Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All spring records except one were for the Downs , but all autumn records for the coast . |
| 2 | In a rather odd way , 19th-century public schools were just as ideally suited for the fathers of gentlemen as they were for the sons of gentlemen . |
| 3 | Half of them , the ones with wooden grilles , were for the women . |
| 4 | In recent weeks our Moscow correspondent could have reported on why the voters in Lithuania had rejected Lansbergis and what the implications were for the prospects of democracy in Russia as well as Lithuania . |
| 5 | In schools , the most notable growth has been in the use of 81200 Work Experience 1 — enrolments for this module have increased by over 200% ; other substantial increases were for the Communications and Mathematics modules . |
| 6 | He guessed they were for the morals group , since neither he nor Mrs Frizzell ever really read a book , and he put them down again , still mystified . |
| 7 | Although he extols the yellow of spring , the green of summer , and ‘ the changling dresses of autumnal tints ’ ; these were for the sightseers not the painter . |
| 8 | That although you know , erm interviewing eve if if not everybody on the flats , as many people as possible , as to what their feelings were about the flats and so on , to actually ca done all that , and involved them erm in the erm What has resulted is , the flats being vacated . |
| 9 | I have already mentioned that sixteen of Anselm 's forty-eight surviving letters of the period 1093–7 were about the problems of monks or nuns — a far higher proportion than on any other subject . |
| 10 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |
| 11 | There was need on Ewan Beg to be silent and row till we were through the narrows , but he had time after that . |
| 12 | They followed the porter along the serpentine path , then suddenly they were through the trees and into a glade ringed by clumps of trees , silent except for the gurgle of a small brook as it splashed down some rocks which thrust up out of the ground like the finger of a buried giant . |
| 13 | Between 1987 and 1989 I conducted in-depth interviews with nearly forty parents of children with trisomy 21 ( so-called Down 's Syndrome ) who were between the ages of 2 and 7 . |
| 14 | Overhereoverthere , well ridden by Robbie Supple , has been with Upson for six years , but his only previous successes were between the flags in Ireland . |
| 15 | The generally slow and mellow nature of most of the tracks here shows just how wide the differences were between the styles of go-ahead be-bop ( as exemplified by Savoy 's Parker recordings ) and a more easy-going approach to jazz which developed in the late 1940s and '50s in the wake of the bop 's increasing hectic and adventurous music . |
| 16 | You were after the takings , were n't you ? |
| 17 | The idea was they were after the records which the college held on all students . |
| 18 | Ebert , Fest and I. We were after the assassins of the T'ang 's Minister , Lwo Kang , and had been told to wait for a contact from our Triad connections there . |
| 19 | On the 17th they were past the mountains . |
| 20 | The second general point is that the discussion on Greece and Rome shows that Engels thought that the general scheme of social causation developed by Marx for capitalism applied to pre-capitalist formations , so long as these were past the gens stages . |
| 21 | It has published figures claiming that emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrous oxide last year were below the quotas given to Britain under the European Community 's large combustion plants directive . |
| 22 | This plan was no sloppily organized affair , aware as we were of the lengths to which threatened men will go to protect their most prized territory . |
| 23 | All this encouraged many Burmese to believe that British interests were behind the assassinations . |
| 24 | Rumours in the market said that Japanese banks which had initially indicated a willingness to put up some of the necessary funds , were behind the problems . |
| 25 | Within hours of his return from a three-day visit to Iran , he said ‘ imperialist and revanchist circles and foreign espionage centres ’ were behind the actions . |
| 26 | There followed a time of uncertainty but , it had been ‘ business as usual ’ at Alton General , with staff ‘ making do ’ and ‘ covering up the cracks ’ in their efforts to provide an atmosphere of peace and calm , however hard worked they were behind the scenes . |
| 27 | Although we in the UK were behind the Americans in introducing the mandatory carriage of FDRs in public transport aircraft fitted with turbine engines , we had the advantage of learning from their experience since some foreign registered aircraft of American manufacture which were fitted with FDRs crashed in the UK . |
| 28 | Yeah , she er we went to the river shore , you know the bridge near o on our part of the road and he were behind the trees and er I was wo wo , it were one of his sons who were with us , you know , Tommy and he was shouting |
| 29 | These situations were unlike the others in the study in that they were filmed in rural areas while the films showing junctions were generally in urban areas . |
| 30 | Many of the sites they inherited in 1948 were near the towns and cities which were the main load centres , but such sites seemed less likely to gain planning permission in the 1950s . |