Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | XXVIII PRESBYTERY OF ISLAY BOWMORE After the Disruption in 1843 , occasional services were arranged for Bowmore in connection with Killarrow . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The first three rows of the stalls were filled with people in evening dress . |
| 7 | Parties at the Oxford International Language College , like everything else , were designed with cost-effectiveness in mind . |
| 8 | As for Pentium 's infamous heat output , Compaq reckons that the original Deskpro/M boxes were designed with Pentium in mind and that the airflow will cope . |
| 9 | Then the children were evacuated from London in fear of air raids and that made life difficult for many Sunday schools , since the London children wanted to show the local children how tough they were . |
| 10 | All but a few of the team were destined for careers in uniform , and played little more . |
| 11 | The official national results , released on Oct. 23 , were met with rioting in North-West Province , a centre of support for Fru Ndi ( who had earlier claimed victory himself ) . |
| 12 | US trade officials said that the list aimed to target state-owned industries and to minimize the impact on Hong Kong , many of whose exports were manufactured in factories in south China . |
| 13 | The shops had shut and people were wandering around arm in arm and going into pubs and restaurants . |
| 14 | This meant that the 5% to 10% cuts in ski length that people took were compensated by increases in width — the surface area stayed the same . |
| 15 | The wounds were shaped like pendants in silhouette : each slit was rounded and broad at one end , and tapered to a point at the other . |
| 16 | As a result , six separate operations based in north London ( two in Cockfosters , three in Potters Bar and one in Whetstone ) and one in Orpington in Kent were relocated to Stevenage in north Hertfordshire . |
| 17 | Loans were secured from collections in North America , Europe and the Russian Commonwealth of Independent States , of paintings , sculptures and tapestries dating from the ninth century to the present day . |
| 18 | Some were shot on location in shanty towns or marginal neighbourhoods . |
| 19 | ( B ) Effect of phosphatase treatment on in vitro translated CREB , ATF1 and CREM. 35 S-labelled ATF1 ( lane 1-3 ) , CREM ( lanes 4 and 5 ) and CREB ( lanes 6 and 7 ) were produced by translation in rabbit reticulocyte lysate and treated with calf intestinal phosphatase in the presence or absence of phosphatase inhibitors as indicated below the figure . |
| 20 | All footprinting experiments were performed at 37°C in glutamate buffer with 200 µM cAMP ; RNA polymerase was at 75 nM and CRP when added at 40 nM . |
| 21 | Microprocessors , these are the sort of devices which are used to operate lathes and do all sorts of tooling operations which historically were performed by people in assembly lines . |
| 22 | III were used for accumulation in Dept . |
| 23 | In the north , building design had much in common with northern Europe and primarily evolved from Lombard styles ; in central Italy , particularly Tuscany , coloured marbles were used as veneers in decoration both on the outside and inside of the buildings giving a colourful rather than plastic effect to the decoration . |
| 24 | The streets and all government offices were crowded with people in uniform ; there were frequent air-raid sirens and night-time blackouts . |
| 25 | In departing from the tenets of classical execution , they were moving towards contingency in form . |
| 26 | This is partly because , at least in the cases of Montenegro and Kosovo , large foreign loans were raised for investments in infrastructure and heavy industry ( much of which turned out to be unprofitable ) . |
| 27 | When puppies for research were raised in isolation in laboratory , it was noticed that the ill-effects of such rearing could be somewhat offset by cutting a window into the side of their box so that they could see out into the busy laboratory . |
| 28 | Neighbouring princes were marching into Aquitaine in order to play their part in what was rapidly developing into a showdown on the scale of 1173–4 . |
| 29 | In the Senate the Democrats gained seats in California and Wisconsin , but these were offset by losses in North Carolina and Georgia , the latter result following a run-off election on Nov. 24 [ see below ] . |
| 30 | Thanks to Zhukov , critical Khrushchev supporters were brought to Moscow in time for the Central Committee meeting which then overturned the Politburo 's verdict . |