Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The omens were bad , and when the Hammersmith show eventually got going it seemed we were in for an all-time rock ‘ n ’ roll disaster . |
| 2 | I knew we were in for an enjoyable day as soon as I heard Nick Faldo say , ‘ Have you heard this one , Nick ? ’ |
| 3 | A feeling that we were in for an epic grew as we waited on the gendarme to begin a traverse across a snow ledge to the top of the fixed ropes , where the Germans , their clothes white with snow and ice , had set up another abseil . |
| 4 | They were in for an interesting night . |
| 5 | AT FIRST , it seemed that we were in for an evening at the Theatre of Cruelty . |
| 6 | ‘ Them upstairs ’ were obviously of an inferior race , and their habits were disgusting , Rose said . |
| 7 | In the third quarter of this year , pay settlements were down from an average of 10 per cent . |
| 8 | In manufacturing industry , pay settlements were down from an average of 9 per cent . |
| 9 | The pupils carried out the project while some of their year nine colleagues were away on an exchange visit to Germany . |
| 10 | ( 148 ) If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied . |
| 11 | The parties were not on an equal footing ; and generally the payer paid the sum demanded in ignorance that it was not due . |
| 12 | The parties were not on an equal footing ; and generally the payer paid the sum demanded in ignorance that it was not due . |
| 13 | In their inception , these authorities were based on the fact that the payer and payee were not on an equal footing and it was this inequality which gave rise to the right to recovery . |
| 14 | Stool soiling was difficult to assess , many children were not at an age to be toilet trained . |
| 15 | They were not in an easy position . |
| 16 | Best J. appeared to consider that the payment was involuntary inasmuch as the attorney , being in ignorance of the true situation , both parties were not in an equal position . |
| 17 | Where clients were already in an institution , or about to be admitted , when the development officers received their names as referrals , they generally accepted that there was little the Home Support Project could do . |
| 18 | And that is I was just a little concerned that you were possibly considering an additional criterion , as I 've got a note of it here . |
| 19 | These variations would have been impossible to rectify without buying expensive new printing machines , unthinkable , as home furnishings were still at an experimental stage in England . |
| 20 | ‘ I first met Eddie Garland at Lamorna , in 1931 , I think it was , when we were both in an outdoor painting group with Birch . |
| 21 | Some were up to an inch wide and ten or eleven inches long . |
| 22 | Our wartime experiences were nearly at an end and I sat there thinking of all the many people I had known briefly , wondering if I should see any of them again , and remembering the many whom I knew I should never see again . |
| 23 | Public-sector land owners were often under an obligation to obtain the best price possible , which was unlikely to happen in times of such severely-restrained demand and when an urban-land market hardly existed at all . |
| 24 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |
| 25 | Look them two women up at Malden and , and , and the bloke came in and they were out on an extra |
| 26 | Each night the teachers had to take turns checking that the students were in their dormitories , and the lights were out at an appropriate time . |
| 27 | WE were out for an airing with Air Hanson this week . |
| 28 | Despite assuring the Radio Authority last Friday that Spectrum 's troubles were now at an end the station is now threatened with a court case brought by Lit to prove the EGM was illegal . |
| 29 | The difference between us and those other publications , however , was that NSS was still on the newsstands almost a week after everyone knew that the Tories were back with an overall majority . |
| 30 | Watford though were a tough bunch … they were n't going to lie down and die and sure enough they were back with an equaliser from Ken Charlery … |