Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The first true prep schools were started in the nineteenth century , in the confused wake of the great public schools . |
| 4 | The fate of the earlier Halling registers is not known but some of the early entries were copied in the 19th century by Sir Thorn as Colyer Ferguson . |
| 5 | The first multiparty general election since independence in 1975 took place on Nov. 22 , with a second round on Nov. 29 in 34 constituencies where no candidates were elected in the first round . |
| 6 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
| 7 | Puddephat and Melanie Gandell were mentioned in the first paragraph , but did not appear in the rest of the piece . |
| 8 | I think all goals were scored in the second half . |
| 9 | The bureau said that despite flooding the summer grain harvest was down by only 1.8 per cent , although " severe " economic losses were expected in the second half . |
| 10 | In the normal subjects the fasted mean serum APGPR concentration was at the detection limit of the assay but postprandially two peaks of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours after the start of the meal ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 11 | In the normal subjects ( Fig 2A ) , the APGPR concentrations in urine increased after the test meal and again two peak mean values of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours at 45 and 75 minutes after the start of the meal corresponding in time with the peaks of serum APGPR found in the normal subjects . |
| 12 | The Scottish Conservatives in general had also attracted criticism for their refusal to discuss devolution , giving rise to fears that a constitutional crisis might overtake the country if the Conservatives were defeated in the next general election . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Dundela and Donegal Celtic were paired in the second round of the Steel and Sons Cup when the draw was made on Monday evening . |
| 14 | On Feb. 12 some 36 such refugees were returned in the first mandatory repatriation of 1992 . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , it is because of their influence that Roman Catholic adherents were found in the seventeenth century as far east as Bulgaria . |
| 16 | Some earlier drawings show the panel as considerably less complete than it is now , suggesting that pieces were added in the eighteenth century , as was the common practice with fragmentary works . |
| 17 | Edberg is the sixth seed to go out of the men 's championship after a record five seeds were beaten in the first round . |
| 18 | Shot towers were devised in the eighteenth century for the casting of lead shot . |
| 19 | Five Doric capitals and bases were recorded in the nineteenth century , while several re-used blocks were found in 1957 in the foundations of the northwest tower ; these blocks displayed cramp holes unrelated to the adjacent stones , and one at least was an elaborately moulded part of a plinth . |
| 20 | The author of several pamphlets , and an FRS , Bennet kept a political diary from 1806 , now lost , though extracts were published in the nineteenth century and one volume ( for 1821 ) has come to light . |
| 21 | Most of Illich 's ideas were developed in the Third World as a political response to the economic impossibility of universal ‘ Western education ’ . |
| 22 | The score was unchanged and the Yankees were batting in the ninth , and last , inning . |
| 23 | No costs were awarded in the second Guinness trial . |
| 24 | Others , whose teenage years were spent in the first half of the Seventies , grew up with a corrupt mixture of Sixties heroes ( Jimi Hendrix , Simon and Garfunkel , The Rolling Stones , Procul Harum ) and Seventies efflorescences ( Led Zeppelin , David Bowie , The Carpenters , Elton John , the original Genesis with Peter Gabriel ) . |
| 25 | The conditions were appaling in the first half . |
| 26 | The four Turkish minarets were added in the sixteenth century . |
| 27 | RAILWAYS : British Rail 's problem is that most of its structures were built in the last century . |
| 28 | These dancers were placed in the first of Noverre 's categories . |
| 29 | However considerable problems were experienced in the first growth-room trial . |
| 30 | Fortunately , the practical operational problems were addressed in the next important report to be published . |