Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early mosques , the focal point for prayer was a sacred stone ( the qibla ) , which was set in a wall facing Mecca ; it later became customary to enclose this stone within an arch-shaped niche known as a mihrab , or prayer niche . |
| 2 | What I really learnt about teaching was when I actually started the stuff . |
| 3 | Keeble ( 1980 ) had included this variable as a proxy for ‘ the restructuring hypothesis ’ , by which he meant the argument that the real reason for decentralization was that manufacturing industry was under pressure to cut costs and had changed location in a search for cheaper , ‘ green ’ labour . |
| 4 | The publication of A Force for Change was crucial because it represented an important internal victory for the reformers , and established glasnost as the principle by which the Met was to be put right . |
| 5 | For the Liberal Democrats , Sir David Steel , former leader and party spokesman on foreign affairs , said that , while the mood for change was strong , there was no wish for separatism and no desire to walk away from the Union . |
| 6 | From this Annual General Meeting , to the Extraordinary General Meeting in May 1983 when the green light for change was given , other things of interest happened ! |
| 7 | The belief in collective action for change was mentioned earlier . |
| 8 | The catalyst for change was the so-called ‘ Agreement ’ signed between the Government and the Stock Exchange in 1983 . |
| 9 | This case presents a situation in which the commitment for change was high at the top ; but the methods of achieving the change were confused at first , and not enough effort was expended to infuse the total organizational environment with commitment . |
| 10 | The impetus for change was to come , however , less from acknowledging the true condition of rural cottages , than from discovering what working-class housing in towns was really like . |
| 11 | But if the Wilsonian rhetoric went well beyond what Labour was able to achieve , Heath 's ‘ mandate ’ for change was even flimsier than that of Labour in the '60s . |
| 12 | Its main lever for change was enhanced staffing , and in particular the role of PNP coordinator . |
| 13 | The rest was given over to a bowling green and a large expanse of lawn ; the potential for change was enormous . |
| 14 | This upward flow of information and suggestions for change was something new in Russian history . |
| 15 | The need for change was reinforced by a series of briefings held with all the workforce which highlighted shortfalls in communication due to the management structure and the need to respond quicker to customers . |
| 16 | 1.4 The case for change was therefore irrefutable leaving only the problem of how best to effect the changes while maintaining a balance between modules for personal development and the more insistent vocational claims . |
| 17 | 2.2 The case for change was presented in a report which recommended a structure for continuity and progression . |
| 18 | The need for change was felt strongly , so builders cast their eyes at the ready-made style in neighbouring France and based their ideas of Gothic upon French schemes , especially Amiens Cathedral which , at that time , was the exemplar in western European architecture . |
| 19 | This inertia in accepting the need for change was , however , amply compensated for by an extremely effective programme of design , the setting up of new manufacturing facilities and by the retraining of assembly workers to handle the new electronic technology . |
| 20 | A much more consistent theme , highly significant for this generation which bore the brunt of the late nineteenth-century attack on community provision for older people , emerges when a parent 's later years are mentioned : how their need for support was met . |
| 21 | The criterion for admission was not so much that traditions vindicated an apostolic authorship as that the content of the books was in line with the apostolic proclamation received by the second-century churches . |
| 22 | The price they paid for admission was the sacrifice of industrial democracy : Co-operation by largely foregoing the promotion of Industrial Co-operation , trade unionism by making the maintenance or improvement of their members ' working conditions the prime object . |
| 23 | Then in the last paragraph they express the view that the academic ability of this particular child , not being one of the criteria for admission was not directly in point . |
| 24 | The EC agreed to prepare a report on the criteria for eventual EC membership by the Visegrad countries , but no timetable for admission was agreed . |
| 25 | The rate ratio for admission was similar when only the first admission of each child was counted ( 27 vs 42 , rate ratio 0.65 [ 0.41–1.04 ] , p=0.09 ) . |
| 26 | The prisoner , who is serving a five year sentence for burglary was being moved from Dartmoor to Bullingdon Prison in Oxfordshire . |
| 27 | Further , land inside the older towns was acquiring a scarcity value , above all in the towns that were surrounded by open fields , so that they could not grow outwards ( see Chapter 9 ) , and a steady rise in the price of land for building was added to the rise in the price of borrowed money . |
| 28 | Speaking next , Medvedev 's report on his work as secretary for ideology was greeted with open hostility , and there were jeers and whistling as he left the podium . |
| 29 | But Lij Yasu 's partiality for Islam was apparently more than a question of convenience . |
| 30 | But , then , his entire stock of knowledge about Islam was derived from Morals and Manners in Islam by Dr Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi . |