Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words were lost in the violent pounding from the east . |
| 2 | His words were lost in the frightened screams of the women , the crying of terrified children , the loud cursing and swearing — and sometimes praying — of the men . |
| 3 | His words were lost in the sudden explosion which took the front off Police Headquarters . |
| 4 | The words were whispered in a soft western English accent , a gentle hint of Ireland making an enchanting spell for the eager listener . |
| 5 | If on my time you prepare that waste wood into bundles such as any man could store at home , and if in your own time you will carry those bundles around the town and distribute them free , to rich and poor alike — but not to any man who was landlord to any among us — we may together teach them — ’ The rest of his words were drowned in a universal roar of delight . |
| 6 | The theoretical aspects were formulated in the mid-1940s and the first dates were published in December 1949 . |
| 7 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 8 | Many related compounds were made in the same laboratories and were investigated in more or less detail according to the promise they showed . |
| 9 | In 1984 over seven million compounds were documented in the chemical literature . |
| 10 | Salako will be seen by surgeon Dominic Cisto , who did a £50,000 rebuild on the knee last season after two ligaments were severed in a horrifying tackle . |
| 11 | His legs were wrapped in a tartan rug and he was fortressed by small tables , stools , a frame to help lever himself upright . |
| 12 | It is very important that we recognize the possibility of accepting the best features of comprehensive schools while getting rid of the worst , remembering with reasonable humility that the schools were introduced in the first place as experimental , and that all the trial and error may not yet be over . |
| 13 | The first true prep schools were started in the nineteenth century , in the confused wake of the great public schools . |
| 14 | Not that The Dick Nixons were indulging in a new pastime . |
| 15 | Safeguards for the Spanish steel industry were incorporated in an additional protocol , the talks having been held up over Spain 's concern that cheap steel exports from the three countries would disrupt its domestic industry . |
| 16 | PAKISTAN were locked in a fresh ball-doctoring row yesterday after their three-run Texaco Trophy win at Lord 's . |
| 17 | At Guelph as late as 1911 a Romanesque effect was combined with an Italianate tower , while at Goderich extensive offices were incorporated in a large round tower . |
| 18 | The trains appeared to penetrate the buildings themselves , for shed and offices were conceived in a single mass , and the tracks could be closed off by gates . |
| 19 | He deplored the loss of work the machine looms were causing in the small lake towns and consequently ‘ the production of individual misery . ’ |
| 20 | Those units were joined in the latter part of the 1980s in a rationalisation plan . |
| 21 | Many fortresses and castles were built in the Middle Ages in Poland . |
| 22 | In control subjects , 555–740 MBq ( 15–20 mCi ) of 9 9 m Tc labelled human albumin , methylene diphosphonate , or glucoheptonate were administered in a similar manner . |
| 23 | As in eighteenth-century armies , moreover , the defects of naval recruiting-systems were reflected in a crippling rate of desertion . |
| 24 | The predicted group membership corresponded to the actual group in 100% of cases in the basal condition , 80% in the 100 mg/day gliadin microchallenge group ( 10% were misclassified in the other groups ) , 80% in the 500 mg/day gliadin microchallenge ( 20% were misclassified in the 100 mg/day group ) . |
| 25 | The Fulro leadership was based in the Cambodian province of Mondolkiri and , until early 1992 , had enjoyed close links with the Khmers Rouges ; some 1,500 Fulro fighters were based in the Central Highlands . |
| 26 | She stood for a moment looking at them , and saw how their heads were tilted in the listening attitudes of forest creatures , how their ears were pricked , and how their eyes were bright and intelligent . |
| 27 | While legal accountability is primarily directed towards providing protection for the individual against administrative discretion , political and managerial accountability are concerned more with the provision of an account of why funds were disbursed in a particular manner and what results or benefits thereby resulted . |
| 28 | Most of these covers were made in the late eighteenth century or the early nineteenth , and often give away their date in their names . |
| 29 | Life continued , and the rubbed and burst blisters were incorporated in the universal art of melting the ice-blocks in which the Governmental Bleeders preserved everything that had been preserved . |
| 30 | However , plasma triglycerides were elevated in the diabetic animals soon after the induction of the disease and the authors speculated that this may have contributed to the development of the platelet and vessel-wall changes . |