Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] in the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response rate to a long and detailed questionnaire was good : 47 schools replied in the June survey and 41 in the November survey . |
| 2 | Policemen standing yards from where 95 soccer fans died in the Hillsborough football stadium disaster were last night expecting disciplinary charges . |
| 3 | She wished her parents lived in the Aran Islands and that there could be no question of her having to go home every night . |
| 4 | His parents lived in the Balmoral suburb of south Belfast . |
| 5 | And from the ‘ land of oranges ’ , the new exiles arrived in the West Bank and in Lebanon and in the Kingdom of Transjordan with an identity — as ‘ Palestinians ’ — that applied to a country that no longer existed , that indeed never did exist as an independent nation . |
| 6 | In the early 1920s , 300 to 500 automobile companies existed in the United States ; by 1960 , only 4 remained . |
| 7 | A TOTAL of one hundred Mark V Spitfires serialled in the BP/BR ranges that were flown to Abbotsinch and Renfrew follow , as per Spitfire — The History Morgan & Shacklady , Key Publishing 1987 and , as the dates coincide , are assumed to include those transported to the Mediterranean by the USS Wasp . |
| 8 | After the devaluation of sterling , equity holdings in continental Europe were sold and the proceeds reinvested in the UK . |
| 9 | Powerful environmental mass movements emerged in the Ukraine , Belarus and the Baltic states ; and they , in turn , were gradually transformed into nationalistic ‘ people 's fronts ’ , whose members won seats in local parliaments and advocated full independence from Moscow and the end of the communist empire . |
| 10 | Can my right hon. Friend comment on the recent improvements unveiled in the Guy 's hospital patients charter , with 3 , 500 more patients treated in the first six months , with better staff conditions and with lower waiting lists ? |
| 11 | While Syria made the appropriate public disclaimers , insisting it was serious about eradicating drugs and denying sanctuary to terrorists headquartered in the Bekaa Valley , Washington could take no independent action without risking the charge of meddling in Syria 's internal affairs and thereby still further inflaming Arab sensitivities throughout the Middle East . |
| 12 | He built a prototype which for nearly a hundred years lay in the Smithsonian Institution , Washington DC . |
| 13 | ‘ It is still too early to say whether the peak in unemployment has passed , but the likelihood of sustained increases in unemployment in the months to come recedes with each monthly fall , ’ officials said in the June monthly monetary report . |
| 14 | The whole place was thronged , with people lining the streets , beer glass in hand , or crowding round the roped-off area where the bands competed in the King George V Playing Fields . |
| 15 | In those studies with lower prevalences it must be presumed that dampness was not regarded as incontinence ( although the words ‘ damp pants ’ were included in the questions asked in the MORI poll ) . |
| 16 | While the principles enunciated in the London Conference 's closing declaration were in line with those which had guided the EC 's peace efforts since mid-1991 , the conference represented a widening of the peace process to include the CSCE , countries neighbouring the region , and Moslem countries . |
| 17 | Gainsharing is favoured in many US hospitals , where surveys highlighted in the RNC report show that managers and nurses feel PRP is a potential demotivator . |
| 18 | Many different varieties of apples emerged in the US and its apple industry was set in motion by Henderson Luelling — a fortune hunter who went west during the gold rush in a covered wagon full of soil and apple trees . |
| 19 | A year from now , in all likelihood , the world will look back on a merely disappointing year of little or no growth in Britain and America , of solid progress in Germany and Japan , of catastrophes skirted in the Gulf and the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | Over 1,000 convoys arrived in the Mersey during the course of the war , an average of three or four each week . |
| 21 | Before 1845 only in one year had more than 100,000 foreign passengers arrived in the United States . |
| 22 | A spokesman for the Soil Association , which monitors organic farming , said that the production of wholly pesticide-free food was impossible , due to residues in rain and groundwater , but that such accidental pollution could not explain the high levels discovered in the Warwickshire tests . |
| 23 | The first artiodactyls appeared in the Eocene epoch , 57 to 37 million years ago . |
| 24 | Its façade and finest decorative features appeared in the New Zealand film Pictures . |
| 25 | The establishments were closed immediately and some time later the main details appeared in the Dublin press . |
| 26 | He said the board 's meetings were held in secret and only two of the non-executive board members lived in the Cleveland area . |
| 27 | A number of Farnham members rode in the Farnham to Winchester and back 53-mile reliability cycle ride . |
| 28 | As training and hire costs are comparatively low int he USA and certain other countries , it 's not altogether surprising that our young , impecunious hopefuls feel frustrated at the much higher prices asked in the UK . |
| 29 | On Jan. 7 demonstrations erupted in the Gaza Strip against the planned deportation of 12 Palestinians [ see this page ] . |
| 30 | When Yerkes died in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel his empire was taken over by the son of a Derbyshire coach-maker , Albert Henry Stanley . |