Example sentences of "[was/were] in [noun] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , I read yesterday that some managers , most noticably the two Scots that were in Wembley at the weekend , are talking about banning transfers after the season start and only allowing them for a limited period over Christmas . |
| 2 | Detective Chief Superintendent Barry Stewart , head of Northumbria CID , disclosed that video cameras were in operation at the Gateshead gas depot and as a result : ‘ We have some video evidence ’ , which was being examined . |
| 3 | The recent study that I made ( Squires 1986 ) attempted to get some reactions from such bodies on the subject , and while they were again mixed , a substantial number had reservations about modular schemes at the undergraduate stage , though more were in favour at the postgraduate or continuing stage . |
| 4 | The rarer survivals can add an altogether different dimension to our understanding of the period , and serve to sharpen our awareness of the difficulty of establishing precisely how rare certain items were in society at the time . |
| 5 | Indeed , the Stamford Taurus might have been formed by early Mycenean settlers , as a representation of a Mycenean dagger carved into Stonehenge proves that people of that race were in Britain at the time . |
| 6 | In general , though , thinking was retarded by the dichotomous classifications that were in use at the time . |
| 7 | Five interviewees were in custody at the time of the interview ( two in prison , one in detention centre , and two on remand ) and six preferred to be interviewed outside the family home ( four at the Drugs Council and two in a local community centre ) principally to prevent their families from finding out about their habit . |
| 8 | Er it it take a view on that er appeal he will take into account the er development plan forces which were in force at the time . |
| 9 | Beenhakker , in his more candid moments , went close to admitting that senior players were in charge at the Bernabeu . |
| 10 | Unions were viewed as monopolistic combinations of labour which catered mainly for the interests of those of their members who were in employment at the expense of the unemployed . |
| 11 | used to publish what areas were going to have power cuts , d' ya remember ? , you were in Bristol at the time , er Stuart was the same , they used to publish what area would be cut off and for what time and for how long and you knew you would get cut off , sort of ten o'clock in the morning till three in the afternoon , usu , four or five hours at a time was n't it ? |
| 12 | The report highlights as a major problem the fact that only three of the works staff were in post at the time of the inspection . |
| 13 | It was held by the Court of Common Pleas that the plaintiffs were entitled to be paid the reward due to them by the overseers who were in office at the date of sentence on the ground that until the keepers of the disorderly house had been sentenced there had been no conviction . |
| 14 | yes , erm my wife came from the Midlands , from Coventry and her family roots were in Coventry at the Midlands , in fact there she still has numerous nieces and nephews and great nephews and great nieces there to this day , my with the exception of a sister who moved , who , to Basildon , erm I have two brothers and er they still live in London , still live in East Ham , er the distance is not too great erm and , but obviously as we get older the amount of visiting we do will be constricted by the difficulties of getting from Harlow to East Ham especially when one is compelled to stop driving a motor car |
| 15 | Old liability insurance policies that were in effect at the time of the relevant incidents can be valuable . |
| 16 | Although Sudan 's debt burden eased slightly in the second half of the 1980s , no real turn-around in the economic situation was in sight at the end of the decade . |
| 17 | It has been suggested that Penda 's political power was in eclipse at the time and that Eowa was the dominant ruler among the Mercians as a subject king of the northern Angles from the mid-630s until his death , possibly in Oswald 's army , in the battle at Maserfelth , but there is no reason why Penda and Eowa should not have been ruling jointly , with Eowa as king possibly of the northern Mercians and Penda as king of the southern . |
| 18 | The concentrations of ClO remained extremely low during these periods because air at the temperature minimum was in darkness at the model output time ( 00:00 ) . |
| 19 | I know Marie Thwaites was in service at the time she was courting John . |
| 20 | Where the nuisance was in existence at the time the abatement notice was served , and continued or was likely to recur at the time proceedings for a nuisance order began then whether or not it was continuing or was likely to recur at the date of the hearing , the court must also order the defendant to pay the local authority the cost of the proceedings to obtain the nuisance order . |
| 21 | The judge referred to a previous decision of his , In re H. ( Minor ) ( Abduction ) [ 1990 ] 2 F.L.R. 439 , but he said that that was to be distinguished because in that case there was in existence at the time of the removal an order of the court that the child should not be removed from the jurisdiction . |
| 22 | If no lease was in existence at the time when the accused made the false representation , it is believed that the accused would not be guilty under s.15 of obtaining possession of the land by deception because he would not have the intention permanently to deprive . |
| 23 | It turns out he was in France at the time of the murder , ’ replied Bridget . |
| 24 | When I was in Germany at the end of the war , I met hundreds of Germans who tried to explain this to me . |
| 25 | In 1369 a trebuchet , used for slinging stones , was employed at the siege of La-Roche-sur-Yon , and in 1356–7 another was in evidence at the siege of Rennes ; as late as 1378 another was in use before Cherbourg , having been brought there in pieces and assembled on the spot . |
| 26 | Conversely , the landlord will not be entitled to maintain an advertisement on any part of the demised property , even if the advertisement was in position at the beginning of the tenancy ( Re Webb 's Lease [ 1952 ] Ch 808 ) . |
| 27 | Dittmar 's wife , Lyan , was in tears at the end , but the Australian was mostly impervious to emotion , already concentrating , as he said , on today 's final against the other great Pakistani Khan , Jansher , the 1987 world champion . |
| 28 | However strange this was to us , it was genuinely moving to the Chinese audience , and Comrade Chang , the cadre , sitting on my left , was in tears at the end of a sequence mourning the death of Chou . |
| 29 | The English chronicler , Roger of Howden , who was in Rome at the time , saw both of them as papabile and ambitious for the papal throne . |
| 30 | She was in credit at the time too . |