Example sentences of "was [vb pp] in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dating of the volcanic rocks of the Hawaiian Islands has shown that each of the main islands was formed in about 1 Ma . |
| 2 | There are rumours that the mill was used as recently as 1923 , although no records confirm this , and the mill race was filled in by 1958 . |
| 3 | Not that she intended accepting any favours from him , but she knew he was booked in for two nights , which gave her time to return his hospitality if she could not manipulate tonight into a Dutch treat . |
| 4 | And then it was thanks for the drinks and time to get back as another gang of wallies was booked in for one o'clock . |
| 5 | The ladies ' K4 500m was slotted in at this point and although Dallaway/Davey/Eastwood/Thorogood were 8th in their heat they went into a semi final which acted as a repêchage . |
| 6 | She made her way up to the hotel bedroom and was let in by one of the porters . |
| 7 | Then I drove into his space well then somebody else came and drove in behind me and the car in front then was sort of , oh yeah , then somebody else came and reversed in in front of him , so the car in front it was across the drive was boxed in by this time , I did n't box him in I just |
| 8 | The 46-year-old Exeter manager was drafted in for last month 's win over France at Wembley as the England manager cast around for a successor to the disgraced Steve Harrison . |
| 9 | The three alien forms were originally to be realized by Roger Dicken ; but he completed the small forms only , and Rambaldi was called in at short notice to do the Alien head . |
| 10 | He was called in at short notice due to the unfortunate motor accident involving Design Director , Bill Naysmith . |
| 11 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 12 | Chester had put together a deal for the centre which would have cost the Government nothing because it was tied in with private sector development . |
| 13 | There was little public knowledge of the extent to which intelligence tests had already become part of the machinery of secondary selection by 1940 , nor how far their use was tied in with that of standardised tests of attainment in English and arithmetic , which were provided , marked and correlated by the same person or organisation . |
| 14 | Benazir Bhutto , leader of the Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) which had gained the largest number of seats in elections to the National Assembly held on Nov. 16 , 1988 ( see pp. 36347-48 ) , was sworn in as Prime Minister on Dec. 2 , and a new federal Cabinet was appointed on Dec. 4 . |
| 15 | On April 26 Esko Aho , 36 , was sworn in as Prime Minister of a four-party centre-right coalition . |
| 16 | On May 16 Edith Cresson , 57 , was sworn in as Prime Minister , replacing Michel Rocard . |
| 17 | Prime Minister : Begum Khaleda Zia was sworn in as Prime Minister in March 1991 , and from October also held the portfolios of Defence , Establishment and Cabinet Division . |
| 18 | On July 13 Itzhak Rabin , chair of the Israel Labour Party since February , was sworn in as Prime Minister and announced the composition of his Cabinet . |
| 19 | On Dec. 17 Franz Vranitzky was sworn in as Federal Chancellor at the head of a " grand coalition " of his own Socialist Party ( SPÖ ) and the centre-right People 's Party ( ÖVP ) . |
| 20 | Biju Patnaik of Janata Dal was sworn in as Chief Minister on March 5 , replacing Hemandanda Biswal , who had held the post for Congress ( I ) since early December . |
| 21 | D. Ramachandran of the DMK was sworn in as Chief Minister on March 8 , replacing M. O. H. Farooq of Congress ( I ) . |
| 22 | On April 6 Churchill Alemao was sworn in as Chief Minister at the head of a Progressive Democratic Front ( PDF ) government . |
| 23 | President 's rule , in force in Goa for 43 days , was lifted on Jan. 25 , when the leader of a breakaway group of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party ( MGP ) , Ravi S. Naik , was sworn in as Chief Minister . |
| 24 | Jayalalitha , the A-IADMK general secretary , was sworn in as Chief Minister on June 24 . |
| 25 | Meade , who had accused the Osborne administration of corruption and mismanagement and promised to restore honesty and integrity in government , was sworn in as Chief Minister on Oct. 10 . |
| 26 | President 's rule , which had been imposed in December after the PDF 's main component , the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party ( MGP ) , withdrew from the PDF , was lifted in late January 1991 and the leader of the breakaway MGP group , Ravi S. Naik , was sworn in as Chief Minister [ see p. 37915 ; 37964 ] . |
| 27 | The BJP defeated Congress ( I ) in State Assembly elections held in February 1990 ; Sunderlal Patwa was sworn in as Chief Minister , replacing Shyama Charan Shukla [ see p. 37245 ] . |
| 28 | K. Vijayabhaskara Reddy was sworn in as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on Oct. 9 to replace N. Janardhan Reddy , who resigned after the High Court ruled that permission to open a private medical college in Nellore , granted to Reddy 's wife , had been " vitiated by bias " . |
| 29 | Gonzalo Menendez Park was sworn in as Foreign Minister on Oct. 22 , replacing Alvaro Arzú Irigoyen who had resigned in September [ see p. 38432 ] . |
| 30 | Following the presidential elections on May 7 , 1989 , the result of which was annulled by Noriega on May 10 [ see p. 36645 ] , Francisco Rodríguez , a close friend of Noriega and former comptroller general of the treasury , was sworn in as provisional President on Sept. 1 [ see p. 36846 ] . |