Example sentences of "[was/were] in [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many animals have since recovered and been found new homes by an animal welfare workers , some of whom were in court to listen to the evidence . |
| 2 | WE WERE IN PART educated by the Poms . |
| 3 | Thus they have speculated that the thecodontians replaced the synapsids because they were anatomically superior , and that they were in turn replaced by the allegedly superior dinosaurs . |
| 4 | UN officials and journalists based in Kenya claimed that a Sudanese government Antonov transport plane made inaccurately aimed bombing raids on May 30-June 2 on the Jekou and Akobo , where about 65,000 refugees had congregated and which were in territory held by the rebel Sudan People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) ; one casualty was reported . |
| 5 | These ‘ Notes ’ , whilst ostensibly aimed at the Trotskyist Opposition ( which had officially been routed in 1927 ) were in reality directed against the ‘ super-industrialisers ’ amongst the ruling majority . |
| 6 | Stall rentals had risen as much as 100% in six months from the beginning of I 979 and the administration began charging for a number of fictitious additional costs , such as repairs to electricity installations which were in theory covered by the municipal government . |
| 7 | While these national liberation movements in the Third World were in theory modelled on the nationalism of the West , in practice the states they attempted to construct were generally the opposite of the ethnically and linguistically homogeneous entities which came to be seen as the standard form of ‘ nation- state ’ in the West . |
| 8 | The discussions at the Special Commission held in 1977 to review the working of the Convention revealed that ‘ a great number ’ of extra-judicial documents were in fact sent under the Convention . |
| 9 | Prior to the invention of photocopying machines , the preparation of an epitome of title in the way described above was not possible , and this meant that abstracts of title had to be created by our predecessors , who were in fact charged with the duty of tracing title back over 30 or 40 years or more . |
| 10 | The assistants were in fact appointed by the LEA to work primarily with ‘ named ’ children . |
| 11 | The provisions as described on p. 38314 , however , were in fact adopted for the ( separate ) emergency mechanism of the Prague-based CSCE committee of senior officials . |
| 12 | It is certainly true that at the time of the Butler Education Act the school curriculum was not much discussed in public , although certain assumptions about its content were in fact incorporated in the Act . |
| 13 | The houses were in fact built in the eighteen hundreds to a design by Sydney Smirke for Bethlem Hospital . |
| 14 | Coinciding with the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair , Christie 's 11 June Important French and Continental Furniture , Carpets and Tapestries sale was guaranteed a full room , although a number of the most important lots were in fact sold on the telephone or on commission bids . |
| 15 | Three levels were in fact aimed at the professional level , the technician level , and the support ( ie accountants , lawyers , secretaries etc ) . |
| 16 | the Commission were gon na pull the plug on because of your failure while you were in control to adhere to the programme |
| 17 | Throughout these years the powers of monarchy were in effect exercised for the advantage of ascendant magnate factions who enjoyed supremacy at court and aroused widespread hostility in the country . |
| 18 | Q Our Piranhas have recently bred and we have a few fry left ( some were eaten by a Plec , which was in turn eaten by the Piranhas ) . |
| 19 | The PLO itself published a communiqué in Tunis on June 8 attributing responsibility for the killing to the Israeli secret service , Mossad — a charge which was in turn dismissed by the Israeli authorities as not meriting a response . |
| 20 | On Oct. 20 President Ali Hassan Mwinyi carried out a minor Cabinet reshuffle in which Amran Mayagila became Minister of Health , replacing Philemon Sarungi ; Mayagila 's place at the Ministry of Agriculture , Livestock Development and Co-operatives was taken by Jackson Makweta , who was in turn replaced at the Ministry of Communications and Transport by Sarungi . |
| 21 | When this was in turn cleared in the early 1980s the site was disposed of for private construction . |
| 22 | The discovery of the Americas and of southern Africa had synchronized with the beginnings of European printing and , throughout the sixteenth century , the expansion in European understanding of world geography and world ethnology coincided with a tremendous spread of general literacy , which was in turn accompanied by the revived and intensive study of the Bible in vernacular languages . |
| 23 | And the growth of these herbs was in turn encouraged by the Aboriginal people — paradoxically , by setting fire to them , and getting rid of whatever was rank . |
| 24 | The surprise decision to concentrate the main allied armoured thrust to the west of Kuwait was in part motivated by the desire to avoid having to make a frontal assault upon the extensive Iraqi fortifications on the Kuwaiti-Saudi Arabian border . |
| 25 | This attack , which made inevitable the outbreak of a great European war ( see p. 298 ) was in part provoked by the contents of documents which a Saxon government clerk had been bribed to betray to the Prussians . |
| 26 | He was aware that their confidence in him was in part based on the myth that he was devoid of any of the normal human weaknesses such as fear or self-doubt . |
| 27 | The conciliatory approach of the Ramos administration was in part based on the pragmatic need to increase political stability in order to bolster investor confidence . |
| 28 | Thus , the Conservative attack on inflation and public-sector wage explosions was in part nullified by the Clegg awards on pay comparability . |
| 29 | As has been noted , the debate between Hart and Devlin was in part stimulated by the publication of the Wolfenden Report , and Hart begins by noting the striking similarity between J.S. Mill 's argument outlined above and the position adopted by the Wolfenden Committee in s.13 of their Report : |
| 30 | The threat of increased bills was in part offset by the 1pc tariff reduction , from the beginning of July . |