Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against a dark background pieces of white card were moved in a plane perpendicular to the line of view until ‘ seen ’ . |
| 2 | The various approaches to CPD in the construction industry were reviewed in a report last year for the DOE and the Council for National Academic Awards . |
| 3 | The figures if the Revenue were to succeed in a Furniss v Dawson attack may , of course , be considerable . |
| 4 | In control subjects , 555–740 MBq ( 15–20 mCi ) of 9 9 m Tc labelled human albumin , methylene diphosphonate , or glucoheptonate were administered in a similar manner . |
| 5 | NINE rebels and a soldier were killed in a clash with Turkish security forces near the Syrian border , Ankara authorities said yesterday , adding claims that Kurdish separatists receive foreign support . |
| 6 | ( A 48-hour lull in violence in the occupied territories ended on June 25 when three Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed in a gun battle in the West Bank , and two Jews were reported stabbed to death in the Gaza Strip . ) |
| 7 | TWO male strippers and a clubgoer were arrested in a swoop by police at a Liverpool nightclub . |
| 8 | 1981 , Richard Helier and an associate were convicted in a federal court in Madison , Wisconsin , of numerous counts of diverting institutional funds ; later they were sentenced to three years in prison . |
| 9 | The deal was completed in a flat near the Palace … and Lucy even took her baby son Matthew along . |
| 10 | This experiment was performed in a growth room . |
| 11 | An uneasy atmosphere prevailed as an open-top jeep was located in a garage , and the bumpy ride was negotiated down to the marina . |
| 12 | Anushkia Smyslov had bandaged Alex Bannen 's head , and the physicist was propped in a sitting position against a workstation . |
| 13 | Another vivid example of this kind of reasoning was offered in a book on The Troublesome Boy ( 1936 ) by Dr H. S. Bryan , a medical officer in the child guidance service and an Assistant County Commissioner in the Boy Scouts , where he brought a little psychoanalytical inspiration to Scouting together with the romanticism of the movement 's founder . |
| 14 | The third ring was lost in a garden . |
| 15 | A report on the extent and nature of the feedback was included in a second document circulated to all schools in 1980 . |
| 16 | Their efforts came to fruition in September 1987 , when the monument was unveiled in a ceremony presided over RCAF Brigadier General Bill Newson , DSO , DFC . |
| 17 | The Ford car in which Ian Spiro fled after the shooting was discovered in a remote area 100 miles east of San Diego , near the Mexican border . |
| 18 | The closure was announced in a statement in Parliament which also revealed changes in store for most of the RAF 's other bases in the region . |
| 19 | The Beeching proposals have been criticized for the lack of serious consideration given to the possibility of retaining many unprofitable passenger services , and the case for closure was presented in a way that prejudged the final decision . |
| 20 | If the net loss was incurred in a currency other than pounds sterling and if an award in the currency would most fairly compensate the plaintiff for his loss , the court will award the damages in that currency ( The Despina R [ 1978 ] 3 WLR 804 , HL ) . |
| 21 | The command was given in a voice which did not rise above a whisper . |
| 22 | One indication of the black economy 's effect on decreased tax revenue was shown in a recent Inland Revenue report . |
| 23 | The government 's reply was contained in a white paper — Cmnd. 8616 : Efficiency and Effectiveness in the Civil Service . |
| 24 | On Aug. 17 a British army soldier was killed in a bomb explosion while on foot patrol on Co . |
| 25 | His foreign minister , Edouard Shevardnadze , by coincidence chose the day Mrs Thatcher 's greening was declared in a speech to the Royal Society ( 27 September 1988 ) to call for more co-operation in ‘ ecological security ’ . |
| 26 | His mind was going in a frenzy . ’ |
| 27 | Richard was not aware that he was no longer reasoning , hut allowing a series of overlapping images — the drawing of lord Jim , Tilda cooking — to act as a substitute for argument , so that his mind was working in a way not far different from Maurice 's , or Nenna 's . |
| 28 | Creggan was staring in a hostile way at this invasion of his territory but feeling too lazy to bother much about it when to his astonishment he heard a familiar and unpleasant voice say something unfamiliar and very strange indeed . |
| 29 | The programme was evaluated in a number of different ways , in order to produce a triangulation effect and thereby obtain as full a picture as possible of the functioning of the courses . |
| 30 | He had a powerful impression that the programme was happening in a vault . |