Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] were [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When one recollects that bequests were made in the hope of securing the prayers of beneficiaries for the donor 's soul , it may be assumed that bridges , and also roads , were in sufficient use for such gifts to be regarded as a good piece of spiritual investment . |
| 2 | The team decided that improvements were needed in the way the payslip is laid out . |
| 3 | A possible explanation might be that coins were used in the same way as in Italy but by fewer people , namely only those in urban settlements . |
| 4 | Although shops were wrecked in the attack , it is now clear that the bomb was aimed at the security forces rather than commercial properties . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Such a policy would work even if it were fully announced , provided that expectations were formed in the way we have assumed . |
| 7 | Most voters agreed that changes were needed in the Alliance and a large majority felt changes ( at least in policy ) were also needed in the Labour Party , but views were split almost exactly half-and-half on whether the |
| 8 | Our land buyer approached the agent , who advised that tenders were expected in the region of £50 000 . |
| 9 | Novels such as Mrs Gaskell 's represent the factory girls as too low to be taken into a lady 's house as servants and claimed that immoralities were rooted in the conditions of the mills . |
| 10 | It may have been at about the same time that monks were installed in the church of St Edmund at Bury . |
| 11 | This naturally depended on the terrain : there is no evidence that I can find to suggest that gliders were used in the Morvan on Operation Houndsworth . |
| 12 | Descartes believed firmly that universals were formed in the mind and that ideas possessed ‘ objective ’ and ‘ formal ’ reality ; that is , that it was an irreducible feature of ideas that they were able to be about a class of objects . |
| 13 | GAVIN HASTINGS , captain of the shattered British Isles team , admitted that tears were shed in the dressing room after the last-minute First Test defeat by New Zealand . |
| 14 | Nor is there likely to be a change in fashion which results in feet being accorded the same status , much in the way that bottoms were favoured in the ‘ sixties , crotches in the ‘ seventies and ankles or wasp waists in Victorian times . |
| 15 | The United States Carter Centre , incorporating the Council for Freely Elected Heads of Government , which was supervising electoral preparations , had found in October that some 130,000 eligible voters had been omitted from the electoral register of a potential 350,000 names and that others were registered in the wrong areas . |
| 16 | Although laws were passed in the 1960s , reducing the share of United States ' capital in the firm , it still remains the major shareholder . |
| 17 | Further evidence for macro-molecules comes from the work of Heintz who obtained infra-red absorption patterns of succussed solutions which indicated that polymers were produced in the solvent . |
| 18 | Students and artists were employed in the administration , invigilation and installation of the project . |
| 19 | Suggestions for cuts were then circulated to LAC and RMG members , to other senior staff and Associates , and copies were posted in the Library inviting staff comment . |
| 20 | To recapitulate , all development rights and values were vested in the state . |
| 21 | Many fortresses and castles were built in the Middle Ages in Poland . |
| 22 | Public marches and rallies were banned in the city centre , including Tiananmen Square and the road to the airport . |
| 23 | Drinks and snacks were required in the library . |
| 24 | An upturn in the strength of the Impressionist and Modern market , together with strong performances in the fields of jewellery , Old Master pictures and books were noted in the report . |
| 25 | Despite the Mediterranean sunshine at Redcar yesterday , the tell-tale signs of mushy peas and chips were blowing in the wind . |
| 26 | For years the pope was in exile from Rome , most religious orders and seminaries were closed in the Mediterranean heartlands of the Church , and missionary work overseas was effectively suspended . |
| 27 | On 18 May B company and some of A reached the area of Ath , took a rest and feet were washed in the river and a meal started . |
| 28 | The different perspectives of EP and parents were reflected in the confusion over what had been decided at that meeting . |
| 29 | Although aware of the twentieth century , Poland 's feelings and emotions were trapped in the experience of partition , and it had to struggle to catch up , not just in industrial and economic terms , but socially , artistically and emotionally . |
| 30 | At the end of November , when the extension and new filter were completed , the fish and plants were replaced in the main pond which had also been pressure cleaned and the mains water hose was left flowing overnight in order to refill the pond . |