Example sentences of "[conj] was [vb pp] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a burst of laughter and the woman shrieked something that was lost in the hubbub . |
| 2 | Forty thousand pounds worth of the drug was found in a car that was stopped in a routine check . |
| 3 | Forty thousand pounds worth of the drug was found in a car that was stopped in a routine check . |
| 4 | Ella never missed anything that was said in the kitchen . |
| 5 | In fact I discovered later that he was sitting just under the window , and could hear everything that was said in the kitchen . |
| 6 | The last time I phoned up I said the bicycle that was hidden in the bushes . |
| 7 | She brushed them with a brush that was kept in the summer-house , making them stand still , with their heads up . |
| 8 | It was then that David realised his son 's mouth was full of the taste of the air-freshener spray that was kept in the bathroom . |
| 9 | The trip to Gdynia , Poland to me was a remarkable one by the Eighth Airforce because of the distance involved and the location of the target that was hit in the daytime . |
| 10 | Canon Wright said : ‘ I believe that to go back on the progress that was made in the convention would be a retrograde step , for what is going to replace it ? ’ |
| 11 | Every decision that was made in the house was his , his wife had no say in it . |
| 12 | We believe it is essential to build on the political and technical progress that was made in the agreement that environmental sustainability should be the ultimate goal for all human societies , including ours in Wales . |
| 13 | Lavender was exceptionally small for her age , a skinny little nymph with deep-brown eyes and with dark hair that was cut in a fringe across her forehead . |
| 14 | The first thing that may be noted is that the contrast between different parts of Fig. 21.18 provides immediate evidence for marked organization of the structures ( the point that was illustrated in the case of a wake by Fig. 21.9 ) . |
| 15 | the cable that was demonstrated in the magazine was a little like a lobster claw cable , or could perhaps be described as a three-way plait . |
| 16 | A stocky , even heavy woman , with straight blonde hair that was parted in the middle and otherwise unregulated , she padded about with firm , deliberate steps , not looking much at anyone , not smiling easily as Caroline did , only nodding indifferently when Alice caught a glimpse of her through a door or coming efficiently through the hall . |
| 17 | The application that was heard in the Chancery Division was merely a preliminary issue to see if Eagle was entitled to pursue its claim . |
| 18 | She had fair hair that was done in a roll round her head , bright blue eyes and a loud English voice . |
| 19 | er , now she said the only one we had , in fact she said the only one that 's listing is the one that was done in the Abbey , Westminster Abbey , with the Westminster choir and the London Philharmonic in nineteen eighty two |
| 20 | There was Morrison phrase that was quoted in the play — did you go to the play ? |
| 21 | Britain before the war already experienced itself as a society afflicted by a deep cultural malaise , one that was described in a language quite indistinguishable from postwar thunderings against the ‘ permissive ’ and ‘ affluent ’ society . |
| 22 | The pressure of the stylus causes the two conductive surfaces to make contact , a principle that was used in the Sinclair ZX81 's keyboard . |
| 23 | There , they will be able to ride in a train hauled by a 102-year-old locomotive that was used in the construction of the last mainline railway to be built in Britain . |
| 24 | In the early years of the twentieth century he made contributions to the techniques of gunnery , for instance , in improving ballistic calculations , designing a range-finder that was used in the Boer war , and a new form of gun-sight for the Navy . |
| 25 | The most outstanding collection of faience from the Minoan period is the one that was found in the Temple Repositories in the West Wing at Knossos , where cult vases , plaques , and the famous Snake Goddess statuettes were all treated in this way . |
| 26 | Her eyes looked dark and there was a bleak expression on her face that was mirrored in the face of the man sitting opposite her . |
| 27 | We 've got in the new format sixty of the new new format but what we have been able to do is take elements of the new re-fitted stores and put those for instance erm Pronto we 've managed to take those and re-fit them separately but the actual new concept stores sits at about sixty-odd stores and currently what we 're doing is to check the that we have had a a re-fits this year erm where we 've taken space for other sub-lets where put the new concept back to but as far as the go in majority of the chain now we have most of the major elements i.e an upholstery area bed area Pronto representation and indeed the re-fit that was discussed in the Chairman 's statement the kitchen and bedroom re-fit erm was applicable to all stores so all of the stores have got new kitchens and bedrooms in |
| 28 | A village that was mentioned in the Domesday Book has now been immortalised in a modern publication . |
| 29 | Obviously it 's nice if you can match the colour of the feathers , but a friend of mine had a peregrine that was caught in a bush during a storm , and the only feathers available to effect the repair came from a jackdaw . |
| 30 | This Act did not create any new cause of action for wrongfully causing death ; it merely continued any existing cause of action for personal injuries and loss of expectation of life that was vested in the deceased when he died that would otherwise have been extinguished on his death . |