Example sentences of "and was [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1970 the former was negotiating an ambitious first degree scheme with the CNAA , which was explained by the Vice-Provost as more fully meeting the needs of students , employers and society , and was presented in the belief that ‘ polytechnics should develop a degree pattern which includes an increasing amount of interdisciplinary study ’ . |
| 2 | The facade survived intact and was incorporated in the rebuilding , which was completed in 1932 . |
| 3 | The Diploma in Industrial Administration was part of the first batch of national developments and was completed in the Summer of 1989 . |
| 4 | This was the first operating profit since 1986 and was achieved in the face of continuing recession in our major markets and weaker exchange rates . |
| 5 | One end of a curved steel needle , which was called a prick , was inserted in a hole in the top of a knitting sheath , a traditional carved stick which held the needle firm and was placed in the knitter 's belt . |
| 6 | He asked the first policeman he saw the way to London University and was pointed in the direction of the Strand . |
| 7 | The Treasury accepted that a five-year programme of public investment should be planned , and that if it failed to prove adequate to secure full employment , then changes in taxes to encourage private investment and consumption should be made , but the question of budget deficits remained a bone of contention and was fudged in the report . |
| 8 | The investment was worth £500,000 and was made in the form of preference shares . |
| 9 | It is possible to identify something of a backlash against Edward 's policies , but it occurred in October , rather than May , 1483 and was subsumed in the rebellion against Richard III . |
| 10 | It is possible to identify something of a backlash against Edward 's policies , but it occurred in October , rather than May , 1483 and was subsumed in the rebellion against Richard III . |
| 11 | From 1845 Birch entered into partnership with his elder brother and was engaged in the building of railways , viaducts , and bridges during the expansion of railways . |
| 12 | More entertainingly , it emerges that until 1972 Ridgeway Consultants was known as Rol-Oyo and was engaged in the business of making and selling ice cream and pastry products . |
| 13 | The southern arm aimed towards the floodplain of the River Arrow , and was constructed in the middle of the second century . |
| 14 | David Cornish , a ship 's stoker , was among the members of his ship 's crew captured by the German raider Manyo Maru and was kept in the raider 's hold for five weeks on black bread , ersatz coffee , fat , margarine and jam while the raider roamed the seas attacking fresh victims in the Indian Ocean . |
| 15 | At this point , the chairman of the governors suggests that the job should be redefined so the post is offered to Valerie Way and was recorded in the sub-committee 's minutes in the following terms : |
| 16 | For example , when Rome 's first sundial was brought to the city from Sicily in 263 BC , during the first Punic war , and was erected in the Forum it was inaccurate because it indicated the time appropriate to the place whence it came which was more than four degrees to the south . |
| 17 | Lambert blinked to rid his eyes of a sudden haziness and then the German was on him , with a curiously muffled stutter that swelled and was lost in the bellow of their engines as they passed in a blaze of flashing muzzles and white-hot exhausts and shinning propeller blades . |
| 18 | It contained the will of Doctor Henry Jekyll , and was written in the doctor 's own handwriting . |
| 19 | The next day he rescued one of his men from a shell crater and was shot in the back by a sniper . |
| 20 | There were two versions of the film , in the violent version a small boy had been playing outside the bank and was shot in the face as the robbers made their getaway . |
| 21 | Wycliffe went in search of Sara and was received in the drawing-room . |
| 22 | It subsequently emerged that Lady Essex had been administering debilitating potions to her husband and was implicated in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury , who knew too much about this . |
| 23 | In the meantime all we have is the popular version that Blake was befriended by a 32-year-old Irishman , Sean Bourke , who at the time was coming to the end of a seven-year sentence and was living in the prison hostel just inside the perimeter wall of the prison but allowed to go out to work each day on parole . |
| 24 | Adrian 's dad trudged off down the school and was invited in the Headmaster 's office . |
| 25 | This proposal also extends to corresponding sections in the SGSA 1982 and was included in the Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 . |
| 26 | Such a picture has been drawn by Penrose , and was included in the paper of Matzner and Tipler ( 1984 ) . |
| 27 | The chimes of bells which stood in every district of the city were being rung as they sat down — both because the ringers had been amply bribed and because they thought it politic to honour Artai and his chief supporter — and a small orchestra of trumpets and tambours had been hired by a steward and was accommodated in the yard , so that Burun 's speech of welcome to his guests , as well as their affable replies , were conducted with much opening and shutting of mouths and a deal of dumb show . |
| 28 | I was met by , British Council A.C.E. Officer , and was accommodated in the CIEFL guest-house . |
| 29 | He embarked on his career of gillie in 1849 as Prince Albert 's gillie , and was mentioned in the queen 's journal on 11 September 1849 as ‘ young J. Brown ’ who looked after her on an outing . |
| 30 | He was found guilty and was imprisoned in the Tower of London , where he died very quickly , probably from medical neglect and ill treatment , aged only forty-seven . |