Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The data were off loaded to a computer ( Amstrad PC1640 , IBM-compatible ) and processed using the Esophagram software ( Gastrosoft Ltd , USA ) . |
| 2 | That was hard enough when most transfer prices were for tangible goods , points out Gary Hufbauer , of the Institute for International Economics , in a recent book * . |
| 3 | Until now , Danish GPs ' notes were for private use , except when they involved drug prescription , accidents , and insurance claims , or when malpractice was suspected ( see Lancet 1992 ; 340 : 719 ) . |
| 4 | They were for ketchup-type sauces . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The IFS report Counting People With Low Incomes said that refusal ‘ does nothing to allay fears that the changes were for political rather than bona fide methodological reasons ’ . |
| 7 | Though if they were for young William or for herself , she could not be sure . |
| 8 | Sir , Such is his eagerness to correct me that Pierre dom Engels ( Letters , 18th/25th December ) mis-attributes Antonia Fraser 's own comment to her aunt , who , as I correctly said , was under the firm impression that Book Tokens were for young children only . |
| 9 | The awards , sponsored by the communication equipment manufacturers Tunstall Telecom , were for outstanding achievements by elderly people and their contribution to helping others . |
| 10 | With this view , the Conservatives in the inter-war period were for small-scale government and low taxes — the less done by government , the better and cheaper . |
| 11 | Only 10% were for advanced material , and another 12% for a category defined as ‘ standard ’ works . |
| 12 | The others , all correctly addressed , were for various occupants at 27 The Grove , Greatham , Hartlepool TS5 1PQ . |
| 13 | The arrests were for alleged public order , criminal damage or drugs offences . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Two were for fulminant colitis , in one case Crohn 's disease was subsequently identified in the proctectomy specimen and in the other Crohn 's was recognised only in the ileal reservoir after excision . |
| 16 | I think that I am correct in saying that the two original high level computer languages were Cobol and Prolog , which were for developing business and general/scientific applications respectively . |
| 17 | Of the courses listed , 5 were for English teachers , 15 were for Modern Language teachers , 1 for Primary teachers , 4 for a mixed group , 1 on ‘ Language Awareness ’ , 1 on ‘ Examining ’ , 1 on ‘ English Language ’ and 6 uninterpretable . |
| 18 | Leith mentally shook herself to join in the conversation , realising that her mother had been speaking of the wonderful opportunities there were for world-wide travelling these days . |
| 19 | I believe that the figures that the hon. Lady gave earlier were for regional development grant rather than for regional selective assistance , which has been in existence for only about three years , as she will recall . |
| 20 | The figures were for regional preferential assistance and were provided by the Department of Trade and Industry in response to a written question , as I explained to the hon. Member for Stockton , South ( Mr. Devlin ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This is not the most Basque part of the Basque country because it is too built-up and , in the case of Biarritz , too chic ; but everyone should go at least to Saint-Jean-de-Luz , emphatically a Basque town and still in living touch with the ocean of which , as fishermen or on occasion as pirates , the Basques were for long leading citizens . |
| 23 | By early in the seventeenth century several of the states of Europe — France , England , the Dutch republic , Venice — already had permanent diplomatic representatives more or less securely established in Constantinope ( though the English and Dutch ones at least were for long concerned above all merely with the fostering of their countries ' trade : the former continued to be paid not by the British government but by a group of merchants , the Levant Company , until as late as the 1820s ) . |
| 24 | In any case many rulers were for long reluctant to send ambassadors to foreign capitals if a lower-ranking representative would suffice . |
| 25 | In contrast , when the laser is inhomogeneously broadened , the experiments were for long in advance of the theory , as we shall see below . |
| 26 | The US State Department responded by reiterating its rejection of any conditions for the release of hostages , and by emphasizing that US forces deployed in Saudi Arabia were for defensive purposes . |
| 27 | Well , Barkingside was a big home they also have one out at Ware they also had one at Upshire but the Upshire one were for disabled children . |
| 28 | Of these , more than 450 were for small , inshore fishing boats called bancas . |
| 29 | Two-thirds of all reservations received were for new books . |
| 30 | Freud always said that his conceptualizations of the instincts were for specific purposes and could be further developed and altered later on , as indeed they were . |