Example sentences of "were [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 It is an indication of how low Kylie 's emotional defences were during this crisis that — just for once — the intensely personal details of her life suddenly came gushing out , as if to exorcise some spirit that was within her .
2 And , if there were times those qualities seemed exaggerated , she understood .
3 There was one long corridor and all the classrooms were were off this corridor you see , I I should think there 'd be er five , five classrooms , it was it was no sixth form .
4 And er the classrooms were off this with sort of wooden petitions and glass , in the door .
5 And developments which did not contribute to , nor necessarily seek that objective were for that reason defective .
6 The concepts therefore were for that age quite sophisticated , indeed quite sophisticated by many adults ' standards as we have seen .
7 They were for all ages , from the very young to the schoolroom young lady ; some might even be classed as adult fiction , though they were never again to be published as such .
8 In London as a whole the grammar schools ( twenty-one of which were directly maintained by the London County Council ) were for many years to admit 17–20 per cent of each age group , and the movement towards comprehensive schools was painfully slow .
9 It also coincided with the rise and consolidation of the labour movement in Britain ; and that is a story from which women were for many years absent or in which they featured very much as a minority .
10 The JS clerks of works were for many years mainly responsible for quality control of building and engineering , which is a role normally undertaken by the architect on construction projects .
11 Does the work move to them , or are cars made so expensive that people are obliged to live close to their work , as they were for much of this century ?
12 In distinction to this , morality , for the Victorians and increasingly for the generations that have come after , has been to a significant degree organised around concepts of sexuality , so that even when moral attitudes were authoritarian and restrictive , as the dominant notions were for much of the nineteenth century , sexuality had a vigorous presence .
13 Similarly the right to grant mulazemets was sometimes used as a means of showing particular honour to individual scholars or of placating those who were for some reason aggrieved .
14 Indeed , as mentioned above , the railways were for some years under the direct control of the sponsor ministry ( at that time the ministry of public works ) .
15 When in the same issue the journal reviewed Why Men Forget we are reminded of just how many social melodramas there were for this film showed a Socialist spokesman being discharged from a factory and ‘ denouncing wealth in no uncertain terms ’ before inheriting wealth and marrying a society girl and finally deciding to return to the poor folk from whence he came .
16 Mark , did your letter say how many tickets there were for this game ?
17 For all the fears of a Polish revolt , it is worth emphasising just how moderate and tractable the Poles of Prussia were for most of the nineteenth century : they did not rise up in 1815 , nor in 1848 , nor in 1863 , nor during the Franco-Prussian Wars , nor even during the 1914–18 war .
18 As a result , many men who in law ranked as tenants were for most practical purposes the de facio owners .
19 These loans , at rates varying between 10 per cent and 18 per cent , were useful for helping the Crown over its successive liquidity crises , but , since none was for more than twelve months and some were for less , they failed to lighten the Crown 's burden in the long run .
20 Diplomats and diplomatic representation , it could be argued , were for these states a doubtfully necessary luxury and perhaps even a dangerous one .
21 The highest rates were for those charged with theft of or from a vehicle ( 23 per cent .
22 The only 10 year awards were for those who had worked for LASMO elsewhere — Rupert Kidd , LASMO Pakistan 's general manager , and Chris Riley , finance and administration manager .
23 The Technical schools were for those who had a technical , practical bent .
24 Explanations were for those who mattered to her .
25 If the goods delivered and accompanying invoice were for more or less than the amount recorded on the order , a correcting entry would also have to be made .
26 They stayed where they were for another minute or so , although Jack had to practically hold Ho down while they waited .
27 Its mines , for instance , were worth more in the hands of RTZ , which bought them .
28 Rabbit skins fetched 1d or 2d , depending on the season , jam jars were 1d for 6 of the one pound size , rags were worth more if sorted before selling , into wools and cottons whilst the price of scrap metal varied greatly .
29 Robin Launders , Manchester United 's finance director , told ACCOUNTANCY that the company thought it appropriate to disclose the value attributed to players in the directors ' report in a similar way to the publication of information when properties were worth more than the balance sheet value .
30 Clark capitulated and stayed with Virgin , on the grounds that idiosyncrasy and fun were worth more than conventional careerism .
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