Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [prep] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was MP for Downton from 1831 to 1832 , but the borough was destined for abolition in the Reform Act of 1832 . |
| 2 | The earlier approach is in some ways simpler , in that one can tell precisely what was and what was not a borough , because a borough was created by charter in a formal legal act . |
| 3 | Jesty 's experiment was met by hostility in the neighbourhood and , labelled inhuman , he was ‘ hooted at , reviled and pelted whenever he attended markets in the neighbourhood ’ . |
| 4 | In the days before glasnost — which his fictions may be thought to have rehearsed and predicted , but which could well mean that his fictions will no longer be for the West what they have been so far , when the thing that they deplore was still there in its entirety to be deplored — Kundera was forced into exile in the ‘ free world ’ of the time . |
| 5 | In February a Left coalition was elected to office in Spain ; later in the year a similar coalition was elected in France . |
| 6 | In August 1986 the governing multiracial National Front ( Barisan Nasional ) coalition was returned to power in the House of Representatives with 148 seats , and also retained an absolute majority in simultaneous elections in all 11 Peninsular Malaysian state assemblies [ see pp. 34742-43 ] . |
| 7 | The ruling BN coalition was returned to office in elections held in October 1990 with a reduced majority . |
| 8 | When Lubbock was returned to Parliament in 1881 , he persuaded Gladstone 's Liberal government to take up the cause . |
| 9 | One of Einstein 's aims following his development of SR was to find a set of equations to describe gravitation that would be consistent with SR , and his search was crowned with success in 1915 , just ten years later . |
| 10 | Richard was stabbed to death in the back garden of his home in Newtown 4 weeks ago . |
| 11 | A Catholic priest was sentenced to death in September 1944 for publicly voicing the ‘ Butcher of Murmansk ’ description of Dietl . |
| 12 | The first such study was conducted by Break in 1956 and covered 306 self-employed lawyers and accountants in England — two groups of professionals who are in a position to vary their work effort , and who are also liable to high rates of taxation because of their high incomes . |
| 13 | THE study was commissioned following research in other parts of the country which had shown a marked decline in the number of ponds remaining in these areas . |
| 14 | A car was gutted by fire in Atley Hill Road , Scorton , near Richmond , late on Tuesday night . |
| 15 | A working motor car was featured on stage in one scene . |
| 16 | When General Dankl 's First Army marched , to reach and take Lublin and Cholm , Auffenberg was to move in unison in the same direction . |
| 17 | Suppression of labour was attempted with ritodrine in four cases in the regulated group and two cases in the random group ; only one mother in each group received steroids antenatally . |
| 18 | Probe size and labelling was checked by electrophoresis in urea polyacrylamide denaturing gels . |
| 19 | Bobby was lying in bed in his room at the Gebler 's house in the Bronte district of Sydney . |
| 20 | Purified human Sp1 protein was produced by over-expression in HeLa cells using a recombinant vaccinia virus vector ( 4 ) . |
| 21 | Like many earnest campaigns , the society raised moral indignation over a period of three years when a ‘ naked ’ papier mâché horse was put on display in a Manhattan airline office ; the horse was quickly removed and an apology was sent as speedily . |
| 22 | Evidence that Perot 's candidacy was growing in popularity in late October led to hints by both the Bush and Clinton camps that Perot could be included in a future Cabinet . |
| 23 | Diaminobenzidine was used as substrate in the techniques . |
| 24 | BURLY rugby international Moss Keane was recovering in hospital in Dublin today from a vicious mugging attack . |
| 25 | In the factory it was different because work was separated from home in a way they had never experienced before . |
| 26 | At the start , work was done by horsepower in the strict sense of the word . |
| 27 | Like Multitude and Solitude , it is an early exploration of the quest-adventure , man 's search for beauty as an ideal in human form , which Masefield was to bring to fruition in two later novels , Sard Harker and Odtaa . |
| 28 | Childline 's executive director , Valerie Howarth , said she was delighted that fund raising was getting under way in Ulster . |
| 29 | Initial sponsorship was provided by World in Need , a charity which also helped launch Action Aid and Help the Aged . |
| 30 | Jay Kelly Pinkerton was sentenced to death in Texas for a murder committed when he was 17 years old . |