Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] out in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 2 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 3 | Until post-war reconstruction began in the 1950s and early 1960s , most building projects were carried out in the traditional manner , with an architect designing the building and managing the contract , a quantity surveyor preparing bills of quantities , valuations and a final account , and a general contractor who actually constructed the building . |
| 4 | Several case studies were carried out in the 1970s , of which the Liverpool Inner Area Study ( 1975 ) is of particular interest . |
| 5 | The church was rebuilt in the 13th century and further modifications and restoration were carried out in the 15th century . |
| 6 | Surveys carried out by the optical profession show that after an initial drop , 12.43 million sight tests were carried out in the financial year ending 1991 . |
| 7 | At the same time the ethical requirements were spelt out in the Ten Commandments and other laws . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mahdi Mohammed loyalists were holding out in the northern fringes of the capital . |
| 10 | PRE-SEASON thoughts on the prospects of newcomers Durham making the grade were borne out in the early weeks . |
| 11 | Our names and numbers were called out in the next group , so we joined the slowly moving line of girls and passed through the demobilisation process almost together . |
| 12 | A cynic among us suggested the people were brought out in the early morning for the tourists to snap their unlikely habitat . |
| 13 | And we 'd be talking about the kinds of things which were brought out in the structural report I think there . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | These high moorland stone-walled fields near Malham , West Yorkshire , were laid out in the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | They were laid out in the formal style 300 years ago by James II 's gardener , Guillaume Beaumont . |
| 17 | The formal gardens were laid out in the 18th century . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 . |
| 20 | When original objectives were set out in the early 1980s for improving services and reducing costs at the exchange through cutting down on the amount of paperwork , more detailed efforts were made to put the objectives into action . |
| 21 | Further details were set out in the written statement published on 13 November . |
| 22 | At an ideological level , the purposes of segregated education systems were spelled out in the Bantu Education Act of 1953 , which created an education proclaimed to be ‘ appropriate ’ to the limited prospects for black people under apartheid . |
| 23 | It was growing dusk ; stars were pricking out in the cold sky above them . |
| 24 | More personal equity plans were taken out in the 12 months to April 1992 than in any other year since the PEP scheme was set up in 1987 . |
| 25 | New styles of management , in an Arts and Crafts setting , were tried out in the state-owned pubs in Gretna and Carlisle during the war . |
| 26 | Opponents of the idea that the management of education and training can benefit from the lessons of business and industry found it ironic that the messages which were put out in the two documents criticized weaknesses in the world of employers rather than of educators . |
| 27 | Other lesser interests and associations continued to exist but they were excluded from influence in crucial areas of public policy and were left out in the political cold . |
| 28 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 29 | The best IBMers were sent out in the seventies on secondments , then seen to come back into promotions . |
| 30 | As the geneticists of the early twentieth century turned their backs on field studies and the role of adaptation , a very different group of biologists were striking out in the opposite direction . |