Example sentences of "[prep] [was/were] " in BNC.
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1 | Yes the they were much the same as they are now but er , of course the one nearest was the er spraying hanger , that 's where they used to build the Swallow side-cars , the main office building there 's a large hanger with large sliding doors at the back of there which used to house the erm experimental department for the Harvard Aircraft and erm they used to operate the flight gang from there getting the planes ready to go up to be actually tested , and then the next hanger up was very much er starting from scratch and finishing the aircraft structurally you know . |
2 | The martel de fer was a type of mace used by both horse and foot soldiers , and was often carried by archers in preference to the sword . |
3 | Pipeline was easy to judge since it was basically a one-manoeuvre event : what everyone was after was the tube . |
4 | What he was after was not bank funding but advice on European Community finance that might be available . |
5 | What Lazarsfeld was after was a way of searching for patterns in data , patterns exhibited between variables , and patterns that , if confirmed regularly across studies , could stand as statements of empirical relationships between phenomena . |
6 | What she had been after was a specified date and time . |
7 | The last client I looked after was none other than David Niven . ’ |
8 | to wear after was it ? |
9 | And his self-despite was so strong that he knew reviving an old flame or chasing some young actress would only aggravate it . |
10 | Cos you were going up there before twenty five past were n't you ? |
11 | Writing to Ellen , never her most sympathetic correspondent , was dreary work since all she could think of were frantic pleas to tell her of Oreste and she grew tired of begging long before she reached the end of the first sheet . |
12 | The association released details of a survey of 244 carers showing that half of were unsure of their duties under the Act . |
13 | The only vehicles Irena took any notice of were the thin double trams , locked inscrutably into their own system , clanging their way up and down the narrow streets making unmistakable tram noises . |
14 | The bricks it was built of were old and crumbly and very pale red . |
15 | ‘ Well , what Simon could or thought he could dispose of were the pictures . |
16 | Before the case came to a hearing Parliament sought to improve the revenue 's position by enacting with retrospective effect section 47(1) of the Finance Act 1986 , but this proved ineffective for the purpose and on 31 July 1987 Nolan J. [ 1987 ] S.T.C. 654 decided that the regulations complained of were ultra vires and void in so far as they purported to provide for the imposition of tax on interests and dividends paid by building societies prior to 6 April 1986 , and made an order accordingly . |
17 | Mr. Ashworth cited numerous cases in which the acts complained of were in themselves unlawful and in which there are many references to unlawful acts in the context of public nuisance . |
18 | The plaintiffs claim damages from a number of defendants , including the third defendant , under the following heads : ( 1 ) general damages for conspiracy ; ( 2 ) exemplary damages on the basis that the acts complained of were calculated to make a profit for the conspirators or their companies and constituted a cynical disregard for the plaintiffs ' rights ; and ( 3 ) damages for deceit as an alternative to damages for conspiracy . |
19 | We have found that are very much more sensitive , for example in detecting instability , erm we found differences pressures of were much higher in ambulatory studies . |
20 | The ones he was proudest of were what he called aberrations ! |
21 | All I could think of were the smelly corridors , the dirty waiting room with cigarette butts all over the floor , the stares of the officers , the bunches of keys at their waists . |
22 | Let's If I write down Okay the which I 've just suddenly thought of were er |
23 | All the people Timothy Gedge had spoken of were there : Freddie Bywaters and Edith Thompson , Mrs Fulham , the beautiful Mrs Maybrick , Christie and Haigh and Heath , George Joseph Smith . |
24 | In the men 's team event the Guinness team of were runners up to the Gale 's team . |
25 | Mm , that 's right , I mean that 's what , sort of people like Harrison sort of were saying , is that , it , it 's still rational to move , even in the presence of very high , very high unemployment . |
26 | Yes , okay , could we ask Mr Chairman , on this particular thing on this arson business in one thing that we did express concern of were a number of years that are invariably are started we 've called in to do the research into this and the investigation , so ar does this add now the fact that you 're more sophisticated , does it now mean that your having more staff er , devoted to this , because this was a question that whether we should do it , or whether the police should be doing it ? |
27 | Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the . |
28 | They were sort of were n't they . |
29 | All the love , warmth and passion she would ever be capable of were his . |
30 | COLLEAGUES of were shocked to hear of the senior executive 's sudden death on February 17 at the age of 53 . |