Example sentences of "[was/were] in [noun] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were in London for rehearsals at the Globe , and the actors put on the new play for the first time on the 29th of June , 1613 . |
| 2 | ‘ My whinge is being charged 10 for being overdrawn with National Giro for the first time ever and by only 3.11 — and even though they were in possession of cheques for 36.53 which they knew would be honoured . ’ |
| 3 | Cohen , March and Olsen ( 1972 ) provided a stark contrast to the planning-oriented literature on organization design and decision making with their ‘ garbage-can model ’ , which in essence claims that people and systems in organizations were in possession of solutions to problems and predispositions to take certain actions when problems or specific situations arise . |
| 4 | During the war of 1914–18 the English working class were in contact with foreigners to an extent that is rarely possible . |
| 5 | Within minutes of being trapped behind a 20-feet thick wall of coal , steel and rubble completely filling the 12-feet high and 16-feet wide tunnel , they were in contact with colleagues on the opposite side using the undamaged Tannoy system which runs along the wall of the roadway . |
| 6 | By contrast with Godwin and his circle , who grew out of a broad and rising general formation , at first not in critical relations with its own class , the Pre-Raphaelites , who were in majority from families of the commercial bourgeoisie , were in conscious opposition to the main cultural tendencies of their class , though they may finally be seen as articulating and expressing them . |
| 7 | Seven people were reported killed in a series of pre-dawn air raids on two Croat villages , which Yugoslav army commanders said were in retaliation for attacks on an air base in the regional centre of Mostar nearby . |
| 8 | Third , it gave as justification for some of its outrages that they were in retaliation for attacks on the army . |
| 9 | The recent increases were in line with movements in the Rotterdam spot market . |
| 10 | Losses in mortgage indemnity business were in line with expectations at $10m . |
| 11 | Losses in mortgage indemnity business , where General Accident has only a 4% share , were in line with expectations at $4.4m . |
| 12 | In the second part , they investigated how many people were in poverty in terms of this ‘ consensual view ’ . |
| 13 | Thus , it can be calculated from the figures that in 1951–52 over 72% of all WEA ‘ centres ’ in the Eastern District were in places with populations of less than 5,000 ; only 10% were in places with over 20,000 people . |
| 14 | At the very end of his life there was also a suggestion that he was in receipt of bribes for the release of prisoners at Newgate , though this allegation seems not to have been proved . |
| 15 | At the request of the army the Collective State Presidency again held an extraordinary session on May 7 which was attended by Marcovic and the Kadijevic but not by Tudjman , who was in London for talks with United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd . |
| 16 | May : May 8-11 ; in a tour in support of Middle East peace talks , Bessmertnykh visited Damascus , Tel Aviv ( the first trip to Israel by a Soviet Foreign Minister since the state was founded in 1948 ) , Amman and Cairo ; May 15-19 : the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , Jiang Zemin , visited Moscow for talks on Sino-Soviet relations ; May 15 : Lev Voronin , a former deputy Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers , was appointed ambassador to the EC ; May 27 : the last Soviet troops on active duty in Czechoslovakia were withdrawn ; May 28-31 : Primakov was in Washington for talks with US leaders and World Bank and IMF officials to discuss Western aid . |
| 17 | Khan was in Washington for talks with United States officials during which he repeated undertakings not to explode a nuclear weapon or transfer nuclear technology to other countries . |
| 18 | Det Sgt Hardy Jones of Darlington CID confirmed he was in contact with officers from other forces to discuss the raids . |
| 19 | To those who wished to have this discretion , his message was always the same : It is quite clear from several sources that general opinion among the bishops was in favour of relaxations for ‘ reasonable ’ causes , but Anselm resisted every appeal for moderation : for him no relaxation could be ‘ reasonable ’ . |
| 20 | Such a confident assertion of local feeling against nuclear power was in tune with shifts in the national political scene . |
| 21 | Namaliu claimed that the landing was in response to requests from local chiefs and village leaders , who feared for their safety following a spate of executions carried out by the BRA . |
| 22 | This was in response to requests from . |
| 23 | It was also agreed that conventional armed forces would come under a single armed forces command , though leaving an option for CIS member states to control their own armed forces — this was in response to demands from Moldova , Ukraine and Azerbaijan . |
| 24 | The aid was in addition to grants of US$553,400,000 announced earlier in the month . |
| 25 | The strike was in support of demands for better pay and conditions following unsuccessful negotiations with TCL . |
| 26 | Despite a 1991 that saw her largely relieved of the pressure of the tabloid press charting a private life that was in turmoil over allegations against her father Peter ( since disproved ) , the last twelve months have brought her only limited satisfaction . |
| 27 | On July 22 Baker met with President Mubarak of Egypt in Cairo and on July 23 he was in Syria for talks with President Hafez al-Assad , and in the Bekaa valley , Lebanon , for talks with Lebanese President Elias Hrawi . |
| 28 | The Acting Chairman of the Russian Central Bank , Viktor Gerashchenko , was in dispute with supporters of acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar , chief architect of the drive to a market economy , over measures to deal with the massive outstanding debts of state enterprises . |
| 29 | A spokeswoman for Database said the company was in negotiations with EDS until IBM Italia , which holds 22.5% of the company , found out and put a stop to them . |
| 30 | His initial duties were to assist with fieldwork for the magnetic survey of India and by the 1908–9 field season he was in charge of operations in south-west India . |