Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [be] [vb pp] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In return Mafart and Prieur had their sentences commuted to three years which were to be served in exile at the French military base on the Pacific island of Hao . |
| 2 | The ruling overturned a February 1989 civil settlement , whereby criminal charges against UCC were to be withdrawn in return for compensation [ see p. 36466 ] . |
| 3 | Each autumn , collective ministerial choices of about a dozen topics for PAR studies were to be made in co-operation with the CPRS . |
| 4 | The most ambitious of them could see that the largest gains were to be made in politics , and to politics they turned . |
| 5 | Armed to the teeth , they were to be seen in North America , Africa , and Asia and many stations became notable as jumping-off points for hunting expeditions . |
| 6 | The king instructed the sheriff to arrest them , and they were to be kept in prison until further orders . |
| 7 | Amos protests that he is no prophet in the ecstatic sense , such as were to be found in attendance at the sanctuaries of his day . |
| 8 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |
| 9 | If he had hoped for a gentle introduction to the life of the School , he was soon to be disappointed , for 1978 was to be the year in which far-reaching changes were to be set in motion . |
| 10 | The elections were to be held in accordance with the 1989 Taif accord [ see p. 36986 ] , although the new electoral law approved on July 16 increased the number of deputies to be elected to 128 rather than the 108 laid down in the Taif accords [ see also amendment of election law pp. 38214 ; 38311 ] . |
| 11 | During the next generation both old and new siege weapons were to be used in tandem . |
| 12 | The events of that night were to be described in detail from varying points of view . |
| 13 | Instead of merchants dealing individually with clients , all wool was to be graded and pooled according to its quality , and profits were to be divided in accordance with the quantity that each had brought to the Staple . |
| 14 | Darwin 's view was that dreams prevented delirium by allowing trains of ideas to continue in the absence of sensory input — if they were to be suspended in sleep like the voluntary motions , ( which are exerted only by intervals during our waking hours ) an accumulation of sensorial power would follow ; and on our awakening a delirium would supervene , since these ideas caused by sensation would be produced with such energy , that we should mistake the trains of imagination for ideas excited by irritation ; as perpetually happens to people debilitated by fevers on their first wakening ; for in these fevers with debility the general quantity of irritation being diminished , that of sensation is increased . |
| 15 | The minister had , in fact , outlined a programme of some 1,823 new houses , including corporation , NIHT and private developments , but 1,300 of these were to replace houses which were to be demolished in redevelopment , so that the plans did not envisage wiping out the existing demand for houses . |
| 16 | These proposals were to be put in order of priority ( a requirement which became a regular feature of hospital development programmes ever after ) . |
| 17 | Military governors-general were to be put in charge of groups of provinces throughout the empire , not just in the imperial borderlands and in St Petersburg and Moscow . |
| 18 | Reaffirmed their decision of 3rd November that the decision on this issue should be left to a free vote , preferably on the Report stage of the Bill in the House of Commons ; and agreed that Ministers who dissented from the advice which was to be tendered in accordance with Conclusion above should be free , if they so desired , to vote for the abolition of the death penalty , though they should refrain from expressing in debate views contrary to that advice ; … |
| 19 | In view of the strength of the case against Copernicus , it might well be asked just what there was to be said in favour of the Copernican theory in 1543 . |
| 20 | It was clear that if the gravitational theory was to be applied in practice to planetary motion , the programme would need to develop from this idealized model to more realistic ones . |
| 21 | One former teacher , Virginia Doyle who was to be discovered in retirement in Sherwood Forest , Toronto , remembered him as a clowning , cunning boy who was good enough to get high marks without apparently doing a lick of work . |
| 22 | It was to be made in whole and smashed bricks , the whole bricks to represent the walls of the world — the Berlin Wall , the Walls of Jericho , the Western ( Wailing ) Wall , the Great Wall of China and Hadrian 's Wall — and the smashed bricks to represent the breakdown of Jewish life and status as they knew it . |
| 23 | The wing was to be named in memory of his son , Grégoire . |
| 24 | was the defendants solicitors , the parties during nineteen ninety one , the two solicitors , had dealt with the question of costs and er perfectly normal way , the plaintiffs have their costs , drafted by er cost draughtsman , I understand that in-house draughtsman and erm they produced to Mr a bill for costs , er Mr looked at the bill and met counter proposals and he suggested other figures , erm , figures in the region of forty two thousand pounds , forty seven and fifty thousand pounds for the plaintiffs costs , the correspondence indicates that Mr then , now put forward what with respect seems to be entirely sensible suggestion that er really it would not be sensible to proceed with having the cost taxed , he said he did n't foresee any real difficulty in getting them to agree the costs and that er the common sense thing in the interest of all parties was to see if they could reach an overall , settlement er determining all the matters in dispute , effectively this would be what was to be done in respect of the surgery premises , there was I think , there is reference in accounted to another sec another premises as well which apparently were lease , er but are now formed part of the negotiations and er negotiations continued between the parties during nineteen ninety two , by the end of nineteen ninety two the negotiations were beginning to run into difficulties , the plaintiffs were beginning to put forward non negotiable final offers and er the result unfortunately was that in apparently nineteen ninety three the er negotiations into that broke down . |
| 25 | This initial gathering of information was to be done in silence . |
| 26 | General Baratieri , hearing he was to be superseded in command of the Italian forces , advanced by night with three columns through the rocky hills and gorges near Adua to give battle to Menelik 's army , which numbered a hundred thousand men . |
| 27 | The property here was to be held in trust for his wife and her first son , Maximilian until he was 24 . |
| 28 | His hearse and coach hire depended on whether the funeral was to be held in town , ‘ on the stones ’ , or in the country . |
| 29 | Other evidence of the amorphous state of the electorate in 1980 was to be found in poll data revealing rapidly shifting tides of support for various candidates . |
| 30 | When asked for the authority upon which the second of these propositions was based , he replied that it was to be found in section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 , and in the principles stated by the majority of the House of Lords in Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 . |