not controllable by capital , although they would be bound to maintain capitalist predominance in economic life . |
| 42 | Danish Christianity went back only to his grandfather Harald Bluetooth , and according to Adam of Bremen Christians were for a time persecuted by Swegen Forkbeard . |
| 43 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 44 | By 1980 , 77% of new prescriptions were for the drug ( fig 1 ) . |
| 45 | All spring records except one were for the Downs , but all autumn records for the coast . |
| 46 | It later transpired that all but one of these were for the Bulgarian A team . |
| 47 | The purpose of the study is to identify how the policy was implemented , and what its consequences were for the curriculum , pupils ' experience of school science and teachers ' professional situation . |
| 48 | They were for the day after tomorrow . |
| 49 | I had suggested in the note that , as it was then three-fifteen , rather than their breaking camp , one of them should drive back and take me to where they were for the night and back to the village next morning . |
| 50 | In a rather odd way , 19th-century public schools were just as ideally suited for the fathers of gentlemen as they were for the sons of gentlemen . |
| 51 | ‘ Really , and here I thought trains were for the public . ’ |
| 52 | Ruth guessed that the seating arrangements were for the benefit of whoever might be watching their departure , and that they would not prevail . |
| 53 | I mean , if you think about it , supposing sex were for the benefit of the species . |
| 54 | It was less clear what their ultimate intentions were for the company . |
| 55 | The March examination passed OK but when the Canberra crews sat the October examination they all looked in amazement at the test papers ; they were for the Washington . |
| 56 | It was hard to see what calibre the cannon were for the air was already hot enough to shimmer and blur the details of the far guns . |
| 57 | The others were for the nass taibin , the really well-to-do . |
| 58 | Half of them , the ones with wooden grilles , were for the women . |
| 59 | They were for the entertainment of the workers in their lunch break er , it was n't really much of a job but er , I kept applying to go onto the floor to actually work on the aircraft but they , they would n't sort of er , I was needed too much in the receiving departments so in the end I left . |
| 60 | Other plans were for the expansion of community care facilities , including support for families caring for a mentally ill relative , and more hostels and day centres . |