Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ The odds were stacked against Fiji in the World Cup , having to play in France , in the mountains at night , in the freezing cold of Grenoble in the Alps . ’ |
| 2 | New centres at Harpenden and Old Welwyn were established and Tutorial Classes were arranged at branches in Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City . |
| 3 | XXVIII PRESBYTERY OF ISLAY BOWMORE After the Disruption in 1843 , occasional services were arranged for Bowmore in connection with Killarrow . |
| 4 | The photographs were arranged behind glass in a small anteroom above the door of which was printed the legend : ‘ The Martyrs of Hama ’ . |
| 5 | In all , well over sixty different specific activities were listed by heads in this context , including cooking for special occasions , a paired play project with a neighbouring special school , and the development of links with local elderly people . |
| 6 | Both were assassinated in Washington in 1976 by a car bomb [ see pp. 28273-74 ; 34989 ; 36097 ; 37709 ; 37914 ] . |
| 7 | Henry Marston ( 25 ) , a Constable with the Liverpool City Police , and Angus Gray ( 28 ) , an ex-Constable , were remanded in custody in Liverpool … charged with breaking into Beaumont Street Post Office and stealing a safe and contents valued at £500 . |
| 8 | Following a two-year investigation by Spanish police into terrorist kidnappings ( including that of businessman Emiliano Revilla in 1988 — see p. 35746 ) , four alleged members of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left ( MIR ) were remanded in custody in Madrid after their arrest on Jan. 14 , accused of links with the Basque separatist organization ETA . |
| 9 | Perhaps Gladys would join the group of Leicester ladies who were fluttering with anticipation in the back corner . |
| 10 | His grandfather was Hugh Ronald , brother of Jean and Ann , who were immortalised by Burns in the poem The Ronalds of the Bennals . |
| 11 | The company says its experience this time through is different from when the first Snakes were delayed by shortfalls in the Texas Instruments Inc-produced floating point unit because it 's controlling all design and all fabrication . |
| 12 | Twenty-eight ambulance and paramedic staff were placed on standby in Northwich . |
| 13 | Specific limitations were placed on contact in the example above . |
| 14 | The Committee accepted the prototypes first , which duly arrived in January 1934 and were placed on display in Talbot Square ( Opposite ) . |
| 15 | AS Israeli leaders met to discuss the latest Middle East peace moves , nearly a million Palestinians were placed under curfew in the occupied territories to forestall trouble during today 's second anniversary of the intifada . |
| 16 | Even so , the Council of Guardians were intent on keeping the peace ; weapons were forbidden and royal serjeants-at-arms were placed in groups in the shadowy recesses of the hall . |
| 17 | The students were placed in pairs in three secondary comprehensive schools with which the advisory teacher was familiar . |
| 18 | It caused a lot of financial pain to a lot of people , and especially to the fast operators in the City who were over-extended with investments in secondary stocks and flashy shell companies . |
| 19 | Early on , working in tandem with John Higgs , he had brought in the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group and the Nature Conservancy Council to look at all the farms on the estate to make sure they were farming with conservation in mind . |
| 20 | In evidence presented to the commission in the first few months , details were given of irregularities in the handling and documentation in Antigua of the shipment of arms from Israel and their discovery in Colombia . |
| 21 | Promises were given at Sunningdale in 1973 that articles 2 and 3 were to be withdrawn and were repeated before Hillsborough in 1985 . |
| 22 | Similar arguments for the need for flexibility were given by employers in the entertainments industry who recruit their seasonal staff on open-ended contracts and , more particularly , by employers In the holiday camps sector . |
| 23 | The samples ( + 1 g ground to 100–125 micron ) were heated in duplicate in steel autoclaves in an inert atmosphere at an initial pressure of 1 bar . |
| 24 | Most recently , in July 1991 , two fine Balthasar Denner heads of ‘ Old Women ’ were withdrawn from sale in London when it was learned that they had been looted from the Dresden Museum . |
| 25 | The 38 captured guerrillas were extradited from Laos in January 1990 . |
| 26 | Rules limiting the use of evidence in trials were eased for cases in which the defendants were suspected members of organized criminal gangs . |
| 27 | Hortense and her sons also went into exile , for all the Bonapartes were banished from France in perpetuity , by a decree of Louis XVIII , and as a result of the hostility of the major European States Hortense had great difficulty in finding some corner of Europe where she could set up home . |
| 28 | The item states ‘ Guests at a luxury hotel were poisoned by cyanide in the swimming pool yesterday . |
| 29 | These demands , reportedly based on views expressed in local Basic People 's Congresses , were criticized by Kadhafi in his congressional address on March 6 , on the grounds that they were not representative of true public opinion . |
| 30 | Middlesbrough , however , were overhauled by Wirral in the second half of the fixture and had to be content with second place . |