Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Red Brigade were holding Moro in Portuense , were n't they ? ’ she commented suddenly . |
| 2 | The general secretary of the EPRLF , K. Padmanabha , was also reported to have left Sri Lanka , along with other key officials , and to have gone to India , where thousands of EPRLF supporters were seeking refuge in fear of persecution by the LTTE as it moved into areas vacated by Indian troops . |
| 3 | Participating countries were allocated SDRs in proportion to their quotas , these allocations being known as their ‘ net cumulative allocations ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to know what Salome and Alec Reynolds were doing down in Kent on Saturday . ’ |
| 5 | Geologist Bill Ward , of Griffith University in Brisbane , and colleagues from CSIRO were collecting samples in order to date the formation of the island 's sand ridges . |
| 6 | Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March |
| 7 | Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March |
| 8 | Round about the time of the miners ' ballot , hospital workers were holding meetings in South Yorkshire hospitals where only months earlier they had voted for all-out strike action . |
| 9 | Although anti-nuclear protests were gathering strength in Britain at this time , the Labour front-bench in Parliament was strengthened by the switch of the charismatic Aneurin Bevan from unilateral nuclear disarmament to the view that the British bomb would enhance national influence in any disarmament talks . |
| 10 | Other things were going bump in Presley City 's final night . |
| 11 | The head of the first UN human rights team to visit Iraq since the Gulf war , Max van der Stoel , said on Jan. 20 that " massive violations " of human rights were taking place in Iraq . |
| 12 | Some 5,000 people a day were entering Afghanistan in mid-December , braving an icy river crossing . |
| 13 | Funds for Operation Shakespeare had been paid into Barclays Bank , Gibraltar , he said — Account No. 35078565 — and when the mission was over , the Colemans were to establish residence in Spain . |
| 14 | Thus the church made its past its own : the martyrs were made present in time ; but they also had to become present in space . |
| 15 | In 1983 , a total of 3,774 people were seeking work in Shrewsbury . |
| 16 | David Scott , for example , complained that he got so many requests for Indian patronage from the council of St. Andrews that if the remaining burghs in his district were to seek aid in proportion to the size of their communities it ‘ would require more patronage than the whole East India Direction have in their gift ’ . |
| 17 | While these events were happening in the workhouse , the Artful Dodger and Charley Bates were playing cards in Fagin 's house . |
| 18 | While trials of Securitate leaders were taking place in Timisoara , opposition activists alleged that a high proportion of secret policemen were simply absorbed into the government agencies , armed forces and revamped services . |
| 19 | The allegation that the Liberals were selling honours in return for political contributions was brutally clear . |
| 20 | Similar developments were taking place in pharmaceuticals , aerospace , construction and automobiles , where it was becoming increasingly difficult for firms to maintain capability in all the technology options for the future . |
| 21 | The Chinese people watched eagerly for signs of what developments were to take place in China 's political life . |
| 22 | In March food supplies purchased by the Commissariat of War for the Red Army were given priority in evacuation at the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk over ARA famine stocks . |
| 23 | Tigers were declared vermin in China in the 1950s , and were slaughtered in droves not just because they were dangerous but also because they were valuable . |
| 24 | If reform of this kind were to take place in England the new Crown Prosecution Service should provide a further safeguard against abuse . |
| 25 | Already , however , reports of the atrocities in the Highlands were causing revulsion in London and when that month Cumberland was made a freeman of a City livery company it was suggested that the most appropriate would be the butchers ' , giving Cumberland his enduring nickname . |
| 26 | A generation or so ago , New Critics and Scrutineers did assume that scrupulosity and rigour were selfjustifying ends in criticism . |
| 27 | 81 Hampdens , Whitleys and Wellingtons from 3 , 4 and 5 Groups were given targets in Berlin . |
| 28 | It was also suggested that this faction was backed by elements in Vietnam who feared a type of democratic " domino effect " if open elections were to take place in Cambodia . |
| 29 | Delegations from Armenia and Azerbaidjan were to take part in talks " on a permanent basis " , beginning on Oct. 1 , which would be brokered by the RSFSR and Kazakhstan . |
| 30 | By Dec. 14 at least 26 people had been killed in army operations and 44 men were facing charges in connection with the Guemar attack at a military court in Ouargla . |