Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Dubcek , 70 , whose reforms were crushed by the Soviets in 1968 , was being driven in a car which plunged into a ravine near Prague . |
| 2 | For the time being at least this was almost exactly how the French were regarded by the Americans in Vietnam : of little or no account and if not exactly in the ‘ out ’ tray at best their position was ‘ pending ’ . |
| 3 | Considerable amounts of beer were consumed on the factories in these pre 1914 days , and boys were employed as beer runners operating from their chosen pubs . |
| 4 | On Aug. 15 , however , it was admitted that Gutfreund , Strauss and Meriwether all knew of the irregularities at least four months before they were reported to the authorities in early August . |
| 5 | In fact he was identifying himself with his Girondin friends who were guillotined by the Jacobins in October and November 1793 ; although the story that Wordsworth visited France at this time to take help to the Girondins may be untrue , this is clearly what he would have wished to do if an opportunity had arisen . |
| 6 | To detect any contamination of samples before breaking the code , negative controls of sterile water were included with the samples in a ratio of one negative control per three samples and treated identically at each stage . |
| 7 | The other three were caught with the joints in their hands . |
| 8 | We needed young men who were dragooned into the services in the fourteen/eighteen war and erm who never came back , and we needed a lot of them . |
| 9 | On the other hand , more than 600,000 were added to the workforces in chemicals , electrical engineering , vehicles , electricity supply , silk and rayon , and hosiery . |
| 10 | A large number of the old lime trees were felled by the gales in October 1987 , but young limes have been placed in those same positions in order to preserve the avenue . |
| 11 | They were precipitated by the resignations in December 1990 of Michel Noir , 46 , and of two fellow dissident members of the " Renovator " faction of the opposition neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) , all of whom stood as ex-RPR by-election candidates . |
| 12 | I took some measures through the Arts Council to help the cash flows of some of the institutions that were threatened by the delays in that funding . |
| 13 | ‘ Hooligans ’ and ‘ Hooliganism ’ were thrust into the headlines in the wake of a turbulent August Bank Holiday celebration in London which had resulted in unusually large numbers of people being brought before the courts for disorderly behaviour , drunkenness , assaults on police , street robberies and fighting . |
| 14 | All his suits were hung in the wardrobes in covers . |
| 15 | Birds were seen on the cliffs in East Sussex as early as 1950 , but despite a considerable increase in numbers , breeding was not proved until 1976 . |
| 16 | The Cameron Report found that four policemen were injured during the clashes in Duke Street and a further seven during the later clashes at the Diamond and on the fringes of the Bogside . |
| 17 | On the test session , subjects in one group continued with this same arrangement but for subjects in the critical experimental condition the stimuli were presented in the contexts in which they had not previously occurred . |
| 18 | The results were related to the topics in List 1 of the GCSE National Criteria for mathematics . |
| 19 | Where we this is first order correlation , you may want to specify erm , some second order serial correlation in which case you 'd be seeing whether the residuals in T were related to the residuals in T minus one . |
| 20 | Names were written by the figures in the wall-paintings , as often on the black ground of the vases ; another example of the hesitancy with which the creators of this revolution approached the idea of the illusion of depth . |
| 21 | These weaknesses were exploited by the Bolsheviks in 1917 when Vikzhel , the old railway trade union , threatened to cut off the capital and the government from the rest of Russia unless Lenin listened to its political demands . |
| 22 | More than 10,000 telephone calls and visits were made to the Samaritans in Darlington last year . |
| 23 | In the present century the combined emblems of Isabella 's yoke ( Y for Ysabella ) and her husband Ferdinand 's arrows ( Flechas ) were expropriated by the Falangists in an attempt to claim some historical legitimacy . |
| 24 | Disturbances which resulted in deaths and damage to property in a number of cities and town were attributed by the authorities in early June to the manipulation of " hooligans , … offenders or " vagrants " by outside agitators . |
| 25 | Gawd help us , no wonder the launch was ‘ shrouded ’ in mystery : the last time I saw those shirts they were wrapped around the kneelers in Mitchley Crematorium ! |
| 26 | Similarly , liquid libations were offered to the pillars in the pillar crypts by the Minoans , to judge from the rectangular depressions in the floor beside many of them . |
| 27 | It is true that people had loyalties to the old counties , many of which were abolished by the Conservatives in 1974 , but people do have regional identities . |
| 28 | The serjeants at law , who had the exclusive privilege of practising , pleading and audience in the Court of Common Pleas from time immemorial until their exclusive privileges were abolished by the Practitioners in Common Pleas Act 1846 ( 9 & 10 Vict. c. 54 ) , had always fallen into a special category and before the events of 1292 to which reference is made in the 1970 judgment , Parliament had introduced an elementary form of disciplinary control over serjeants and pleaders in the Statute of Westminster 1275 ( 3 Edw. 1 c. 29 ) which provided , in the event of attainder for deceit or collusion in the King 's Court , for a term of imprisonment and for disqualification for life from ‘ pleading in that court for any man . ’ |
| 29 | The programme suggested that maybe the Babes were based on the Princes in the Tower , allegedly murdered by Richard III . |
| 30 | It seems that although English greenswards remained innocent of South Africans , score cards from agreed events were exchanged through the mails in what is said to be a contravention of the Gleneagles Agreement . |