Example sentences of "london were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Significantly no places within 10 miles of London were contacted about the convention and a delegation from the old Anti-Slavery Society was only suggested at the last moment . |
| 2 | Visitors attending the Festival of Underwater Sport held at Crystal Palace in London were met on their arrival by a large contingent of members from the Lewisham branch who had arranged a bucket collection and an indoor souvenir stall . |
| 3 | Mortimer swore that he intended no harm to Lancaster , and the Bishops of Winchester and London were sent to persuade him to attend after all . |
| 4 | Fifteen months had passed since the end of the Great War , and now the docks and wharves of London were filling up with produce and commodities of all kinds . |
| 5 | It seemed , nevertheless , early in 1956 that Washington and London were drawing together in opposition to Nasser . |
| 6 | New Oxford Street and Victoria Street in central London were built partly for this purpose . |
| 7 | When in 1619 , to take an illuminating example , all the foreign ambassadors in London were invited to watch a display of tilting on the birthday of James I the occasion provided a remarkable exhibition of the complications which could arise . |
| 8 | As the date of abolition ( April 1986 ) drew nearer , activists in London were determined that the momentum should not be lost in this area of local government work . |
| 9 | Patrick awoke again as the church bells all across London were tolling noon . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly , areas to the west of London were encountering severe shortages of skilled and even unskilled labour by the mid-1980s , a time of real and substantial unemployment in the older industrialized regions . |
| 11 | As property prices in London were moving upwards , Eva 's shrewd plan was to decorate the flat as we had the last house , sell at a profit , and move on . |
| 12 | Four floors of a hotel development in central London were destroyed in a fire . |
| 13 | ( First Edition ) Nine men arrested during a police raid on the Broadwater Farm housing estate in north London were remanded on bail by Haringey magistrates on charges ranging from assault to threatening behaviour and obstruction . |
| 14 | The sherds found in London were illustrated by Roach Smith , one showing three horses and the other a charioteer ( fig. 14.9 ) , and the arm of a charioteer appears on a sherd from Verulamium . |
| 15 | The parents of one boy , Moses Bentum of Bexley , south London were rejected because , according to the council , they had made themselves homeless by defaulting on the mortgage payments . |
| 16 | EASTER holidaymakers heading out of London were delayed when the M1 was closed for more than two hours last night because of a suspect van on the hard shoulder two miles from where an IRA bomb exploded last week . |
| 17 | Nevertheless the hospital beds and places to be opened in London were seen as facilitating the further development of comprehensive community services . |
| 18 | To get them through the Christmas crisis , staff in London were instructed to send down a variety of commercial patterns and magazines which Laura adapted herself . |
| 19 | John Stanley 's extemporizations on the organ of Temple Church in London were attended by Handel , and yet the esteem in which he was held by his contemporaries has failed to gain him the reputation that he should enjoy today . |
| 20 | Two men from London were charged with affray , criminal damage and possession of offensive weapons last night after the incident at The Bull in Camps Road . |
| 21 | In other cases which have attracted recent headlines , trainee firemen in London were hosed with cold water and left in the street in baby doll nightdresses , a young policewoman in Manchester was handcuffed to railings through a freezing night , and army recruits in Colchester were forced to call out musical notes as a sergeant hit them on their naked buttocks with a baseball bat . |
| 22 | Ingram has found that in many parts of southern England the levels of these practices were much higher in the 1620s and 1630s than they had been in the middle years of Elizabeth 's reign ; and Jeremy Boulton has discovered that between 80 and 98 per cent of all the potential communicants of two large suburban parishes in London were receiving annual communion during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods-a very high proportion by any standards . |
| 23 | The shuttle flights from Edinburgh to London were booked up right through until eleven that evening . |
| 24 | In 1950 more than half the shares on the New York stockmarket and in London were owned by individuals . |
| 25 | And the 52mph winds which swept London were thought to be a record for the month . |
| 26 | In two weeks of December the number of male vagrants had risen to 371 , which included 252 ex-soldiers , and the master was of the opinion that the increase was due to the fact that many of the unemployed in London were returning to their own towns through the casual wards . |
| 27 | Three hundred years of catering for the City of London were celebrated by Ring & Brymer at the Museum of London last week . |
| 28 | His days in London were crowded with what were essentially business appointments — the regular book committee meeting at Faber and Faber on Wednesday itself took up the whole of the lunchtime and afternoon . |
| 29 | Insurance claims from the huge IRA bomb blast in the City of London were expected to be around £300m ( $172m ) . |
| 30 | Open field sites in the vicinity of London were taken over for the construction of studios in the belief that it was heaps of brick and iron rather than organizational flair that explained the success of Louis B. Mayer or Samuel Goldwyn . |