Example sentences of "[noun sg] was in [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aid was in addition to grants of US$553,400,000 announced earlier in the month . |
| 2 | After a survey of 140 local authorities , the RIBA concluded that the total backlog of repairs and maintenance work to the public sector housing stock was in excess of £10 billion . |
| 3 | The radiator followed three months later , and the exhaust was in place by September — as were the flying instruments/gauges/compass which we had shipped to us from Florida . |
| 4 | The Iraqi armies were not pursued into their own country , er the attacks made were largely erm the fairly cheap and as we now know fairly ineffective er air strikes and that the main contest was in fact over Kuwait which was indeed the declared objective er of the whole operation . |
| 5 | But sometimes the Earl would ring me at home at night and ask me to drive back to Althorp because the Countess was in floods of tears . |
| 6 | The agent was in London by noon . |
| 7 | He appealed to the Court of Appeal on various grounds , but the only ground pursued was that the prosecution on the second indictment was in contravention of section 20(8) of the Constitution of Jamaica which provides , so far as relevant : |
| 8 | The fault was in part with construction of the cable and in part with the high voltages … forced on it ’ .8 |
| 9 | The soup tureen was in front of Edward Pitt , the curving silver ladle on the table by his plate . |
| 10 | The second guidance was in respect of roads , and much needed to be done in this regard . |
| 11 | By 1938 the WTA 's annual turnover was in excess of £595,000 . |
| 12 | Joanna said : ‘ The wedding was in doubt for hours and Annabel was devastated . |
| 13 | George O'Grady , the Tournament Director , pointed out that Mason 's action was in defiance of Rule 19 , which states that " the ball shall be struck at the hole with the head of the club and not pushed , scraped or spooned " , in short , not the Steve Davis style . |
| 14 | President Bush and Mrs Thatcher denied yesterday that there was any comparison between Panama and Eastern Europe , and argued that the US action was in defence of democracy . |
| 15 | No ballot was held , as was legally required if the action was in breach of contract . |
| 16 | As soon as the casing was in position at stage 2 , it was only a few minutes work to pull the cables through the casing and fix the capping . |
| 17 | Nevertheless the manifesto was in respect of nationalisation little more than an elaboration of the party 's one-term programme as accepted at the 1937 conference , with the addition of iron and steel , which had been included as a concession to a radical resolution proposed by Ian Mikardo at the 1944 conference and carried against the advice of the platform . |
| 18 | However , where an expert had agreed to give his decisions and produced none , presumably the court would view an application more favourably , on the ground that the expert was in breach of contract . |
| 19 | The London-based committee was in contact with ministers , tried hard to persuade the island legislatures to initiate measures of amelioration to make the West Indian position more tenable in British eyes and managed to raise some petitions on slavery 's behalf , though few compared with the abolitionist flood . |
| 20 | Leon Panetta , Mr Clinton 's budget director , suggested that the president should delay releasing his health-care reforms because his economic plan was in trouble in Congress . |
| 21 | On May 17 1988 , Computergram Number 930 reported that DEC would give IBM OEM pact for 3480s * * * Siemens and Nixdorf backed IBM-DEC-Hewlett-Packard alternative Unix plan * * * Network Equipment was in dispute with Excelan over acquisition * * * Wang would unbundle VS operating system . |
| 22 | This act was in opposition to Philip , who when the city had fallen , demanded that his own flag be raised over it , thus adding his own stake to any claim made upon Tancred . |
| 23 | Dent marble was in demand for fireplace surrounds and ornamental and decorative purposes but the trade lapsed and succumbed , like the lead mines of Swaledale , when cheaper foreign imports became available . |
| 24 | From 1387 onwards he supervised the carpentry of Winchester College , though his home was in Upchurch in Kent when in 1390 , with his wife Joan , he bought large property in Kingston upon Thames , and also took a sixty-year lease of the Bishop 's Hall there from 18 October 1392 . |
| 25 | Entries in mixed doubles in international events had dropped dramatically prior to Barcelona and what is seen by many as the most interesting and entertaining discipline in the sport was in danger of extinction . |
| 26 | On the other hand , he might not have recognised her , might have thought some girl was in need of help , then decided they were two harmless lovers and driven away . |
| 27 | During the 1890s , the mill was in use for corn grinding , in conjunction with Millbottom although , during this decade , Emmanuel Davis moved his extensive furniture business to Days Mill . |
| 28 | Namaliu claimed that the landing was in response to requests from local chiefs and village leaders , who feared for their safety following a spate of executions carried out by the BRA . |
| 29 | As it became evident that a full-scale civil war was in progress in Spain , foreign observers hastened to impose an imaginary order upon a confused reality by attaching neat labels to the two sides . |
| 30 | His sincerity was in keeping with Army tradition . |