Example sentences of "were [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were reactions against what was now regarded as an old-fashioned evolutionism . |
| 2 | Meanwhile there were tragedies in the chimp colony . |
| 3 | Net earnings per share rose 25% to $0.10 in the quarter and were $0.14 in the half . |
| 4 | All these were heresies from a Marxist standpoint but then Marx had not foreseen the coming of nuclear war . |
| 5 | And er it was interesting to the point of view of their attitude to Britain then and er you know they were isolationists of course , you see . |
| 6 | In parish churches , however , there was a long period of stagnation , although there were improvements in standards and taste , and until the time of Vatican II there had been few developments in the Liturgy and its music . |
| 7 | Industry became more mechanized , improvements took place in agricultural production techniques , and there were improvements in transport and in the organization of trade and banking . |
| 8 | While there were improvements in standard in a number of areas , Britain 's control emphasised the distance between rulers and ruled . |
| 9 | And furthermore , 15 other energetic male participants were accessories before the fact . |
| 10 | Some crimes were acts of protest , but within the overall context of illegal activity they were marginal . |
| 11 | The sacrifice of TWW and the merger of ABC and Rediffusion into Thames were acts of some courage and panache , in which the ebullient personality of ITA chairman , Lord Hill , a former broadcasting star as the Radio Doctor in the 1940s and a cabinet minister under Harold Macmillan , were an important factor . |
| 12 | For the Christian , as we have seen , wars were acts of pacification since they were fought to secure peace which depended upon justice . |
| 13 | It turned out that she and her husband were experts on reincarnation and ran a sort of reincarnation centre in Switzerland and she had been an Egyptian princess — before , you know — and written books about it . |
| 14 | Did I really think I knew better than the FO , full of clever people who were experts on British foreign policy ? |
| 15 | It was fortunate there were experts on the bridge at the time . |
| 16 | The reporters said it was because they were experts on low pay . |
| 17 | Fortunately both parents were experts at managing money ; Robert at saving , when and if there was anything to save ; Ella at making the housekeeping stretch twice as far as anyone else . |
| 18 | Beyond the gutter shouting children pursued the polished carriages that rattled towards the rue de la Blanchisserie , but the coachmen were experts with their long whips which snapped sharply back to drive the urchins off . |
| 19 | Most of the corner boys were experts in their preferred weapons , the bottle , the half-brick , or the sharpened pick-axe handle . |
| 20 | Net earnings per share after deferred preference dividends , were $0.11 in the quarter , $0.08 in the half . |
| 21 | She also knew that some of her preferences were base in the extreme , and that her affection for Peter de Salis sprang at the first most ignobly from his delightful name . |
| 22 | Every one of the dairy farmers expressed concern in particular those who had purchased a farm in the past two or three years and were dairying in order to repay the purchase loan . |
| 23 | The prices were £33,500 to £39,000 . |
| 24 | Physical targets were mostly achieved four or five years ahead of schedule ( FAO 1982a : 67 ) , although there were shifts in the emphasis between sub-targets ( e.g. from fruit and nut trees to long rotation species ) . |
| 25 | They were objects of high style , like Garbo and Dietrich . |
| 26 | They were objects of interest , to a degree even their crews did not understand . |
| 27 | I was in no doubt : it was robbery ; there were objects of yours he wanted . |
| 28 | Joined trees were objects of good omen ; symbols of conjugal happiness and marital fidelity . |
| 29 | Improvised cooking utensils , the contents of the three-monthly clothing parcel , a few nails , bits of wood for shelves , were objects around which a sacred ring was drawn . |
| 30 | The irony is that , despite the hype , that was not the way it was planned , and there were snags from early on . |