Sentence examples for were requisitioned in from inspiring English sources

Seafood was plentiful, too: an account book shows that thirteen varieties, from salmon to smelts, were requisitioned in a month at Kew.

Nevertheless, the exhibition halls at Olympia were requisitioned in August 1914 to serve as what the home secretary cheerfully called "concentration camps" for enemy aliens.

Four acres of land at the end of Brean Down were requisitioned in 1862, with construction beginning in 1864 and completed in 1871.

If more tests were requisitioned in 2000 2005 than in the years around 1980, similar rates of positive reports in the two periods would suggest less viral activity in 2000 2005 than around 1980.

Food had to be requisitioned in order to feed the cities and the Red Army.

Its lawyers argued that the land was requisitioned in World War Two to establish an RAF station.

Jeremy Corbyn's suggestion that empty properties in Kensington should be "requisitioned if necessary" to re-house the victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster figures into a complex history of housing in London.

His services were requisitioned for launching Once a Week in 1859; his most notable work in this periodical was a series of illustrations to Charles Reade's A Good Fight (afterward rechristened The Cloister and the Hearth) and to George Meredith's Evan Harrington.

In order to save their own funds and calm the rage of the riotous poor, all the baker's ovens in the city were requisitioned by the commune and a loaf of bread weighing 170 g (6 oz) was then sold at a meager four pennies.

Hotels and guesthouses were requisitioned with women and children's camps being in Port Erin and Port St Mary.

During the Occupation, horses were requisitioned, and men were called up for forced labor in Germany.