Example sentences of "were [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Millett J had to deal with the argument that it would be a breach of the covenant if the defendant were during the remainder of the period of restraint , to solicit any business of any kind from any company which happened to have been a customer of the plaintiff company during the relevant period .
2 Lower Ormeau Community Festival Committee organised a week long series of events , most of which were during the day .
3 Indeed , Kinnock and Thatcher were more visible in our pre-campaign week , when both were on highly publicized foreign tours , than they were during the campaign itself .
4 Prompted by a return to international competition , drug tests on two players from each Currie Cup side were introduced this season , just as they were during the World Cup .
5 ‘ There were some meetings that were during the week and I enjoyed going away , ’ he remembered .
6 Is not it about time that the Government stopped this practice of recruiting and exploiting young people who are deemed not old enough to cast a vote but in some cases are being forced to continue in the Army and can be put into armed combat , as they were during the Gulf war ?
7 There are now approximately 2 million more weavers operating in Persia than there were during the time of the late Shah , and , even if this trend is reversed , existing stocks are large enough to keep the Western markets more than adequately supplied for a decade or so .
8 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 ? ’
9 Currently , no Scouts at all were aboard the fortress-monastery .
10 They were off the cinder track now , walking down a hilly street where small , dark houses opened straight on to the pavement .
11 They were off the subject of Jenner — at least , in any direct sense — but he wanted to go on watching and listening to her talk .
12 A 7% jump in half-time profits to £23.1m , came alongside news from boss Peter Barr that acquisitions were off the menu .
13 His successor , Joe Franklin , recalling his first visit to the Department , was told of 14 Coronations which were off the road with faults .
14 They were off the road , parked on a wide area of land that overlooked the next valley .
15 Cos we were off the road a wee bit you see .
16 It was hard to stop the elation from showing , but Fran tried her best , knowing there would be time enough once they were off the air .
17 In wartime food had got to be produced , and all the young men were off the land , somebody 'd got to grow the food to feed this country and it was getting a bit desperate , because , old Hitler , he was no fool .
18 He dismissed some of the popular images of the Specials which he said were off the mark .
19 By the time we were off the Capes , there was water flying in all directions and glad cries as the Bénéteaus surfed down the glassy fronts of the swells .
20 Two years later , by the time the second edition was published , most of these had been rescued and were off the danger list .
21 Her hands were off the wheel too and the Glory was driving itself .
22 He felt as if Simon were lifting him by the collar and dangling him so that his feet were off the earth and his toes straining to reach something .
23 She said : ‘ He wanted me over his lap , so my feet were off the ground .
24 A lay person asked whether both his feet were off the ground simultaneously when he walked would probably be wrong as often as right .
25 With only 32 horse power available I had expected a considerably longer ground , but we were off the ground in about 150 metres , although from then on acceleration and climb were adequate rather than startling .
26 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 .
27 The other seats were for a couple who did n't know their way to this hall and decided to follow his car .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 Never in my life have I seen social security payments abound unless they were for a pound of flesh .
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