Example sentences of "was in [noun] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Sudan 's debt burden eased slightly in the second half of the 1980s , no real turn-around in the economic situation was in sight at the end of the decade . |
| 2 | It has been suggested that Penda 's political power was in eclipse at the time and that Eowa was the dominant ruler among the Mercians as a subject king of the northern Angles from the mid-630s until his death , possibly in Oswald 's army , in the battle at Maserfelth , but there is no reason why Penda and Eowa should not have been ruling jointly , with Eowa as king possibly of the northern Mercians and Penda as king of the southern . |
| 3 | The concentrations of ClO remained extremely low during these periods because air at the temperature minimum was in darkness at the model output time ( 00:00 ) . |
| 4 | I know Marie Thwaites was in service at the time she was courting John . |
| 5 | Where the nuisance was in existence at the time the abatement notice was served , and continued or was likely to recur at the time proceedings for a nuisance order began then whether or not it was continuing or was likely to recur at the date of the hearing , the court must also order the defendant to pay the local authority the cost of the proceedings to obtain the nuisance order . |
| 6 | The judge referred to a previous decision of his , In re H. ( Minor ) ( Abduction ) [ 1990 ] 2 F.L.R. 439 , but he said that that was to be distinguished because in that case there was in existence at the time of the removal an order of the court that the child should not be removed from the jurisdiction . |
| 7 | If no lease was in existence at the time when the accused made the false representation , it is believed that the accused would not be guilty under s.15 of obtaining possession of the land by deception because he would not have the intention permanently to deprive . |
| 8 | It turns out he was in France at the time of the murder , ’ replied Bridget . |
| 9 | When I was in Germany at the end of the war , I met hundreds of Germans who tried to explain this to me . |
| 10 | In 1369 a trebuchet , used for slinging stones , was employed at the siege of La-Roche-sur-Yon , and in 1356–7 another was in evidence at the siege of Rennes ; as late as 1378 another was in use before Cherbourg , having been brought there in pieces and assembled on the spot . |
| 11 | Conversely , the landlord will not be entitled to maintain an advertisement on any part of the demised property , even if the advertisement was in position at the beginning of the tenancy ( Re Webb 's Lease [ 1952 ] Ch 808 ) . |
| 12 | Dittmar 's wife , Lyan , was in tears at the end , but the Australian was mostly impervious to emotion , already concentrating , as he said , on today 's final against the other great Pakistani Khan , Jansher , the 1987 world champion . |
| 13 | However strange this was to us , it was genuinely moving to the Chinese audience , and Comrade Chang , the cadre , sitting on my left , was in tears at the end of a sequence mourning the death of Chou . |
| 14 | The English chronicler , Roger of Howden , who was in Rome at the time , saw both of them as papabile and ambitious for the papal throne . |
| 15 | She was in credit at the time too . |
| 16 | If the plaintiff was in possession at the time of the conversion , the defendant could not set up the jus tertii , unless he was acting under the authority of the true owner . |
| 17 | She was in Australia at the time and her then husband looked at the picture and said , ‘ Oh , he 's a poof . ’ |
| 18 | Cardinal Paolo Evaristo Arns , Archbishop of Sao Paolo , was in Belgium at the time of her death and would have liked to have said her Requiem Mass . |
| 19 | Jacob was in fact at the Plaza Hotel dining with Violette . |
| 20 | In De Martell , the plaintiff 's complaint is of negligence by medical staff when the plaintiff 's mother was in labour at the time of her delivery and his birth . |
| 21 | The policy in question was in force at the date of occurrence . |
| 22 | What Mr Major should have said , if he was intent on justifying his decision , was that many of the executions were grotesque by any civilised standards , but that they accorded with the code of discipline that was in force at the time . |
| 23 | The tribunal was influenced by the facts that the offence was unconnected with his job and he was given no opportunity to state his own case because he was in prison at the time of the dismissal decision . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , he was in Switzerland at the time . |
| 25 | I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea . |
| 26 | I did not ask for more money — I was in Bayreuth at the time . ’ |
| 27 | A former British government official who was in Bonn at the time of Operation Ward declined to comment on the authenticity of the material , but told The Independent yesterday : ‘ It is obvious that if attacks are going on , you should try and get informers . ’ |
| 28 | Tyrion was in Avelorn at the court of Alarielle , the newly crowned Everqueen , when the Dark Elves came . |
| 29 | Minister of State for Agriculture Brian O'Shea revealed that a total of £360,623,000 worth of food was in intervention at the end of last month . |
| 30 | ( ba ) in the case of a recognised body which has at least one registered foreign lawyer as a director , member or beneficial owner of a share , the name or part of the name of a predecessor legal practice which was in practice at the time of the formation of the body , provided that such name consisted of the name or names of present or former principals and conventional references to such persons and to the practice ; |