Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the active County Federation of WEA Branches and the collective strength of the members in the established branches such as Northampton , Kettering , Raunds , Rushden and Wellingborough ensured continuity of Tutorial Classes and other WEA courses and about thirty classes were arranged in the county in each year throughout the decade . |
| 2 | Inflation prospects were encouraging following the fall in the headline and underlying rate , which excludes mortgage rates , in April . |
| 3 | Only 35 houses were completed in the area in the last year yet the survey revealed 522 households needing different or additional accommodation within five years . |
| 4 | Further contracts for non-patented equipment were placed with the employer in 1983 and 1985 . |
| 5 | Early this week the boys were placed with the mother in the mother and baby home with the intention of rehabilitation to the mother . |
| 6 | Cigarettes were placed on the table in front of you which meant that they were for everybody . |
| 7 | The Police are waiting to interview a teenage car driver following the death of two sisters who were crushed against a wall in Middlesbrough . |
| 8 | A number of Jewish cemeteries were vandalized during the summer in Baden-Württemberg , and in December in Berlin . |
| 9 | The photo was one of a group of twenty-eight Rodchenko photographs which were given to the consigner in 1960 by Varvara Rodchenko , the artist 's daughter , and which raised £445,648 in total . |
| 10 | Though pineapples from Barbados were first brought to England in 1657 and more West Indian ones were given to the king in 1661 and 1668 , it is unlikely that the fruit was grown successfully in England until about 1690 at Hampton Court , then in the charge of George London [ q.v . ] , |
| 11 | Rumoured to have been locked in the safe at KISS FM when a couple of acetates were given to the station in advance of release , this is an ultra-obvious semi-Italio belter which should keep floors jumping . |
| 12 | In parliament he was wont to abandon an argument half-completed if he sensed that his point had been made ; the speeches that appear in Hansard were touched up by his staff , and his speeches in the country were given to the press in advance . |
| 13 | Frost , regarded in his time as the ‘ finest comic artist in the U.S. ’ were given to the Club in 1972 by Mr. R.S. Green . |
| 14 | Contradictory signals were given by the military in the aftermath of the demonstrations . |
| 15 | Opposition criticisms that the DLP was moving with insufficient speed to eradicate the legacy of South Korea 's recent history of military rule were highlighted by a scandal in October which revealed that the Defence Security Command ( DSC ) , the counter-intelligence unit of the armed forces , was continuing to conduct surveillance operations against a broad range of civilian figures including Kim Dae Jung . |
| 16 | In a very short time , the two of them , together with Mrs Diggory , were fussing about the dog in the library , with bowls of warm water , blankets , an old sheet torn in strips , and even some milk laced with laudanum unearthed from the late Lady Merchiston 's store of medicines in the attics . |
| 17 | Major restoration campaigns were undertaken on the mosaic in 1619 , 1889 , 1956 and on a number of occasions with varying degrees of success since that date . |
| 18 | Men were struggling through the crowd in the street , a ladder between them . |
| 19 | However , double standards were used ind attacks on the ‘ alien menace ’ in the fascist press used many anti-semitic stereotypes long before it was accepted as an official weapon ; for instance in Blackshirt in October 1933 those Jews who attacked fascism were likened to a cancer in the body politic . |
| 20 | ‘ Unless one can say that injuries were sustained by a person in life , the consequence is that the statutory provision is not met , ’ said Mr Hamilton . |
| 21 | The reports , which criticised the accountants , were referred to the Institute in August 1990 and a committee of inquiry was appointed by the JDS executive committee in May 1991 . |
| 22 | Women and children were to report at the school in the morning to make arrangements for the care and education of the evacuees . |
| 23 | This is not surprising since different numbers were assigned to the year in different places . |
| 24 | A 13 year old girl and her younger brother , from Bartestree near Hereford , were stopped by a man in a white car and wearing what they describe as police uniform , who offered them a lift home . |
| 25 | Approximately 27,000 cups of tea and coffee were consumed at the start in 1991 |
| 26 | The first students in Business Administration and Applied Computing were registered by the University in September 1992 . |
| 27 | In 1943 , he and his missionary colleagues were interned by the Japanese in a camp in Weihsien . |
| 28 | RESIDENTS of Alexandra Street , Grangetown , Middlesbrough , were shaken by a blast in the early hours of yesterday morning when a petrol bomb exploded on a fishing boat just feet from their homes . |
| 29 | The defence against him was supervised by the Archbishop of York , and three holy banners of St Peter of York , St John of Beverley and St Wilfrid of Ripon were flown from a standard in a cart , giving the subsequent engagement near Northallerton the name of ‘ Battle of the Standard ’ . |
| 30 | While a large number of the items taken from Germany are held in special State-run storage facilities and are easy to work with , the majority of works removed from Russia were scattered over the world in the post-war period ’ . |