Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] in [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Components were stacked in piles all over the factory floor like the contents of an attic . |
| 2 | A WEST Belfast husband and wife were remanded in court today on a terror charge . |
| 3 | A MAN and a woman were remanded in custody yesterday in connection with a shotgun incident in Braintree . |
| 4 | Pat McCourt of Craigavon and her three sisters were born in Portsmouth , but were placed in care soon after the death of their mother . |
| 5 | THREE people were treated in hospital today after passengers and crew had to swiftly leave an aircraft by emergency chutes when smoke appeared in the cockpit . |
| 6 | Antibody incubations were done in TTBS overnight at 4°C and control strips were similarly incubated in TTBS containing an equivalent amount of protein from normal rabbit serum . |
| 7 | German defences were sited in depth all along the ridge , giving them an uninterrupted view of British movements . |
| 8 | Later , plain biscuits were used in Edenderry instead of bread . |
| 9 | Jane and Laura went on numerous shopping trips for antiques to Paris and , slowly , all the rooms in the château were redecorated in fabrics more in keeping with the building 's style and history . |
| 10 | Inquests were opened in Britain yesterday into the deaths of the two friends , after their remains were flown home . |
| 11 | Eight men were arrested in Ireland later on Oct. 24 for questioning in connection with the attacks . |
| 12 | Considerable physical migration took place — mostly , but not entirely , caused by the activities of the Russians — and some peoples were reduced in numbers almost to vanishing point , while on the other hand at least one new ethno-cultural group was formed . |
| 13 | The human rights organization Amnesty International estimated that as many as 10,000 demonstrators were detained in Beijing alone after the June crackdown . |
| 14 | While the areas of sky and water dried with two wings of the picture , the banks with trees and spire were put in dark enough for the water to clean light against them . |
| 15 | A further eight skiers were killed in accidents close to the prepared piste , and 18 were killed climbing or skiing in open country . |
| 16 | TWENTY people were shot and hacked to death in a Johannesburg township in the worst incident of violence in South Africa since August 1990 , and 10 others were killed in settlements elsewhere in the city , writes Fred Bridgland in Johannesburg . |
| 17 | Two Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli army patrols on the West Bank and a man and woman were killed in Gaza allegedly for collaboration with the Israeli authorities . |
| 18 | On the same day 15 other people were killed in violence elsewhere in the state . |
| 19 | During this time , 30 reinfarctions ( 10.4% ) were recorded in patients previously on heparin and 27 ( 9.6% ) in controls . |
| 20 | Police say a paediatrician at the hospital gave the boys medication to make them vomit , and they were kept in hospital overnight for observation . |
| 21 | She was joined in court today BY her husband George , seen here in the white jacket . |
| 22 | A MOTORIST accused of killing two young girls was remanded in custody yesterday for his own safety . |
| 23 | A WOMAN law clerk was remanded in custody yesterday at Manchester magistrates ' court , accused of helping two prisoners escape from the court where they were on trial over the Strangeways jail riot . |
| 24 | The concern was highlighted in Glasgow yesterday by Gary Kenny , a safety specialist with Cremer & Warner , who was a member of the Piper Alpha inquiry team . |
| 25 | This signal AC/190 was not sent on to AFHQ until much later in the day on 14 May , and a copy marked " Personal for General Morgan " , the Chief of Staff , was received in Caserta just after midnight , at 0005 hrs . |
| 26 | The farm has won an ADAS marketing award and was featured in FARMERS WEEKLY in March . |
| 27 | had staged the epochal exhibition ‘ Manet and the Post-Impressionists ’ at the Grafton Gallery , when the work of Paul Cézanne , Gauguin , and Vincent Van Gogh was seen in England virtually for the first time . |
| 28 | SIMON MAKALLA , chief game warden of the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya , was named in court yesterday as the man most likely to have murdered Julie Ward . |
| 29 | A further , far reaching initiative within this approach was made in Kenya immediately after the Mau Mau Emergency of 1954–7 . |
| 30 | The first cathedral of this name in Novgorod was built in wood soon after Vladimir 's conversion to Christianity in 988 . |