Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Branson 's views about England were more platitudinous than revolutionary ; England , he would say , is ‘ a great place to live in , but as a great place it should carry on standing totally for democracy and people should have the absolute freedom to say what they think ’ . |
| 2 | Other reasons for depopulation were also examined during this period . |
| 3 | Although there had been brief conflicts between England and France in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II , the reasons for war were now much more substantial than they had been in 1294 or 1324 , and the will to war on the part of the king , if not yet on the part of most of the nobility , was much more apparent . |
| 4 | The reasons for referral were either at the patient 's request because of an unwillingness to undergo an operation ( 70% ) or because the patient was a high operative risk ( 30% ) . |
| 5 | Saying he would be writing again to the Prime Minister on the matter , Mr Macdonald claimed the moral case for compensation was now overwhelming . |
| 6 | 1.4 The case for change was therefore irrefutable leaving only the problem of how best to effect the changes while maintaining a balance between modules for personal development and the more insistent vocational claims . |
| 7 | As far as the industry was concerned , the case for SERPS was very simple . |
| 8 | The growth in occupational pension provision for women was even more marked with more than double the proportion of 60–69 year olds having them ( 32 per cent ) compared with the over-80s ( 15 per cent ) . |
| 9 | A CHEQUE FOR £2,000 was recently handed over to the guide Dog for the Blind Association at the Shell/Esso Gas Plant at St Fergus . |
| 10 | As the Museum 's train steamed past , an outsized cheque for £1,500 was officially handed over by Director , Mr Terry Austin , to Museum Chairman Mike Stanbury . |
| 11 | By the autumn of 1983 my plans for health were well under way . |
| 12 | The American Gilded Age after the Civil War was a period of ruthless competition even in palaeontology , where the survival of the fittest in the struggle for existence was indeed worked out , in the present as in the past . |
| 13 | Fights between skins were usually the result of some territorial infringement . |
| 14 | The sums which people paid Maples for furniture were very small compared with what they had to pay for a house to put it in . |
| 15 | Statements of support for Raybestos were also issued by Cork Chamber of Commerce , the Association of Chambers of Commerce in Ireland , the ITGWU District Committee and the Cork Regional Branch of the FUE . |
| 16 | It is also relevant here that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries meetings between rulers were exceedingly rare ( Louis XIV never met William III , the Emperor Leopold I or Charles II of Spain , the rivals against whom he struggled for so long ) and negotiations between them had therefore to be conducted entirely through their diplomats . |
| 17 | Mrs Arbuthnot 's admiration for Castlereagh was entirely uncritical : his ‘ dignity and nobleness ’ were ‘ never seen in any other man ’ . |
| 18 | Rosetti 's admiration for Jane was never hidden . |
| 19 | By the mid 1960s , admiration for Hitler was almost entirely confined to the residual extreme radical Right , the neo-Nazis . |
| 20 | Teachers who see the scheme as useful in producing proposals for changes were again significantly positive in their attitudes whereas those not doing so were negative . |
| 21 | Up to 1980 , the increase in real income for pensioners was mainly accounted for by increases in the basic pension and other social security payments . |
| 22 | Manhood for Acton was as precious as chastity . |
| 23 | Responsibility for lighthouses was later shifted to Trinity House , a quasi-public body , but lighthouses continued to be financed by ‘ light dues ’ collected from ships , not from general taxation . |
| 24 | Subjective assessments of pain and difficulty during exercise were significantly less for patients in the experimental group on both test dates than for the control group , although they improved for both groups . |
| 25 | On the other hand , the use of keywords from Dewey as a means of generating additional keywords for records was extremely fruitful and allowed better retrieval even if , on occasions , there was some loss of precision due to the granularity of the classification . |
| 26 | But Lij Yasu 's partiality for Islam was apparently more than a question of convenience . |
| 27 | Thirdly , the amounts of PABA excreted in urine during six hours after dosing were significantly lower in rats pretreated with antibiotics and higher in bacterial overgrowth rats compared with controls , as found in the PABA-UDCA administration test . |
| 28 | The story of commercial co-option is familiar in pop history but the terms in which the story is told change , and Paul Morley 's words about Frankie were thus more important than Frankie themselves . |
| 29 | Given this diagnosis , the remedy for unemployment was patently clear : real wages should fall . |
| 30 | Its high pitched screams for mercy were literally unbearable and Klift turned away , sickened . |