Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cartridge boxes were stacked in two layers . |
| 2 | Components were stacked in piles all over the factory floor like the contents of an attic . |
| 3 | Straining his eyes , he could just make out the two boxes which were stacked in the far corner of the room and a picture frame which was propped up against them . |
| 4 | After a brief glance at the two boxes of apples which were stacked in the corner , he sat on the end of the bed with Willie and talked about the poem he was writing . |
| 5 | Benches and chairs had been placed around the walls , and biscuit mattresses , still folded , were stacked in the corner nearest the stone steps . |
| 6 | His jackets were hung on the backs of chairs , his triumphantly acquired groceries were stacked in the sitting-room , his cigar butts filled the ashtrays and his glasses had made rings on the surface of the poolside table . |
| 7 | Clipboard held tightly under her arm , she strode purposefully over to the area where the thousands of drums were stacked in a sprawled , looming maze . |
| 8 | Torches were stacked in a niche at the head of the tunnel . |
| 9 | They hung on walls , they leaned against each other in piles by the walls , they were stacked in corners . |
| 10 | Persian books were stacked in disordered piles ; in the corner glistened a big brass samovar incised with Islamic decoration . |
| 11 | The long established working class were rehoused on a massive scale , but many were stacked in tower blocks : the numbers of Council flats in England and Wales built fifteen or more storeys from the ground rose from 8 in 1955 to 17,351 in 1965 . |
| 12 | Twelve years ago , he said , President Ronald Reagan had stood at the same podium and said if the national debt were stacked in $1,000 bills , ‘ the stack would reach 67 miles into space . |
| 13 | Many of the figures were excavated in the early nineteenth century and acquired by Ludwig I of Bavaria , for whom some were heavily restored and arbitrarily grouped by the neoclassical Danish sculptor Thorwaldsen . |
| 14 | The two other local mosaics , the Keynsham Villa mosaics , which were excavated in 1924 and last exhibited about three years ago , will also be on display . |
| 15 | Everywhere French flags were ripped in half and trampled on and great gangs of young soldiers joined together to shout and curse the very name of France . |
| 16 | Three of the original crew members of Mary Alice were traced in the mid 1980s and were willing to share their memories and experiences . |
| 17 | One half was stained with β -gal to verify phenotype , and in the other half efferent cranial nerves emerging from the hindbrain were traced in paraformaldehyde fixed embryos 10–10.5d.p.c. by injecting small volumes DiIC 18 ( 1,1'-dioctadecyl-3,3,3',3' — tetramethylindocarbocyanine perchlorate , molecular probes , 5mgml -1 in dimethylformamide ) at their exit points . |
| 18 | The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat . |
| 19 | There are three other main bodies of English law : probate , Divorce , and Admiralty , which were developed in jurisdictions distinct from the Common Law Courts and the Court of Chancery . |
| 20 | Originally , these were developed in connection with university extension courses in the late-nineteenth century and established the tradition of summer meetings for study at Oxford , Cambridge and at other universities . |
| 21 | At the infrastructural level , the highways and transport system of Israel , Gaza and the West Bank were developed in such a way that it became increasingly easy to drive from Israel direct to one of the West Bank Jewish settlements without passing through Arab population centres . |
| 22 | Most of Illich 's ideas were developed in the Third World as a political response to the economic impossibility of universal ‘ Western education ’ . |
| 23 | CFCs were developed in the 1930s and were hailed as a triumph of science — they were cheap , non-flammable , non-toxic and reacted with very few other substances . |
| 24 | The previous chapter argued that the ideological terms of antislavery were developed in part through contesting a pro-West Indian intellectual barrage , often presented in the rhetoric of national and imperial interest . |
| 25 | Milton 's ideas , for instance , were developed in an age when the state exercised enormous controls over intellectual and cultural life . |
| 26 | It is important to remember , for example , that our main concepts of the functional organization of primary visual cortex were developed in studies on cats rather than monkeys . |
| 27 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 28 | These were developed in England where he had come in search of further anthropological inspiration after reading Frazer 's Golden Bough . |
| 29 | The new line includes the first air-cooled machines in the C90 series , a two-processor C92A and a four-processor C94A , which it says were developed in response to demand from Japanese commercial users . |
| 30 | ProActive 's products were developed in collaboration with Mohr general partner , William Davidow . |