Example sentences of "in [adj] [was/were] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the battle of Otford in 776 was fought in the aftermath of the death of Heahberht or as a consequence of some other matter in dispute between Ecgberht and the Mercians , after 765 there is no certain evidence that Ecgberht was for long , if at all , ‘ a mere dependant ’ of Offa . |
| 2 | More significantly , the fact that the edicts of Guntram in 585 and of Chlothar in 614 were issued in the aftermath of Church councils raises the possibility that other royal legislation was attached to such councils , but that it has not been preserved . |
| 3 | TO BETTER serve the growing North American market , Rolls Wood Group [ Repair and Overhauls ] Ltd opened an American sales and customer liaison office in 1991. was appointed as sales manager for the Americas . |
| 4 | The story concerns Crowland 's bailiff , Ashford of Helpstone , who in 1076 was summoned by Ingulph before the King 's Justices at Stamford for trying to extort land from the abbey . |
| 5 | Blackett later wrote that ‘ probably the anti-submarine campaign in 1943 was waged under closer scientific control than any other campaign in the history of the British Armed Forces . ’ |
| 6 | Serbia was occupied in 1439 and became a Turkish province , but Murad 's siege of Belgrade in 1440 was repulsed by the Hungarians . |
| 7 | Indeed , the redistribution of boundaries that took place in 1948 was reckoned in the subsequent elections to have cost the Labour Party between twenty and forty seats . |
| 8 | the consensus on which the National Health Service was founded in 1948 was based on a service financed out of taxation . |
| 9 | Klein argues that the remarkable political consensus that existed on these principles in 1948 was accompanied by an even more profound consensus about the benefits of medicine and what it could achieve . |
| 10 | Orders in force in 1948 were reprinted under subject titles in a series of blue-bound volumes , continued in annual volumes ( there are several to the year ) . |
| 11 | Two hours before sunrise on the ninth of March 1620 , twelve forty-foot-long pirogues slipped out of the mangroves where they had been concealed ; each craft was carrying around ten men , each man an axe with a blade of sharpened rock and a small gouge of oystershell in the cloth tied around his waist ; three in each had quivers full of arrows and a pouch of manchineel sap , also at their waists ; one man in each was armed with a gun . |
| 12 | At Lincoln in that year ten prebends were in the possession of royal clerks ; at Salisbury and London seven in each were held by royal clerks ; at Lichfield five , and at Hereford four . |
| 13 | In common with a number of other Lancashire textile towns , Rochdale attracted immigrants , especially from Pakistan and , according to the census , some 5 per cent of Rochdale 's population in 1971 were born in New Commonwealth countries , with about 3 per cent coming from Pakistan . |
| 14 | Of marriages that took place in 1951 , 10% had ended in divorce by 25 years , in contrast 10% of couples who married in 1971 were divorced by their 6th wedding anniversary and of those married in 1981 , 10% had divorced within 4.5 years . |
| 15 | Only the hide-covered penthouse was occupied , and the three men in that were jammed at the opposite end , craning to watch the brilliant theatre ; the exchange at the gates upon which their survival depended . |
| 16 | Small world then , life 's I mean erm , child seat , there was one child seat in that was strapped to the and erm there was erm the , the other car seats in the front of the not strapped in I had to hurry up and put them in the back , cos I was running a bit late I was running a bit late anyway . |
| 17 | We went off to go see Husbands And Wives , because one of the actresses in that was going to be in the film , someone I was n't that keen on . |
| 18 | The negligible export of cotton goods in 1770 was transformed into half of all British exports between 1800 and 1850 . |
| 19 | Another , Tosti , although absent from contemporary documentary sources , appears on a Swedish rune stone as having secured tribute for his followers , while Florence of Worcester , writing c.1100 , says that a force which appeared in 1009 was led by Thorkell , and was almost immediately joined by a second group under Hemming and Eglaf . |
| 20 | Four out of five of the 11. 6 million children aged under 16 in Britain in 1986 were living with both their natural parents ( OPCS , 1988 ) . |
| 21 | For 1984–8 , postcode sector populations by age group in 1986 were estimated by adjusting the 1981 figures by the proportionate regional changes in the 1986 age specific estimates of the registrar general 's data . |
| 22 | It was made part of The East Surrey Regiment in 1916 , and in 1935 was converted to an anti-aircraft role as part of The Royal Engineers . |
| 23 | A motoring tour of Scotland with James Marshall Osborn in 1935 was followed by annual excursions with Esmond de Beer to Raasay , where he prepared articles and papers in tranquil surroundings and pursued the intricacies of Highland genealogy . |
| 24 | He was educated at Penzance and Bromsgrove Grammar Schools , and in 1861 was articled to a firm of solicitors in Penzance . |
| 25 | The four meetings of the Council 's Executive in 1989/90 were held in Irvine , Aberdeen , New Lanark and Inverness . |
| 26 | Nor was it surprising that after the apparently mindless brutality of the Amin years , Obote 's eventual return to power in 1980 was characterized by the continuing dominance of the army as the real force in Ugandan politics , supporting a parliamentary facade of no real legitimacy . |
| 27 | When the pre-independence Lancaster House agreement on the Constitution expired in April 1990 , the former bicameral parliament set up at independence in 1980 was replaced by a new single-chamber parliament , the House of Assembly , with 150 members ( 120 elective , 10 traditional chiefs , eight provincial governors appointed by the President and 12 other presidential appointees ) . |
| 28 | In the same year , the Radiochemical Centre also became a separate company and in 1980 was privatised into Amersham International , a successful supplier of radioisotope products worldwide . |
| 29 | In opera , Eyre 's production of Berlioz 's Beatrice and Benedict for the Buxton Festival in 1980 was considered by some observers to be the best thing he ever did . |
| 30 | However , the immense job losses inflicted on the British Steel Corporation in 1980 were followed by shipbuilding redundancies in naval dockyards on the south coast as well as in northern yards . |