Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] london [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be argued that this was hastened in London by the Great Plague of 1665 when the familiar sight of cartloads of corpses contrasted with the decency and sanitary advantage of encoffining the dead . |
| 2 | The modern origin of this approach is the Special Patrol Group ( SPG ) which was formed in London in 1965 to act as a mobile anti-crime group to help local police forces to deal with the rising rate of urban crime . |
| 3 | Shareholders will be circulated with details of this ‘ in a matter of weeks ’ , according to yesterday 's statement , and they will be interested to hear the details of what was dismissed by London as a ‘ piece of financial engineering , pure and simple . ’ |
| 4 | He was posted to London on promotion in 1953 and was replaced the following year by R. B. Wilson on transfer from the field staff in England . |
| 5 | The appeal is named after Amar , a 10-year-old boy orphaned by the bombings in the marshlands , who was flown to London for plastic surgery at Guy 's Hospital . |
| 6 | A wealthy man , without flying experience , was flown from London to Paris by his pilot . |
| 7 | He was confined to London on a £2,000 bond . |
| 8 | After murdering the resulting child he was hanged in London in January 1679 . |
| 9 | Levels of photo-chemical smog are remarkably high in the Lakes and the environmental agency Greenpeace reported recently that in the summer of last year , when smog is most likely to occur , the World Health Organisation 's recommended safe limit was exceeded in London on one occasion only . |
| 10 | Phemister , who had taken part in early geophysical work by the Survey between 1926 and 1931 , was transferred to London in 1935 to be Chief Petrographer . |
| 11 | Warburg , whose scholarly tradition was transferred to London in 1933 when the entire library was moved there , has provided a link between London and Hamburg which shows every sign of strengthening over the coming years . |
| 12 | After the long sea journey , she was met in London by Mr Craven 's housekeeper , Mrs Medlock . |
| 13 | Sun Life Assurance employs 2500 employees and in 1976 the head office was relocated from London to Bristol . |
| 14 | The firm was based in Rotterdam , though it was reorganized in London in 1837 . |
| 15 | Engraved with a crest and supported on a cylindrical stem , the eye-bath was made in London in 1818 and had been discovered in the collection of a West Yorkshire couple . |
| 16 | Miss Stokes was presented in London with £1,000 and an engraved rosebowl by industrialist Baroness Denton . |
| 17 | The Design Effectiveness Award in the interior design , office and commercial category of the scheme organised by the British Design Business Association , was presented in London in December . |
| 18 | The service was operated in London by the Electrophone Company of Gerrard Street under licence from the National Telephone Company Ltd . |
| 19 | A Zoological Society was founded in London in 1826 to act as a showcase for Britain 's colonial possessions . |
| 20 | The influence of this critical forum has been exerted , above all , in the pages of Early music , a journal which was founded in London in 1973 to build a bridge between performers and scholars and which has been uniquely successful in doing so . |
| 21 | Corporate Culture was founded in London in 1986 , but countered the North-South drift with a switch to Liverpool a year later . |
| 22 | " Town " or coal gas was produced in London from the early 19th century until the 1970s , when it was finally replaced by natural gas . |
| 23 | The setting of the original novel by Mervyn Jones was shifted from London to New York because , says Yates , ‘ I did n't want any of this dreadful , clichéd Swinging London business creeping in . |
| 24 | , Emma ( 1838–1912 ) , evangelist , philanthropist , and manager of the Old Vic in the years before it was taken over by her niece Lilian Baylis [ q.v. ] , was born in London into a lower middle-class Anglo-German family . |
| 25 | , Edmund ( 1857–1934 ) , field ornithologist and author , was born in London at Holgate Lodge , Gloucester Road , Regent 's Park , 14 August 1857 , the youngest son in the family of two surviving sons and three daughters of Frederick Lokes Slous , a wealthy stockbroker , and his third wife Ann Holgate , daughter of John Sherborn . |
| 26 | Philip Edward Thomas was born in London on 3 March 1878 at 10 Upper Lansdowne Road North , now 14 Lansdowne Gardens , just off South Lambeth Road , where his parents occupied rooms let by a Mrs Legge . |
| 27 | Roger Edward Wentworth Manley was born in London on June 29 1930 and educated at King 's College School , Wimbledon , and London University . |
| 28 | Gerald Francis Sowerby was born in London on Nov 5 1905 . |
| 29 | John William Lowe was born in London on 24th September 1804 to a solicitor , William Lowe . |
| 30 | Henry ( Harry ) Tremayne Markham , who was expected around November 1st , was born in London on October 11th . |