Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probe size and labelling was checked by electrophoresis in urea polyacrylamide denaturing gels . |
| 2 | After the brief administration of Sosuke Uno , Kaifu was plucked from obscurity in order to act as caretaker Prime Minister until such time as the Recruit scandal had receded . |
| 3 | But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor . |
| 4 | Similar work was undertaken by women in shoe-making . |
| 5 | She was gazing at Pike in bewilderment . |
| 6 | The idea of using social network as a speaker variable was developed in Belfast in response to an explicit hypothesis concerning the capacity of closeknit networks to function in society as a norm enforcement mechanism . |
| 7 | A PLAYFUL toddler was crushed to death in front of her parents in a tragic accident yesterday . |
| 8 | When the time came for Annie to leave the convent school she was recommended for training in child welfare . |
| 9 | Forty-eight hours earlier , the Cabinet had agreed in principle to the Big Five's recommended savings of 70 million , of which nearly 50 million was to come from cuts in unemployment benefits . |
| 10 | On Feb. 25 , 1988 , declaring unconstitutional an earlier call by the President for the resignation of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno as the Commander of the Defence Forces , the Legislative Assembly resolved to dismiss both Delvalle and Vice-President Roderick Esquivel ; the Education Minister , Manuel Solís Palma , was installed as Minister in charge of the Presidency of the Republic on Feb. 26 [ see p. 35818 ] . |
| 11 | In Nicaragua , the US embassy in Managua was surrounded by troops in retaliation for American troops ringing the Nicaraguan embassy in Panama City . |
| 12 | Subsequently Rasbora Ltd. , a company incorporated in Jersey , was substituted as buyer in place of Mr. Atkinson . |
| 13 | The service was organised by clergy in response to calls from local people who wanted help to cope with their grief . |
| 14 | Under the first three Edwards when the government was located in York in order to conduct the war against the Scots — or to evade political constraints at Westminster — the archbishop of York 's household became an important source of royal clerks , especially during Melton 's tenure of the see ( 1316–40 ) ; these Yorkshire clerks dominated the chancery of Edward II and were also influential in the exchequer and wardrobe . |
| 15 | But they are not , as was argued at length in Chapter 3 . |
| 16 | There had already been examples in the fifties , notably Delmer Daves 's Broken Arrow , Robert Aldrich 's Apache and Sam Fuller 's Run of the Arrow , but it began a new trend in which the Western was appropriated by directors in order to express their liberal views . |
| 17 | When the Consultative Report was issued in November , ( reproduced in ACCOUNTANCY , December 1992 , p 147 ) a tight deadline of 31 January 1993 was imposed on members in order that the Institute would be able to respond promptly to members ' current needs . |
| 18 | Abraham was accepted by God in virtue of what Christ would do upon the cross by bearing the curse of the broken law upon his representative shoulders : men living after the cross could be accepted by God as they put their trust in what God had done for them through Jesus . |
| 19 | Political as it was , it was made by Queen in Council and can not be overturned by a mere change of government . |
| 20 | Detailed information was presented to IBOA in response to the queries that were raised . |
| 21 | TUBE passenger Jonathan Zito was stabbed to death in front of his brother just after they had been reunited for Christmas . |
| 22 | Unlike the nineteen thirty-nine version for which the moors were re-created in Hollywood , this one was shot on location in north Yorkshire . |
| 23 | Indeed , the influence of the duke was sought at Court in order to secure the King 's permission , and Brigadier Preston argued in support of the transaction that |
| 24 | This letter was written to Osbald in exile , two years after he had failed to take Alcuin 's advice and enter a monastery . |
| 25 | In Manchester a similar service was offered by Support in Debt founded , also in 1987 , by Stuart Giles who three years later was appealing for £500,000 to keep it going . |
| 26 | In part this was attributed to inequalities in access and utilisation . |
| 27 | Counterpoint of the fugato or canonic type was used as accompaniment in Baroque times , but has now largely fallen out of use , as it fails to express individual mood or atmosphere . |
| 28 | The traditional bourgeois ethic , puritan or secular , had ascribed this to moral or spiritual feebleness rather than to lack of intellect , for it was evident that not much in the way of brains was needed for success in business , and conversely that mere brains did not guarantee wealth and still less ‘ sound ’ views . |
| 29 | With the patient on his left side anaesthesia was induced with halothane in oxygen and small increments of propofol intravenously . |
| 30 | Then , some time later , Francis Greenway was accused of forgery in connection with a building contract made shortly before the failure ; and , tried at Bristol assizes on 23 March 1812 , he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to transportation for life . |