Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] in [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users .
2 The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users .
3 The trials were explained in detail to all the local , regional , and district authorities and paramount chiefs , who gave their approval .
4 These reasons were given in response to an open question and more than one reason was allowed .
5 Three petitions containing more than 2,200 signatures were received in opposition to the proposals for Dixon 's Bank , Marton .
6 Around 650 responses of this kind were received in time to be included in the analysis .
7 The race itself was very well organised but I was absolutely amazed at the way in which the winning women were treated in comparison to the winning men during the prize giving ceremony later on .
8 Two opposition groups were formed in response to the constitutional changes .
9 All drugs were dissolved in dimethylformamide to 2 mM solutions and stored in the dark at -20°C .
10 These lessons were contained in revisions to the constitution and in the explanatory legislation that codified its clauses .
11 Culture supernatants , cleared of cell debris by centrifugation at 5000RPM for 15min , were added in triplicate to coated wells and incubated for 2hrs at RT .
12 The central problem in this research revolved around exploring how labels such as ‘ child at risk ’ , ‘ abused child ’ and ‘ child in need of care ’ , were applied in practice to particular cases .
13 Stated briefly , these theories argued that employees would demonstrate high levels of effort and performance if their social and intellectual growth needs were met in addition to the desire for mere financial reward .
14 In essence , the views of practising English teachers were sought in order to :
15 If this book were written in proportion to the number of species in the group the rest of it would have to be devoted to the insects .
16 Approximately 5 105 plaques of a human fetal brain ZAP II cDNA library ( Stratagene ; Catalog Nr.936206 ) were transferred in duplicates to Plaquescreen Filters ( DuPont ) and then screened with a randomly primed mixture of 5 106 cpm of radiolabelled POU domain DNA fragments of the oct-2 cDNA ( pos. 586–1077 ) and the oct-6 cDNA ( pos. 706–1232 ; generously provided by Dr. Hans Schöler , Heidelberg ) according to standard procedures described in detail in chapter 6.3 in [ 16 ] .
17 The centralized bureaucratic apparatus of the state became subordinated to the interests of the dominant economic groups that were already creating a commercial agriculture and would subsequently promote industrial development : ‘ for the first time a state had been created whose policies and activities were shaped in response to the needs and movement of civil society ’ ( Gamble 1981 : 67 ) .
18 The root of the problem is located in the culturally inappropriate methods which were adopted in response to this evangelistic and pastoral challenge .
19 The new movement 's influence was undermined by its manifold divisions : Guevarists , Castroites and Maoists proliferated into further factions as differing positions were adopted in response to the rapid succession of events in the 1960s .
20 There , uniform high-yielding varieties were adopted in preference to more varied native ones .
21 The allegations were made in evidence to the inquiry into the Bank of Credit and Commerce International 's £10 billion collapse
22 The first appointments were made in January to a new Cabinet of Ministers , created as part of the restructuring of the senior government leadership approved in December .
23 In both 1978 and 1986 the Library Association 's statements were made in response to censorship in a number of public libraries , largely instigated by local authorities ; and the appeal was directed to the local authorities .
24 In all the schools studied , project awards were made in response to an appropriate set of circumstances and events .
25 It is , of course , undeniable that they were made in response to events in Mozambique and Angola .
26 Couple of points that were made in relation to this particular report was the backing by the employee side , erm , to the wages board initiative that took when we wrote to the government saying that we felt that the abolition of the wages board was not in the best interests erm , of the people of Lincolnshire .
27 At least some of these errors may be due in part to individual differences in dialect and incorrect pronunciation , but these four examples were produced in response to correctly spoken words in a spelling test .
28 Additional communication and media production services were offered in addition to the lending of publications and documents .
29 However , on 30 June we were told in response to inquiries by the court that she had not taken solid food since 21 June and that , although she had maintained a fluid intake of 12 cups of tea a day , her weight had dropped from 39 kg. on 16 June to 35.1 kg. on 30 June .
30 The elections originally scheduled for Feb. 16 [ see pp. 38518 ; 38664 ] were postponed in response to opposition calls for polling to take place in May .
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