Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is almost certainly true to say that there never was any significant period when god worship and religion were as modern man would wish them to be , but instead , that they have always been corrupted , to some extent , to support greed and excess . |
| 2 | Strachan , Macallister , and Speed were in midfield , and by the end of the game were running round it seemingly at will — they had so much space to play in . |
| 3 | The zaibatsu were to be dissolved as interlocking corporate entities and the US model of monopoly control established . |
| 4 | Because of its size and cost , copies in folio were of necessity confined to persons of substantial means . |
| 5 | The cosmids were picked in batches of about 50 from the set of unhit clones ( ie by sampling without replacement ) , and so to ensure that the cosmids in each batch were from different regions on the genome ( and hence to maximize efficiency ) the unhit clones were reordered against the ordered YAC probes . |
| 6 | The home side were at full stretch and with little possession were unable to threaten the RUC line . |
| 7 | Charlton co-manager Alan Curbishley admitted that his side were on a worrying downward trend but pointed out : ‘ In the last three years we have sold players worth more than £4 million and spent only Pounds 450,000 . |
| 8 | England 's management have not supported the view of New Zealand captain Martin Crowe , who earlier this winter raised the issue when his side were on tour in Sri Lanka . |
| 9 | Ken Gillance , defending , said the burglaries occurred when James and his girlfriend were in debt and James had nowhere to live . |
| 10 | When the AA van arrived they informed him they could not take his car home unless he or his girlfriend were in the recovery van . |
| 11 | In the 1957 parliamentary elections , Chamoun 's supporters claimed that the opposition were in reality Nasser 's candidates ; political constituencies were gerrymandered to ensure that Saeb Salam , the most prominent Sunni leader in Beirut , and Kamal Jumblatt , the Druze leader in the Chouf , were defeated . |
| 12 | That is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer , but I can assure my hon. Friend that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor will not allow the European Community to roll over him — as would be the case if the Leader of the Opposition were in charge of the affairs of this country — but will be fighting hard for Britain 's interests , and especially for the interests of the Scotch whisky industry . |
| 13 | It may be that this was done only where there was a public interest , but we have already seen that in the two areas in which trusts involved purely private interests , restitution of property and manumission , the remedies of cognitio were in any case adequate to secure specific performance . |
| 14 | And the secular armies which established her hegemony for her on the Continent were in no position to undertake a full-scale military campaign against Ireland . |
| 15 | Do you know the American President and his adviser were in the malai capital at the time ? ’ |
| 16 | Boar 's head and jugged hare were among the contemporary dishes served in front of the company 's original 18th-century shop front in Cornhill , which now stands in the museum . |
| 17 | If his materials and workmanship were of their normal high standard , he is entitled to some explanation for this unexpected outcome . |
| 18 | The products of their industry were of course quite fresh and unpatinated , whereas the genuine flint artefacts had a white or brown patination especially if buried in chalky soil . |
| 19 | Labour Research ( 1988a ) suggested that the strict mining safety laws would have to be weakened if the coal industry were to be privatised . |
| 20 | Uniform national standards of performance for new industry were to be established . |
| 21 | However , the truth will out and in each of the 72 National Bus Company sell-offs those who keep an eye on the industry were in a strong position to find out what was paid . |
| 22 | If British industry were in the same powerful position as German industry , I might be a little more relaxed about economic monetary union , but I am worried about the time at which we are entering into new commitments . |
| 23 | Schoolteachers , power workers , post office engineers , staff at the Royal Mint and sections of the newspaper industry were among those who either struck or worked to rule in a bid to break the pay policy . |
| 24 | Granada Motorway Services , Asda and the vehicle building and repair industry were among those imposing 12-month freezes . |
| 25 | Among the factors which they are required to take into account in reaching a decision are the seriousness of the offence , and whether their own powers of punishment would be adequate if the defendant were to be convicted ( section 19 , Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 ) . |
| 26 | Millett J had to deal with the argument that it would be a breach of the covenant if the defendant were during the remainder of the period of restraint , to solicit any business of any kind from any company which happened to have been a customer of the plaintiff company during the relevant period . |
| 27 | Accusations of republican and Communist domination of NICRA and attempts to link the civil rights movement to subversion and violence were to some extent understandable responses by Unionists to the events in Derry . |
| 28 | Dr. Goldsmith and Dr. Phillips were asked to examine him because he said he had been kicked and jumped on by the labour master , and that his body was black and blue ; no marks of violence were in fact found . |
| 29 | Free speech and free political association were to be backed by an extension of the franchise to all adults over the age of 20 , a formal extension of the power of the elected legislature ( the Diet ) and guarantees of judicial independence from both the executive and the Diet . |
| 30 | If , however , a definite association were to be found between the occurrence of skin cancers or miscarriages and the continued use of computer monitors , then computer manufacturers and importers who continued to make or sell equipment giving off such dangerous emissions would be liable under the Act . |