Example sentences of "was [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His brother , the only member of the family to escape death , was off fetching materials but returned while we talked . |
| 2 | A second major middle class concern was for working class parents to accept certain standards and codes of behaviour . |
| 3 | Although Charles II had been restored to the leadership of the Anglican church as well as the English state , his own personal religious preference was for Roman Catholicism , and he was thus keen to maintain friendly relations with the dominant Catholic monarch in Europe , Louis XIV . |
| 4 | For rejoinders to the commonsense objections against a moving earth , Wilkins was indebted to Galileo , as he was for striking analogies between the earth and moon . |
| 5 | Such French capital as Poland managed to secure was for specific projects like the new port at Gdynia — which was encouraged by the French to discomfort the Germans as much as to aid the Poles . |
| 6 | Askari Security Services of Norwich said it was for poor work rate . |
| 7 | In Scotland the pattern followed was for Regional Councils and constituent Districts . |
| 8 | Incontinence , however , was poorly defined ( for solid or liquid stools ) , but we may reasonably suppose that in many cases it was for liquid stools only . |
| 9 | There was never a consensus for them , as there was for political reform , a consensus of middle class and lower class opinion . |
| 10 | Mr McLean and other northern area agents were visiting Downing Street you guessed right , his MBE was for political services when Mrs Thatcher and Mr Cecil Parkinson asked anxiously about Conservative prospects in the forthcoming Darlington by-election . |
| 11 | Canadian international Forrest , 24 , faces a three-match ban after referee Ron Groves confirmed the red card was for serious foul play . |
| 12 | Another recommendation of the Commission was for increased funding for adult education and with gradual increases in its budgetary provision , the Board in 1931 was able to appoint three full-time lectures : Lee in Northamptonshire , Baker in Cambridgeshire and Hardman for university extension local lectures . |
| 13 | Its numbers had increased by 1979 to 3,000 from only 800 a century ago , when it had been expected to disappear : its only use was for bloodless bull-fighting in which ribbons are snatched from the bull 's horns . |
| 14 | The cry by 1901 was for educated men ‘ of good social standing ’ to become ministers : ‘ Such men … are more needed now than before Board Schools provided hearers whose improved education demands preaching of a higher order than formerly . ’ |
| 15 | His latest scheme was for European scientific co-operation to enable European companies to challenge the US in world markets . |
| 16 | Glasgow was for long suspicious of ‘ the electricity ’ , and St Enoch 's Station and the General Post Office remained the sole public buildings lit by the new method until the 1890s . |
| 17 | ‘ It was for personal reasons . ’ |
| 18 | But that was for bored husbands , and businessmen dating their secretaries . |
| 19 | To reduce the relationship between science and religion to one of conflict may also obscure the possibility that , when students of nature were persecuted by ecclesiastical authorities , it was for theological heresies rather than for scientific heterodoxy . |
| 20 | Llewellyn-Jones ( 1981a ) also looked at lag behind the speaker and though his concern was for individual comparison , a general conclusion is that the usual 2 — 3 seconds lag of the BSL interpreter behind the speaker is not sufficient for the message to be both understood and presented to the audience in a form which can be understood . |
| 21 | The brief was for current Elektra roster acts to interpret the creative outpourings of their predecessors on the label : the result is an excusably , and laudably , up and down affair , with pale recreations nestling up to inspired rethinks . |
| 22 | Total state expenditure was set to rise by 10 per cent to D4,080 million ( US$4,970 million ) of which D1,805 million ( US$2,200 million ) was for current spending ( a 14.2 per cent rise on 1990 ) . |
| 23 | The brief was for current Elektra roster acts to interpret the creative outpourings of their predecessors on the label : the result is an excusably , and laudably , up and down affair , with pale recreations nestling up to inspired rethinks . |
| 24 | ‘ The break-through made by Anisminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission [ 1969 ] 2 A.C. 147 was that , as respects administrative tribunals and authorities , the old distinction between errors of law that went to jurisdiction and errors of law that did not , was for practical purposes abolished . |
| 25 | A major strike breaking phase in industrial relations history was for practical purposes almost over . |
| 26 | As Lord Diplock said in Re Racal Communications Ltd , ‘ The breakthrough made by Anisminic was that , as respected administrative tribunals and authorities , the old distinction between errors of law which went to jurisdiction and those which did not , was for practical purposes abolished . ’ |
| 27 | The main need of these artists was for good opportunities to exhibit their work ; unlike the equally celebrated group Die Brücke ( The Bridge ) they did not work closely together . |
| 28 | Triadic harmony , which may have originated in oral practice ( improvised parallel singing ) , was for good reasons highly developed in notated music but remains fundamental to most recorded music . |
| 29 | The forecast was for good , but that never means much . |
| 30 | Mr Jones said : ‘ Even when she knew she was dying , her concern was for other people , not herself . |