Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in july " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just 33,000 cars were registered in July — and only 13,000 by private motorists — a drop of eight per cent on the same time last year . |
| 2 | After the last exchange controls were lifted in July 1989 , Swedes rushed to invest abroad . |
| 3 | It was not long before the South Metropolitan Company 's omnibus proposals came up again and ten Daimler double deck buses were ordered in 1913 , but Daimler were unable to complete them on time and ten L.G.O.C 's ‘ B ’ type chassis with Brush bodies were substituted in July . |
| 4 | Cahill and Karen Smith , 21 , from the West Midlands , were caught in July 1990 with heroin worth £4 million hidden in their luggage . |
| 5 | Five members of the ( then banned ) South African African National Congress ( ANC ) were sentenced in July 1989 in Gaborone to five years ' imprisonment in July 1989 for possessing AK-47 rifles and ammunition . |
| 6 | However , when the successful contenders were revealed in July 1989 the figure had risen to £600m as a result of inflation and more stringent safety requirements . |
| 7 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
| 8 | Richard and Kate , the fruit of her weekly meetings with Hubert , were born in July 1951 . |
| 9 | Relations with India were marked in July by the signing of a cultural agreement , and in September by the re-opening of rail links for freight traffic ; Indo-Bangladeshi talks on border security were held in April 1991 . |
| 10 | These were introduced in July 1983 when the new statutory bodies for the professions came into being . |
| 11 | Products that had been heat treated to inactivate HIV were introduced in July 1985 and all untreated products were recalled . |
| 12 | Growing calls for Slovakian independence were emphasised in July by the alleged support of two leading politicians for the Slovak nationalist opposition . |
| 13 | Yet although archbishop and king were reconciled in July 1297 , difficulties were soon resurgent . |
| 14 | In Land Travel 's case , the company 's accounts for 1990 , which were heavily qualified by auditors Price Waterhouse , were filed in July 1991 , more than a year late . |
| 15 | Reports from Kabul Radio indicated that almost 200 people were killed in July during heavy fighting between mujaheddin factions belonging to the Hezb-e-Islami ( Gulbuddin group ) , the Ittehad-e-Islami and the Jamiat-e-Islami . |
| 16 | German versions were released in July , and Spanish and Italian languages follow in July 1993 , with Eastern European versions to be added by the end of 1993 . |
| 17 | Several thousand prisoners were released in July after the Ministry of Justice announced a one-third remission of sentence for all prisoners except in certain limited categories . |
| 18 | The British rights to viscose rayon fibre were acquired in July 1904 by Samuel Courtauld & Co. , which began production at Coventry a year later . |
| 19 | Elections to the National Assembly , a body which had been suspended on several occasions since independence , were held in July 1979 , September 1984 and September 1989 . |
| 20 | Preliminary talks were held in July between a separatist delegation led by Kabui and representatives of the government including Foreign Minister ( and first post-independence Prime Minister ) Michael Somare and Justice Minister Bernard Narakobi . |
| 21 | At the same time elections were also held for all state legislative assemblies , except those of Sabah and Sarawak ( where elections were held in July 1990 and April 1987 respectively ) . |
| 22 | That medication was stopped in July 1990 . |
| 23 | The MacMahon Act was amended in July 1958 , enabling the two countries to sign the Agreement for Co-operation on the Uses of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defence Purposes . |
| 24 | The centre was christened in July with an adult education summer school and a series of master classes aimed at the professional caterer and taught by Jermey 's Shanghai Institute of Tourism counterpart chef Xu Zhengcai , on his first visit to Britain , and Professor Dai Xin-Huan , his colleague and interpreter . |
| 25 | Despite talks with party leaders yesterday , Mr Sartzetakis failed to find a way out of the impasse created by the resignation on Saturday of a conservative-communist coalition government which was formed in July . |
| 26 | The Class 47 locomotive Society was formed in July 1983 and during 1988 the 47401 project had been formulated with the specific aim of preserving D1500 . |
| 27 | CNES developed a series of subsidiary companies , entrusted with commercial applications ; Arianespace was formed in March 1980 to produce and sell the Ariane rocket launcher ; ’ Spot Image was formed in July 1982 to do likewise for data and images transmitted by SPOT ; there are several others — including Interspace , CLS ( Argos ) , Simko and Novespace . |
| 28 | A tiny Leith Marine Stokers ' Union was formed in July 1893 but disappeared three years later " on grounds of scarcity of members " . |
| 29 | Caradon was floated in July 1987 with a market value of £134m following a £61m management buyout from Reed in 1985 . |
| 30 | Under the 1959 Constitution executive power is held by President , elected every five years , whose maximum period in office was limited in July 1988 to three five-year terms [ see p. 36066 ] . |