Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was too late to be worrying over any implications inherent in spending Christmas with the Danbys and now the day had dawned Meredith was rather pleased she was going to be with company , especially after her sighting of the whatever-it-was during the night . |
| 2 | A number of countries which were suspected ( principally by the USA and other Western countries ) of developing chemical weapons-including Libya , Iraq and Syria-were among a total of 22 countries taking part for the first time in the committee 's deliberations since the opening of the spring session , albeit as observers . |
| 3 | It was that young man , declaiming and arguing , whom Charles Lamb was famously to invoke : ‘ Come back into memory , like as thou wert in the day-spring of thy fancies , ’ he wrote in 1820 , ‘ with hope like a fiery column before thee — the dark pillar not yet turned — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Logician , Metaphysician , Bard ! ’ |
| 4 | It was n't like a prison cell , it-was like a maid 's room , Eve told herself firmly . |
| 5 | Indeed , Kinnock and Thatcher were more visible in our pre-campaign week , when both were on highly publicized foreign tours , than they were during the campaign itself . |
| 6 | Complaints are likely to rise , even though the sound levels may be lower than they were during the relative ‘ boom ’ days before the recession . |
| 7 | Prompted by a return to international competition , drug tests on two players from each Currie Cup side were introduced this season , just as they were during the World Cup . |
| 8 | ‘ There were some meetings that were during the week and I enjoyed going away , ’ he remembered . |
| 9 | There are now approximately 2 million more weavers operating in Persia than there were during the time of the late Shah , and , even if this trend is reversed , existing stocks are large enough to keep the Western markets more than adequately supplied for a decade or so . |
| 10 | Is not it about time that the Government stopped this practice of recruiting and exploiting young people who are deemed not old enough to cast a vote but in some cases are being forced to continue in the Army and can be put into armed combat , as they were during the Gulf war ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I mean the Welsh population in percentage terms is now rising more rapidly than that of England and therefore by the year two thousand and one when the next review would take place er we er will certainly fully occupy if you like , that fifth seat in terms of the average size because Welsh Euro constituencies were during the past ten years , very slightly larger on average than those in England and so er we are moving from under representation to slight over representation for a temporary period er simply because er you know Wales is regarded as indivisible for this purpose and that 's why we welcomed this debate . |
| 13 | Lower Ormeau Community Festival Committee organised a week long series of events , most of which were during the day . |
| 14 | ‘ We consider training to be crucial and we are spending more on it now than we were during the last recession , ’ he said . |
| 15 | If you were aboard a vessel that was either going to go up or drag you down when it sank , what would your natural reaction be ? ’ |
| 16 | Currently , no Scouts at all were aboard the fortress-monastery . |
| 17 | And erm we used to go into the assembly hall every morning for prayer and then we should just go up to the erm we we used to go upstairs to the er to the classrooms which were off a long corridor . |
| 18 | Fraser 's party arrived back on 23 December , but there was only time for a brief celebration , as Stirling , Mayne and Lewes were off the following morning for another series of raids . |
| 19 | Two years later , by the time the second edition was published , most of these had been rescued and were off the danger list . |
| 20 | His successor , Joe Franklin , recalling his first visit to the Department , was told of 14 Coronations which were off the road with faults . |
| 21 | Her hands were off the wheel too and the Glory was driving itself . |
| 22 | A 7% jump in half-time profits to £23.1m , came alongside news from boss Peter Barr that acquisitions were off the menu . |
| 23 | She said : ‘ He wanted me over his lap , so my feet were off the ground . |
| 24 | A lay person asked whether both his feet were off the ground simultaneously when he walked would probably be wrong as often as right . |
| 25 | With only 32 horse power available I had expected a considerably longer ground , but we were off the ground in about 150 metres , although from then on acceleration and climb were adequate rather than startling . |
| 26 | They were off the cinder track now , walking down a hilly street where small , dark houses opened straight on to the pavement . |
| 27 | He felt as if Simon were lifting him by the collar and dangling him so that his feet were off the earth and his toes straining to reach something . |
| 28 | They were off the subject of Jenner — at least , in any direct sense — but he wanted to go on watching and listening to her talk . |
| 29 | By the time we were off the Capes , there was water flying in all directions and glad cries as the Bénéteaus surfed down the glassy fronts of the swells . |
| 30 | ‘ = and they were going to stay there for a few weeks until their faces were off the front pages and they could tiptoe away . |