Example sentences of "it was [verb] in [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Close investigation of the lode , where it was exposed in Thriddle Scar high above , suggested that it was hading , 18 inches for every fathom in depth , away from the advancing heading ! |
| 2 | British playwright John Arden ( he of Sergeant Musgrave 's Dance ) accepted the Obie on Henry Livings 's behalf , though , commented Livings , ‘ In his mild way John hinted I might well not have enjoyed the way it was done in New York , but I never argue with box-office returns . ’ |
| 3 | Conversely , it was argued in R v Kidderminster District Valuer , ex p Powell ( 1991 ) The Times , 23 July , that a valuation made by a district valuer was a matter of private law and not subject to judicial review under RSC Ord 53 . |
| 4 | BRAVE Aaron Solomon , seven , had his thumb ripped off in a farm accident and surgeons sewed it back on after it was packed in ice lollies by his uncle . |
| 5 | As regards the taxpayer 's second contention , it was recognised in R v IRC ex parte TC Coombs & Co [ 1991 ] STC 97 that there was a presumption of regularity which applied to both the inspector as the decision maker in issuing a notice and to the Commissioner as the monitor of that decision . |
| 6 | It was incorporated in Edinburgh University in 1951 . |
| 7 | It was situated in Athena Gardens , an area near both Sector 2p and Acropolis Park . |
| 8 | It was called the hamilton Galleries and it was situated in Georges St ( its now Sothebys ) opposite to Erica Brausen of Hanover Gallery ( who died just recently ) . |
| 9 | Mr de Klerk telephoned Mrs Thatcher at the Conservative conference in Blackpool to tell her of the decision before it was announced in South Africa . |
| 10 | Says train-mad Waterman : ‘ I was desperate to buy it because it was made in Newton Le Willows , where I now live . |
| 11 | The key attraction of British Caledonian to SAS was that it was based in Gatwick airport — a key hub airport . |
| 12 | No direct comparison can be made with last year 's figures , as chairman Hugo Biermann reversed his company into a quoted shell company called Pathfinder Plc , and then changed its name to Maddox — because it was based in Maddox Street in London . |
| 13 | However , it was said in Rawlings v Till that physical restraint was a battery . |
| 14 | Let us remember that that assurance comes from British Rail , who , it was discovered in Committee proceedings on the Bill , designed platforms that were too short to take the trains that would come in to them . |
| 15 | It was noted in Chapter I that attempts in the early nineteenth century to put Beccaria 's classical programme into practice encountered severe difficulties : the desire to make punishment solely concerned with effective deterrence , rather than with equating suffering with desert , proved to be unacceptable on the grounds of its retributive injustice . |
| 16 | Another street at right angles to it was uncovered in Annetwell Street , where it was lined with timber buildings of second-century date , probably belonging to the fort . |
| 17 | In those days it was printed in Paternoster Place in the City . |
| 18 | The text of the lecture , which was available to guests on the night , was later updated to include the questions and answers and it was printed in booklet form . |
| 19 | Brian Rust 's book The Complete Entertainment Discography states that it was recorded in New York on 25 February 1925 , so this American Columbia electrical recording seems to be earlier , by one day . |
| 20 | ‘ But — my interview for last Friday , ’ Fabia questioned on a sudden dart of panic , ‘ it was recorded in Mr Gajdusek 's diary ? ’ |
| 21 | It was bought in Symonds Yat on the Gloucestershire / Herefordshire border six days ago . |
| 22 | It disappeared for centuries but in 1725 it was rediscovered in Ballinabeck graveyard in the parish of Scarva and is now in the National Museum in Dublin . |
| 23 | Perhaps the spiral designs originated in the ‘ Bandkeramik ’ of the Danube basin and arrived in Crete by way of the Cyclades , where stone pyxides were made with spiral ornaments ; but Stylianos Alexiou thinks it more likely that the spiral came from the Middle East , where it was used in gold wire jewellery from an early date . |
| 24 | George Wood conducted him to the parlour with reverence : high class was meeting great riches with talk of splicing these two irresistible institutions and it was happening in George Wood 's back parlour . |
| 25 | In deciding whether a contract exists it was stressed in Kleinwort Benson Ltd v Malaysian Mining Corp [ 1987 ] 1 WLR 799 and Edwards v Skyways Limited [ 1964 ] 1All ER 494 that a court will seek to ascertain what common intentions should be ascribed to the parties from the terms of the documents in question and the surrounding circumstances . |
| 26 | The court heard how in February 1977 he 'd jumped into Janie 's car while it was parked in West London and forced her to drive to the countryside at knife point . |
| 27 | Businessman Steve Murray is offering a reward for information leading to the successful prosecution of a thief who smashed into his Mercedes car and stole a computerised CD player while it was parked in Scarborough Street , Hartlepool . |
| 28 | HERE comes summer … and whether it was boating in Sefton Park , inset , or chasing a running prize , it all added to a warm day in the sunshine yesterday . |
| 29 | ‘ Why did you say it was got in Miss Pine 's ? |
| 30 | It was spoken in Lowland Scotland for many centuries and generated our first literature , indeed , Europe 's first literature outside Latin and Greek . |