Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final remedy was found in the convoy system . |
| 2 | By coincidence , the British Medical Association was represented in the House this week to report on its study of hazardous waste in the west midlands in the very same district of Walsall to which I referred . |
| 3 | The Annual General Meeting of the Juniper Green Village Association was held in the Village Hall on Monday 27th April at 7.30p.m . |
| 4 | The Annual General Meeting of the Juniper Green Village Association was held in the Village Hall on Monday 26th April at 7.30pm . |
| 5 | 27.4. 92 The Annual General Meeting of the Juniper Green Village Association was held in the Village Hall on Monday 27th April at 7.30p.m . |
| 6 | 26.4.93 The Annual General Meeting of the Juniper Green Village Association was held in the Village Hall on Monday 26th April at 7.30pm . |
| 7 | Not only proud to display her naked breasts — which attracted some criticism from some quarters for their shape and size — Kylie was revelling in the debate about her body . |
| 8 | According to Christopher Rice of Sanderson Townend & Gilbert , which acted for BPT , the deal was clinched in the face of interest from other parties . |
| 9 | The grain deal was concluded in the context of broader negotiations in Vienna on a bilateral trade agreement which could open the way for the US to accord most favoured nation ( MFN ) status to the Soviet Union , entailing the application of the lowest available tariffs on Soviet goods . |
| 10 | J. C. D. Clark has asserted that government at St James 's and Westminster was conducted " in terms which usually owed relatively little to a sense of popular pressure or wide accountability " , and although he can not deny that the electorate was growing in the period c. 1680 – 1715 , he attributes this to the attempts by the party leaders to manipulate the potential electorate for their own purposes : " The parties , in other words , created their electorate in these years ( rather than vice versa ) " . |
| 11 | George Burt was born in the cottage , demolished in 1908 , between Hixon 's and Brown 's fish shop . |
| 12 | A measure of perceptual reasoning was used in the battery of measures given to the hearing signers in the study ( Kyle et al. 1981 ) . |
| 13 | Charles ' command was based upon support of his nobles , tributary rulers , and their own dependent households and levies ; this formidable fighting force was reconvened in the spring of 773 to invade Lombardy . |
| 14 | In Reg. v. Emmanuel ( 1981 ) 74 Cr.App.R. 135 where the defendant was charged in the indictment with alternative counts , the judge approved a proposal by the prosecutor to offer no evidence on the more serious charge and to accept a plea of guilty to the less serious . |
| 15 | The defendant was standing in the dock awaiting the sentence which was given immediately for the charge which had been reduced to manslaughter . |
| 16 | Expedition biologist Sam LaBudde confirmed environmentalists ' worst fears : ‘ The toll was evidenced in the range of creatures we saw drowned in the nets . |
| 17 | The story of his athletic triumphs was retold in the film Chariots of Fire ( 1981 ) . |
| 18 | I was also disappointed that no mention was made in the Queen 's Speech of one of the major consequences of the Gulf war — the plight of the Kurdish people throughout the region . |
| 19 | We promptly bought the next two novels when they came out , and in the Bodleian catalogue I discovered Dolores , the early work of which no mention was made in the list of titles prefacing her later books . |
| 20 | The priceless trophy was lodged in the vault of a local bank for safe-keeping , a few years later was handed over to Kelvingrove Museum , Glasgow , and finally was given to The Royal Company of Archers . |
| 21 | Mr Hill was driving in the course of his employment . |
| 22 | The RNA template was digested in the presence of 0.1 µg RNAse A during 30 min at 50°C and the cDNA extracted twice with phenol and then with chloroform . |
| 23 | No club was named in the piece but Wyre Boat Angling Club have complained to Angler 's Mail that they recognized themselves as the targets of Bob 's attack — and say his comments are inaccurate , totally unjustified and reflect solely a minority view . |
| 24 | The club was launched in the spring by Dave Caul , the manager , along with Mike Knowler and Andy Carroll , who were previously spinning house and hip hop at The State in Liverpool . |
| 25 | Flack was dropped in the city at ten . |
| 26 | Ward 's reply was lost in the sound of the engine , and when I opened my eyes again we were bumping along the bank of what looked like an old Inca canal . |
| 27 | Daak 's reply was drowned in the roar of his chainsword . |
| 28 | Last August , a soldier was shot in the centre of Crossmaglen and then last November , a policeman on traffic duty in the village of Belcoo , Co Fermanagh , was hit in the head . |
| 29 | Before the dead soldier was placed in the ditch his pay books , personal possessions , his equipment , and one of his identity discs were removed , leaving one disc on the body for identification purposes . |
| 30 | Anyway three people have phoned yesterday , we had two phone calls yesterday , in the morning I had one last night and there was another one this morning about the washing machine and I said sorry but I said the advert was put in the Campaign I said a month or so ago . |