Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of countries which were suspected ( principally by the USA and other Western countries ) of developing chemical weapons-including Libya , Iraq and Syria-were among a total of 22 countries taking part for the first time in the committee 's deliberations since the opening of the spring session , albeit as observers . |
| 2 | It was n't like a prison cell , it-was like a maid 's room , Eve told herself firmly . |
| 3 | If you were aboard a vessel that was either going to go up or drag you down when it sank , what would your natural reaction be ? ’ |
| 4 | Between four thousand and five thousand people took part and the demands of the rally were for a crash housing programme , a fair points system for the allocation of houses and legal control over the letting of furnished accommodation . |
| 5 | The other seats were for a couple who did n't know their way to this hall and decided to follow his car . |
| 6 | But expensive as these things were for a king of a small country , they were not the crippling drain on his purse that genuine warfare would have been . |
| 7 | Needless to say the proposed settlement — widely publicised — drew a good deal of criticism , almost entirely from the Left who were for a variety of reasons extremely hostile to white Rhodesians . |
| 8 | Never in my life have I seen social security payments abound unless they were for a pound of flesh . |
| 9 | The new National Front government 's foreign policy objectives , as outlined in the President 's address on Dec. 20 , 1989 , were for a strengthening of links with India 's neighbours and co-operation through the medium of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation ( SAARC ) , continued dialogue with China leading to a resolution of the two countries ' border dispute , development of the traditional friendship with the Soviet Union and of a new relationship with the United States , and economic co-operation with Japan and the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 10 | Anthropologists noted " post-partum taboos " even if they were for a month . |
| 11 | The disparate movements of protest were for a moment united in massive resistance . |
| 12 | The disparate movements of protest were for a moment united in massive resistance . |
| 13 | They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces . |
| 14 | Our client 's initial requirements were for a loan of eighty six thousand pounds being sixty thousand pounds for the business and a further twenty six thousand pounds on house mortgage to cover any monies the bank had required our client to provide overdraught facilities were also required . |
| 15 | Marx and Engels ' arbiter model of the state suggested that if class forces in society were for a time evenly balanced , then the state bureaucracy and a strong political — military leader could intervene to impose stabilizing policies which were not controllable by capital , although they would be bound to maintain capitalist predominance in economic life . |
| 16 | Danish Christianity went back only to his grandfather Harald Bluetooth , and according to Adam of Bremen Christians were for a time persecuted by Swegen Forkbeard . |
| 17 | New River Company shares were worth a fortune in the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | In 1989 Indonesia and Malaysia accounted for almost three-quarters of world sales of tropical hardwood which were worth a total of US$7,000 million . |
| 19 | Everybody 's player of the season , Mark Prudhoe , saved from Alan Johnson and Andy Pilling , but Quakers thought they were worth a penalty after 71 minutes when Mardenborough appeared to be pulled down by Jones , but referee Burns , who up to that point had been whistle happy , turned the appeals down . |
| 20 | ‘ Arsenal were worth a draw . |
| 21 | Villa were worth a point , but they will receive no bigger favour than the one at Maine Road . |
| 22 | We knew the German signals for the night , so we tricked them into holding fire until we were about a mile out , then all hell broke loose . |
| 23 | They were about a foot apart , by themselves , and lying in a pool of blood . |
| 24 | Its little green-booted feet made running motions , though they were about a metre off the kitchens slate-tiled floor . |
| 25 | A lot of the poems were about a woman , a terrible , black-haired , black-eyed woman . |
| 26 | If anything , you 're more intriguing as a woman than you were as a girl . |
| 27 | He could ask the magistrates to infer that the defendants were actually aware of the presence of bystanders , and that they were as a corollary aware that their conduct was disorderly . |
| 28 | Support staff , who were in a majority , were as a consequence involved in productive and creative dialogue with teachers and governors . |
| 29 | His earliest sporting interests were as a co-founder of the Worcester Rugby Football Club and as a penny-farthing cyclist in 1876 . |
| 30 | Eliza 's priorities were as a mother , and if Gould had some sympathy with this , it gave them little ground for compromise . |