Example sentences of "were [prep] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to look at where the opportunities were for development in Greater York as a whole rather than looking at individual district elements , and in terms of land available , erm Mr Steel appears to have included some sites which we classify as land held in reserve , which we do n't normally count towards the land availability targets , although we do acknowledge that it is there . |
| 2 | The original contracts were for payment in dollars . |
| 3 | If it were for students in Writing , Publishing and Communications then more emphasis is likely to be given to editorial aids and to the structure of the publishing industry . |
| 4 | According to the manufacturers of the forgings ( Societa della Fucine , a subsidiary of the Ilva state steel company ) they were for use in Iraq 's petrochemical industry . |
| 5 | The Italian city states , and others , were for centuries in conflict in the Mediterranean over sources of , and outlets for , trade . |
| 6 | The police could also take prisoners , and more than 25,000 people were behind bars in Los Angeles , nearly all of them black or Latino . |
| 7 | They were like generals in command of armies , receiving , sorting , dispatching thousands of vehicles in an irregular flow , fighting their great enemy , blockade . |
| 8 | And where we were with investors in people . |
| 9 | Papal legates were with Ealdred in England in 1062 to see this implemented , and on 8 September he consecrated Wulfstan [ q.v. ] bishop of Worcester . |
| 10 | The authorities confirmed on June 21 that investigations were under way in connection with an alleged coup plot planned by the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement ( AWB ) involving the assassination of , among others , de Klerk and five Cabinet ministers ; acts of sabotage , including the destruction of power stations and poisoning of Soweto 's drinking water , were to be carried out to create chaos and anarchy prior to the coup . |
| 11 | Preparations for another expedition to Brittany were under discussion in May 1374 , and in August Duke John , together with Edmund Langley Earl of Cambridge , the Earl of March and Edward Despenser agreed to take 4,000 men to the duchy for a year . |
| 12 | Some 2,000 market women , members of the society , filled the public galleries of the Legislative Assembly when the new tariffs were under discussion in June 1975 . |
| 13 | Three general strikes paralysed the public and private sectors on Sept. 3 , Sept. 9-10 and Sept. 16 in protest at social security reforms which were under debate in parliament . |
| 14 | The authorities later specified that certain French residents in Chad were under suspicion in connection with the Feb. 21 incident , and on March 31 the French government repatriated " for security reasons " four French citizens working on official co-operation projects . |
| 15 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 16 | The council leader , Louise Ellman , said it was feared that for every job lost directly , at least another two were in jeopardy in feeder factories or large businesses . |
| 17 | Well , my mother I left school and me mother said , the Labour Exchanges had come into being , er this was nineteen nineteen , they were in existence in Nottingham . |
| 18 | The police were not in attendance , although 762 officers were in reserve in case of trouble . |
| 19 | The United Kingdom Championships were in Antrim in Northern Ireland that year . |
| 20 | There could have been a similar reaction to the prospect of a Wilson administration and especially with the kind of rough-neck covert operations that were in progress in Ulster . |
| 21 | Two other leaders who were sentenced to life imprisonment were in detention in Tunis : Sadok Chourou and Habib Ellouz . |
| 22 | We were in Verbier in March 1990 with our two sons aged 9 and 11 , both good skiers , and a daughter of 4 who was skiing for the first time . |
| 23 | He died in 1729 , by which time his engines were in use in Hungary , France , Belgium , Germany and Spain . |
| 24 | Although both the BCP and the UDF were in agreement in principle over the election of a head of state , the UDF wanted the President to be elected by the future Grand National Assembly , whereas the BCP wanted the President to be elected directly , at the same time as the forthcoming parliamentary elections . |
| 25 | I am not sure if they were in fact in use at the end . |
| 26 | In the second part , they investigated how many people were in poverty in terms of this ‘ consensual view ’ . |
| 27 | Will he take time to explain to the House why , in the past year , 177,000 fewer people were in training in Britain — a reduction of 5.4 per cent ? |
| 28 | As reported in the newspaper El Diario of March 21 , 1989 , Samaniego had announced that former President Stroessner and his son , Col. Gustavo Stroessner , both of whom were in exile in Brazil , would be dismissed from the military and that those generals who had supported the previous regime " until the last minute " would be retired , dismissed or tried by military courts . |
| 29 | To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many men and women , full and part-time , were in employment in Wales and Mid-Glamorgan in ( a ) June 1979 , ( b ) June 1987 and ( c ) the latest date for which figures are available . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many unemployment benefit claimants there were in York in June 1987 and currently ; and if he will make a statement . |