Example sentences of "was [verb] in [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Need ’ was redefined in terms of learning difficulties significantly greater than those of the majority of children . |
| 2 | In November 1990 the Harms Commission , set up by the government to investigate allegations of political murders , had recommended an investigation of allegations that the CCB was implicated in assassinations of ANC activists . |
| 3 | Her extraordinary enthusiasm for her work ( including regular contributions to the Guardian and Observer ) , was registered in guffaws of delight at new discoveries and scoops . |
| 4 | All of this seemed to be well understood until early this century , because it was explained in terms of Newton 's theory of gravitation . |
| 5 | Whereas increased platelet adhesion was reported in diabetics with evidence of microvascular and macrovascular disease ( Mayne et al , 1970 ) , no increase in adhesion was found in diabetics with retinopathy ( Heath et al , 1971 ) . |
| 6 | The Mercury stated shortly afterwards that ‘ Three persons were took up on suspicion ’ and later that ‘ Ambrose Strange , who killed him , was hanged in chains on Tyler 's Heath for it . ’ |
| 7 | It was dispersed in terms of client groups . |
| 8 | Additionally , the exchange value of the dollar was pegged in terms of gold at the rate of $35 an ounce . |
| 9 | The result removed any lingering doubt on this issue and showed clearly that while the outcome of the Westminster elections was distorted in terms of seats secured by parties by the X-voting system the voting pattern roughly reflected the division in public opinion , ( see page 20 ) . |
| 10 | Information about resources was collected in terms of money spent on training and staff committed to the organization of training , the emphasis being on how far authorities and libraries are committing resources directly . |
| 11 | The increase in PGE 2 associated with Helicobacter pylori seems likely to be a consequence of the associated inflammatory cell infiltrate as it was seen in patients with type B ( chronic active ) but not with type C ( chemical ) gastritis , which is characterised by a paucity of inflammatory cells . |
| 12 | From the late sixteenth century the size of a domain was expressed in terms of the rice production it could command , and this assessment was made in terms of koku . |
| 13 | Alan set up the legal part of it and the political side and I would come in with the more spiritual side of it : the demand for separation from the Irish Presbyterian Church that was operating in cahoots with O'Neill at that time . |
| 14 | The problem was minimised in measurements on cells and tissues in vitro , however , and in small animals in vivo , by the ‘ flooding dose ’ technique , in which all amino acid pools are rapidly equilibrated to similar enrichments . |
| 15 | Another remarkable change in services was shown in slides of Sprinters standing in Ely station with Liverpool or Manchester on their destination boards . |
| 16 | One of the patients could not categorize the expression on faces that she was shown in photographs in terms of whether the expression was one of happiness , anger , surprise and so on . |
| 17 | He noted with interest that the cockpit instrument panel was remarkably similar to a car dash-board ; even the airspeed was shown in miles per hour instead of knots . |
| 18 | On and upward , slow now with the altitude telling on legs and lungs alike , the route was measured in numbers of steps before a rest was needed . |
| 19 | The tax obligation of each village was measured in terms of koku , as were the values of the stipends distributed by the daimyo to his followers . |
| 20 | Following the report in early 1990 by accountants Coopers and Lybrand into the activities of offshore financial businesses in the UK 's Caribbean dependent territories , it was agreed in talks in May between UK government officials and the Chief Minister , Emile Gumbs , that Anguilla 's Constitution would be amended ( by Order in Council within the next few months ) to allow the Governor to assume responsibility for the offshore financial sector . |
| 21 | It was low at first , then we could hear it rising until the whole auditorium was engulfed in gales of laughter at the poor preacher who had been duped by the Mau Maus . |
| 22 | This result was interpreted in terms of meaningfulness ' by Matsumiya , Tagliasco , Lombroso and Goodglass ( 1972 ) who showed in a separate study that inter-hemispheric asymmetry was greatest when subjects had to understand each stimulus word , and minimal when they could ignore the semantic content . |
| 23 | Nizan 's life chances were clearly and inalterably inscribed in his family situation long before he was born in Tours in February 1905 . |
| 24 | The big-spending Blackburn Rovers boss was locked in talks with Argyle manager Peter Shilton throughout yesterday in an attempt to finalise a player-plus-cash package . |
| 25 | Tonight , the moon was shrouded in rags of cloud and the wind flattened the grass and swiped at the trees as we passed . |
| 26 | She was small and plump and her hair was tied in bunches like spaniel 's ears . |
| 27 | But for the time being the whole field of myth was reinterpreted in terms of Dionysiac pessimism and thereby revitalized , gaining a new weight and significance . |
| 28 | Reggae was played in discos with sound systems which accentuated the beat . |
| 29 | They included members of a Mafia clan from Corleone in Sicily — the birthplace of fictional Godfather Don Corleone who was played in films by Marlon Brando . |
| 30 | The duration of symptoms did not show any significant differences among the different groups , although a tendency to a shorter duration of symptoms was noted in patients with oesophagitis Grade 0 , I , and II . |