Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officials in Moscow claimed that communist party buildings in Lithuania were rightfully the property of the Soviet Communist Party ( CPSU ) since the CPL 's declaration of independence in December 1989 [ see pp. 37128-29 ] . |
| 2 | The Romanian section of Radio Free Europe in Munich was repeatedly the object of attempts by the Romanian secret service to penetrate it and to harm its staff members . |
| 3 | The repudiation of Hellenism in Jerusalem was certainly a reassertion of the faithfulness of the Jewish community to the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , but it was at the same time the result of many individual choices . |
| 4 | Christmas in Abergavenny was simply a continuation of a year of ‘ good sales ’ . |
| 5 | Only in the United States and in Britain was there no element of state control by the First World War . |
| 6 | LUNCHTIME in Britain was never an occasion to whet the appetite of the serious private eater : most decent restaurants were cluttered up with expense-account company clodhoppers , making maximum use of their up-market luncheon vouchers . |
| 7 | The fourth Test in Trinidad was simply a repeat of the first . |
| 8 | The small shop in Tbilisi was only a base , from which to order cloths and make tax returns . |
| 9 | If he had had to correlate the conduct of the second Punic War with the decentralization of the Roman state — with its municipia and coloniae — and with the ever-changing pattern of the Italian alliances , he would soon have discovered that his idea of a mixed constitution in Rome was almost a fiction . |
| 10 | Correction : the Semiconductor Industry Association is famed for putting a positive spin on the most downbeat news and making over-optimistic forecasts , so it is as well to check their announcements closely — the $1,771m recorded for chip shipments in April was actually a decline of 19.5% on the figure recorded for March ( CI No 2,166 ) . |
| 11 | Nayland in Suffolk was obviously a centre of the clothing trade ; a couple of miles away , Stoke , though equal in size , was completely different , having only a handful of clothiers whose businesses , by local standards were not large . |