Example sentences of "this [noun sg] was in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An RAF Warrant Officer in the Medical Administration branch , this Veteran was in the war from the start , helping to set up a field hospital . |
| 2 | Most of this capacity was in the Khuzestan area , where prospecting began in the early years of this century , culminating in the discovery in 1908 of the first of a cluster of oil-bearing structures identified in a northwest-southeast trend on a flank of the Zagros mountain range . |
| 3 | One of the most important changes in pub design during this period was in the plan . |
| 4 | He decided that this clergyman was in the clouds and out of the reach of the common man . |
| 5 | It would seem that this distinction was in the mind of the United Kingdom delegation in formulating their Working Document No. 10 , and that the subsequent references to ‘ discovery ’ served only to confuse the issues . |
| 6 | Although outside the sun was shining and this room was in the front of the house , no glimmer of sunlight filtered through the venetian blinds and the half-drawn curtains , only a dusty grey luminosity which seemed to chill the room . |
| 7 | When the directors of the London and North Western Railway organised their company in the last century they decided to build an engineering works , for locomotives and rolling stock , near the centre of their network , and this point was in the countryside at Crewe . |
| 8 | This collection was in the care of the Royal College of Surgeons ; and other medical societies and medical schools built up museums where the student could study at leisure , augmenting what he had learned from lectures and dissections and at the bedside . |
| 9 | It is not known whether these were contemporary and whether the settlement of this area was in the form of hamlets before the village was created . |
| 10 | But when this project was in the development stage , it was known as ‘ Project Lazarus ’ because it ‘ rose from the dead ’ so many times . |
| 11 | Put rather more strongly , this evaluation was in the tradition of the critical sociology of education of Sharp and Green ( 1975 ) , M F D Young and his colleagues ( Young , 1971 ) , and others whose work has been characterised by the significance they attach to the distinction between rhetoric and reality . |
| 12 | This school was in the missionary order Sisters of St Mary of Namur . |
| 13 | The last flowering of this tradition was in the Tyne Conference of Shop Stewards , established in 1975 in relation to the Labour Party 's White Paper on Industrial Strategy and the consequent Industry Act ( see North Tyne side CDP , 1978b ) . |
| 14 | It was more than possible that this businessman was in the business of spying . |