Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | His brief for the speech was prepared by the DES and was leaked to the press in advance . |
| 2 | The tower was demolished by lightning in 1821 and since the present Abbey clock tower was erected on the site in 1822 the papingo has been placed there for every contest . |
| 3 | Specific binding was calculated as the difference in cell associated counts between incubations with [ 3 H ] omeprazole alone , and [ 3 H ] omeprazole plus unlabelled omeprazole . |
| 4 | The acute fall in calcium was calculated by the difference in the pretreatment CCa compared with the CCa at day 6 or 7 after pamidronate . |
| 5 | Contamination was calculated from the concentrations in the aspirated water ( Table IV ) ; this would have only minimally increased ( 0.2–7.4% ) these values , except for iron , for which the concentrations could therefore only be estimated ( 3.5 µM in normal gastric juice ) , assuming that about one third of the recorded values ( that is ca 1.7 µM ; Table III ) was a result of unavoidable contamination of samples . |
| 6 | Staff held a 48-hour strike last week and said a 72-hour strike would be held this week unless Paul Knight was reinstated at the home in Barnet . |
| 7 | In the face of resolute opposition , the bill was withdrawn from the Diet in November [ see p. 37859 ] . |
| 8 | Between 1984 and 1987 he was managing director of , a family owned business which was floated on the USM in 1985 and sold to in 1986 . |
| 9 | A key addition is the liberal , Mr Alexander Lilov , who was dismissed from the politburo in 1983 , without explanation , for differing with Mr Zhivkov . |
| 10 | Relations between the two deteriorated quickly thereafter , however , and Enrile was dismissed from the Cabinet in November 1986 [ see pp. 34870-72 ] . |
| 11 | Edward Bwanali , a veteran Minister hitherto seen as a possible successor to Banda , was dismissed from the Cabinet in the April reshuffle [ see p. 37558 ] , and in May was dismissed as MCP chairman for the populous southern region . |
| 12 | The man was stooped over the sign in a ragged butler 's outfit with trousers that were too short , exposing his white ankles . |
| 13 | It was heard by the men in the inn , and in a second they were out in the road , running into the darkness of the fields . |
| 14 | However , the success of societies in winning back a bigger market share of mortgage business from the banks was highlighted by the increase in gross home loan advances to £4,157million , a figure topped only once during 1989 . |
| 15 | This dichotomy was highlighted by the decision in Westminster City Council v. Ray Allen ( Manshops ) Ltd. ( 1982 D.C. ) . |
| 16 | As to the pieces themselves , the Samuel Gospels were conserved by the Bavarian Staatsbibliothek , while the rest was treated by the restorers in the Berlin Kunstgewerbemuseum . |
| 17 | The object of this latest project is Palermo Cathedral 's Chiaramonte crucifix , which dates from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century and was given to the cathedral in 1311 by Manfredo Chiaramonte . |
| 18 | But most publicity was given to the finding in the same poll that two-thirds of the French regarded Mr Le Pen as a positive ‘ danger for democracy ’ , while three quarters believed his party was ‘ incapable of governing France . ’ |
| 19 | Little thought was given to the conditions in which people who had no desire to leave the country of their birth had to live . |
| 20 | Tremendous publicity was given to the circumstances in which this movie had been made and to the way in which the director had shot some forty reels ; ‘ the eight-hour day for movie fans has not yet dawned ’ was the thankful comment of Robert Sherwood , but few critics doubted that the film conveyed much of the anger , ugliness , and brutality of the novel . |
| 21 | within 48 hours thereafter notice was given to the officer in charge of a police station . |
| 22 | Royal assent was given to the Bill in August . |
| 23 | The fact that consent was obtained by a trick or by fraud is irrelevant so long as the consent was given to the agent in his capacity as a mercantile agent . |
| 24 | But this man says his documents prove the trough was given to the town in 1907 and still belongs to the parish council . |
| 25 | Some indication of the court 's approach was given by the decision in George Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd. v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd. [ 1983 ] . |
| 26 | The secular and religious authority enjoyed by this clan was recognized over the years in an ever wider area of the country , and during the seventh century the head of the clan used the title of emperor or empress on the Chinese model . |
| 27 | As was recognized in the US in the 1960s ( David , 1965 ) , the social services have the potential for providing rewarding and socially useful employment for a large proportion of the work-force that can not be absorbed by other sectors of the labour market . |
| 28 | Production efficiency was optimised by the growth in the fleece business already referred to . |
| 29 | They included Henri de Lubac , later to be raised to the rank of cardinal , though only after he had retreated from the more extreme position on the relationship between nature and grace he had adopted in 1946 in his book Surnaturel ; Marie-Dominique Chenu , one of whose books was placed on the Index in 1942 for daring to suggest that Thomas Aquinas ought to be studied against the history of his times ; and Yves Congar , who survived to become one of the leading theologians of Vatican II . |
| 30 | He collaborated with his friend Conrad Beck , the optical manufacturer , in applying these improvements to a production model , and the Beck–Barnard instrument , the first really efficient ultraviolet microscope , was placed on the market in 1929 . |