Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New centres at Harpenden and Old Welwyn were established and Tutorial Classes were arranged at branches in Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City . |
| 2 | XXVIII PRESBYTERY OF ISLAY BOWMORE After the Disruption in 1843 , occasional services were arranged for Bowmore in connection with Killarrow . |
| 3 | Henry Marston ( 25 ) , a Constable with the Liverpool City Police , and Angus Gray ( 28 ) , an ex-Constable , were remanded in custody in Liverpool … charged with breaking into Beaumont Street Post Office and stealing a safe and contents valued at £500 . |
| 4 | Following a two-year investigation by Spanish police into terrorist kidnappings ( including that of businessman Emiliano Revilla in 1988 — see p. 35746 ) , four alleged members of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left ( MIR ) were remanded in custody in Madrid after their arrest on Jan. 14 , accused of links with the Basque separatist organization ETA . |
| 5 | Twenty-eight ambulance and paramedic staff were placed on standby in Northwich . |
| 6 | The Committee accepted the prototypes first , which duly arrived in January 1934 and were placed on display in Talbot Square ( Opposite ) . |
| 7 | Early on , working in tandem with John Higgs , he had brought in the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group and the Nature Conservancy Council to look at all the farms on the estate to make sure they were farming with conservation in mind . |
| 8 | The samples ( + 1 g ground to 100–125 micron ) were heated in duplicate in steel autoclaves in an inert atmosphere at an initial pressure of 1 bar . |
| 9 | Most recently , in July 1991 , two fine Balthasar Denner heads of ‘ Old Women ’ were withdrawn from sale in London when it was learned that they had been looted from the Dresden Museum . |
| 10 | The 38 captured guerrillas were extradited from Laos in January 1990 . |
| 11 | Hortense and her sons also went into exile , for all the Bonapartes were banished from France in perpetuity , by a decree of Louis XVIII , and as a result of the hostility of the major European States Hortense had great difficulty in finding some corner of Europe where she could set up home . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , two men were recovering in hospital in Belfast after being shot in the loyalist Shankill Road area during the night . |
| 13 | I played everywhere , and because we , in the Music School , were taught by tutors in men 's colleges I got to know them well , and went in and out in defiance of the chaperone rules — which were then still in force … |
| 14 | The first reports of AIDS in the UK were received in London in December 1981 . |
| 15 | As the US television service CNN 's transmissions were received by satellite in Baghdad , it was a comparatively straightforward matter to assess the effectiveness of such activities . |
| 16 | Murine epidermal cells ( EC ) were treated with trypsin in EDTA ( TE ) or trypsin in calcium ( TC ) , stained for E- or P-cadherins and I-A antigens , and analysed by two-colour flow cytometry. a , c , e , Cadherin-specific ( phycoerythrin ) fluorescence on I-A - ( FITC - ) KC ; b , d , f , phycoerythrin fluorescence on I-A + LC. a , b , EC stained after a single exposure to trypsin in calcium during epidermal separation . |
| 17 | For example , in 1949–50 , nine new branches were formed in villages in Bedfordshire , seven in Essex , five in Norfolk and three in Fenland . |
| 18 | The sick left there ‘ sometimes … were favoured with revelations in dreams … |
| 19 | Berry , from Bramerton , Norfolk , was originally convicted in 1983 of making electronic timers for detonating bombs which it was claimed were intended for use in Syria and the Lebanon . |
| 20 | It was not clean and tidy as if the thoughts had flowed easily ; it was double-spaced , and the spaces were larded with corrections in type and pencil , crossings-out , insertions , changed words … it was very hard to make it out . |
| 21 | They were flown to hospital in Aberdeen but released after a check-up . |
| 22 | The first three rows of the stalls were filled with people in evening dress . |
| 23 | Mark , 26 , Cindy Kibble 27 , and Debbie Hunter , 26 , were returning to homes in Devon and Cornwall from Germany when their Toyota Corolla went out of control in sleet on the M4 motorway in Berkshire . |
| 24 | The re-contra commanders were returning from talks in Managua with President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro concerning the continued violence between re-contras and re-compas . |
| 25 | He pointed out , however , that on one definition it had in fact arrived ; but the figures concerned were distorted by developments in North Sea oil . |
| 26 | But the last two years of the Carter administration were dominated by events in Iran and Afghanistan . |
| 27 | At the worst , if hard-liners were to come to power in Moscow , Ukraine could be a buffer for the young democracies of Eastern Europe . |
| 28 | In 1959–60 intermediate range ballistic missiles were located on sites in Turkey pending the development of reliable American ICBMs . |
| 29 | On June 10 four men described as " ringleaders " were hanged for involvement in events in Mashad on May 30-June 2 [ see p. 38935 ] . |
| 30 | Parties at the Oxford International Language College , like everything else , were designed with cost-effectiveness in mind . |