Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various children , with whom both of them were very good , were about the house in profusion . |
| 2 | Overhereoverthere , well ridden by Robbie Supple , has been with Upson for six years , but his only previous successes were between the flags in Ireland . |
| 3 | Although we in the UK were behind the Americans in introducing the mandatory carriage of FDRs in public transport aircraft fitted with turbine engines , we had the advantage of learning from their experience since some foreign registered aircraft of American manufacture which were fitted with FDRs crashed in the UK . |
| 4 | These situations were unlike the others in the study in that they were filmed in rural areas while the films showing junctions were generally in urban areas . |
| 5 | Turned wooden vessels were amongst the grave-goods in the ship burial of Sutton Hoo mound 1 . |
| 6 | To reject the mythological character of much of the Bible is to run the serious risk of looking for the truth of scripture as if it were like the kernel in the nut , and ending up with nothing but the shell . |
| 7 | As it happened , the links he had remade were with the Magharba in Ajdabiya . |
| 8 | In the ILEA ( which published much more detailed statistics on special education than central government or other LEAs ) , boys were in the majority in schools and units catering for every type of special need . |
| 9 | Certainly those who were in the square in 1387 hoping to see the completion of the Duomo would have had to wait a long time , far longer than the span of a human life . |
| 10 | But er it , it , it er it appears to have been overlooked that , erm some of the directors who were in the bracket in nineteen eighty eight of two hundred and thirty thousand to two ninety five thousand have been increased from three hundred and fifty five thousand this year to a top of four hundred thousand . |
| 11 | A brief list of these phrases which were in the documents in 1121 will show their relevance : |
| 12 | The huge arrangements of garden and wild flowers decorating the rooms were in the positions in which Anna and Charlotte would have placed them . |
| 13 | And I I do n't criticize them for that , because the the fields that were in the databases in the past did n't d er w were sort of total cost of the |
| 14 | The peace campaigners were on trial for cutting a fence and painting a B52 bomber at RAF Fairford.Protesters supporting them were outside the court in Cirencester . |
| 15 | It would be odd if a transaction were outside the section in all circumstances solely because it was governed by a foreign law even though , for instance , all the parties were in this country at all times . |
| 16 | That gag was consciously played for laughs , of course , but the really funny thing is that the pioneering Australian brands which were on the shelves in the ‘ 70s were actually called the much more comical names of Kanga Rouge and Wallaby wine . |
| 17 | Olympia provoked such a reaction because it ‘ altered and played with identities the culture wanted to keep still ’ and ‘ because such identities were on the surface in such a brutal and unmediated fashion ’ . |
| 18 | A report presented to the US Congress 's General Accounting Office in late July indicated that drug trafficking and money laundering were on the increase in the country since the removal of the regime of Gen. Manuel Noriega Moreno in December 1989 [ see pp. 37112-13 ] . |
| 19 | The RAF ground crews , the unsung heroes of this time , continued to work round the clock , the air crews seemed never to be out of their aeroplanes , and the rest of us waltzed through our duties with the exhilarating feeling that at last things were on the move in the right direction . |
| 20 | They were on the mantelpiece in the garden even in the bathroom . |
| 21 | We were on the loose in France for a couple of months . |
| 22 | People say they become imperceptive ; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time ; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ( ‘ But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday . |
| 23 | ‘ It was good when they were on the bridge in the rain , and bicycles kept criss-crossing behind them . ’ |
| 24 | A team from 621 Company at Ashford were on the ground in the area of the clubhouse . |
| 25 | The following were among the names in the new year honours list : |
| 26 | HOLIDAYS in Thailand , Greece and London were among the prizes in the Danish Powder Coatings Championship , co-hosted by Courtaulds company International Farvefabrik . |
| 27 | This dream I 'm reading now — I dreamt it when we were at the cottage in Cornwall . |
| 28 | Paramedics were at the scene in four minutes of the emergency call and took over from officers who had been trying to stem the flow of blood . |
| 29 | As to the Scottish electorate , I reassure the hon. Gentleman that they were at the forefront in seeking the abolition of domestic rates and they will be at the forefront in resisting their reintroduction by the Opposition . |
| 30 | Manager Dick Graham brought Jackie Bannister to Selhurst Park on a free transfer from Scunthorpe United in July 1965 , having assessed this combative wing-half or full-back at close quarters when the pair were at The Hawthorns in the early 1960s , and Jackie certainly became a valued member of Palace 's 2nd Division defences under Mr Graham in the second half of that decade , missing only one game in two seasons between August 1966 and May 1968 . |