Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one . |
| 2 | Because the slave traders were brought up in the belief that every word of the Holy Bible was inspired by God , they honestly thought that they had divine sanction to enslave blacks . |
| 3 | The cars were written off in the accident , but both drivers amazingly walked away with just minor cuts and bruises . |
| 4 | Steaua 's Ionel Fulga and Antwerp 's Rudy Taeymans were sent off in the second half , Fulga for dangerous play and Taeymans for a second bookable offence . |
| 5 | The second half exploded when Middlesbrough full back Jimmy Phillips and Southend goalkeeper Paul Sansome were sent off in the space of seven minutes . |
| 6 | It is only fair to put on record , so that the student of war today can trace Trenchard 's early thinking , by recalling that the Harris war aircraft were laid down in the mid-thirties . |
| 7 | Take one simple example : in 1975 journalists Sydney Schanberg , Jon Swain and photographer Al Rockoff were holed up in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh trying to come up with a way of preventing Dith Pran being taken by the Khmer Rouge and to get out of there alive . |
| 8 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 9 | Stewart slipped on the wicketkeeping gloves when Russell took a day 's sick leave with a stomach upset , and the final three sessions were played out in the usual no-prospects eeriness , which was heightened by the horrors of the evening before . |
| 10 | The foundations of modern archaeology were laid down in the 17th century , and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries emphasis was put on the recording of archaeological monuments , initially as part of general topographical works , but eventually as part of a study of the monuments themselves . |
| 11 | Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary . |
| 12 | Most spreadsheets were designed back in the days when 640KBytes was the maximum amount of memory that was available . |
| 13 | The Charles Bal and Sir Robert Sale were beating about in the darkness for the whole of the twenty-seventh , and ash rained down on them so steadily that the crews had to spend hours shovelling it off the decks and shaking it clear of sails and rigging . |
| 14 | Lists of the so-called Anti-Reformers or Boroughmongers were set out in the radical press , and as the electors were so few and were persons of standing , their views were really known in advance and the outcome could be predicted accurately — contrary to the modern opinion polls which so often are at variance with the result . |
| 15 | The Youngs were standing up in the dining room , ready to go to bed . |
| 16 | The calculations that describe how the chemical elements were cooked up in the turmoil of creation say that there were three types of neutrino around to help things on their way . |
| 17 | The best IBMers were sent out in the seventies on secondments , then seen to come back into promotions . |
| 18 | Other real ale breweries were set up in the county during the 1980s , but failed . |
| 19 | The gardens were laid out in the eighteenth century by a French landscape gardener for the then owner and founder , the first Conde de Carvalhal . |
| 20 | The formal gardens were laid out in the 18th century . |
| 21 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
| 22 | Her hyperactivity and restlessness were taken up in the constant roaming , first about the churches in her own neighbourhood , then to religious sites in England , then on pilgrimage in Europe , all of them respectable things to do . |
| 23 | Mr Christie claimed that though the Dutch and Belgian governments contributed to save sections of Leyland-DAF in their own countries , the British plants were left out in the cold after our government refused to participate in the rescue . |
| 24 | The grey trousers were put on in the month of March last and the white waistcoats in May . ’ |
| 25 | An early regard for the quality of life was shown when the walls of the medieval town were pulled down in the early nineteenth century . |
| 26 | The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century . |
| 27 | The ‘ general interest ’ illustrated weekly magazines like Picture Post were killed off in the late 1950s by TV , even before the free colour magazines and expanded feature coverage of the Sunday papers , led by The Sunday Times , were introduced in the early 1960s . |
| 28 | Unable to get a drink , the workers were standing around in the street listening to pacifist orators . |
| 29 | Unless the working classes were caught up in the new sectarian movements of Protestantism ( which were themselves a reaction and response to modernity ) , they were liable to slip into unbelief . |
| 30 | Hundreds of thousands of people travelling home or heading out for the evening were caught up in the ensuing chaos . |