Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reason bein' , we did a complete sweep of the whole area outside the perimeter of the grounds , jes ' in case our man wuz lyin' up in the vicinity . |
| 2 | There was a smell of stale cigarette smoke and some unwashed cups were stacked neatly in the sink , but the room was ferociously clean . |
| 3 | Old tins and coils of wire were stacked willy-nilly in the corners , along with odd-shaped bits of metal and jam jars with nails in them . |
| 4 | The first two generations of robots and their technologies were developed largely in the US by organisations like MIT and Unimation Inc . |
| 5 | The Potsdam conference , attended by Truman , Stalin and Churchill ( until the latter was replaced by Attlee as a result of the British general election ) met in July 1945 : while the conference deliberated the atomic tests were completed successfully in the United States . |
| 6 | HEALTH ministers were rebuked yesterday in the Commons by Speaker Betty Boothroyd for announcing yesterday 's 13 per cent rise in prescription charges by way of a written reply instead of facing MPs . |
| 7 | When I 'd called in at Sunil 's place after Prentice had driven off , Nassim was on the landing yelling orders to the builders who were crashing around in the bathroom . |
| 8 | The deficit reduction targets outlined in April 1989 [ see above ] were revised upwards in the budget to account for higher interest payments . |
| 9 | The thirty-seven canal companies who in 1825 were barely meeting their expenses were situated mostly in the south , in which region most of the unwise ventures of the boom period were concentrated . |
| 10 | Although they were eating early in the evening , English 's was already full of Conservatives demanding in patrician tones that the bones should be removed from their Dover soles . |
| 11 | While the principles for a Catholic ecumenism were formulated principally in the decree specifically devoted to this , all the other main documents of the Council — most notably the two dogmatic constitutions and the Declaration on Religious Freedom — were profoundly affected by this concern . |
| 12 | And er , it was funny yesterday morning the birds in the village were singing just in the way they do in the spri , in the spring , you know , first light . |
| 13 | Two ministers were dismissed later in the year for criticizing government actions : the Information and Broadcasting Minister , Waruru Kanja , in April ( replaced by Nahashion Kanyi ) , and the Agriculture Minister Maina Wanjigi , in June ( replaced by Elijah Mwangale ) . |
| 14 | They were hidden elsewhere in the Dresden Heide , in a safe place . |
| 15 | There is some evidence that the coefficients on expected returns were biased downwards in the OLS equation . |
| 16 | Only when they were returning home in the dusk did James say , ‘ You 'll be right not to come back to Bewick . |
| 17 | Save the Children reported that 200 people were dying daily in the capital . |
| 18 | Neither of these points were picked up in the debate . |
| 19 | However , one must realise that religion , law , rule and learning were fused together in the consciousness of the eighth and ninth centuries . |
| 20 | Our economy has a substantial financial services sector , which would be greatly disadvantaged if the central bank were located anywhere in the Community other than in this country and in London . |
| 21 | The reforms of Joseph II ( 1780–90 ) , which were carried through in the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment , included a secularisation of education and the recognition of the rights of the Slav subjects of the Empire to instruct in their own language . |
| 22 | The loose rocks were carried away in the ice as it slipped downhill into the valleys . |
| 23 | The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages . |
| 24 | These experiments were carried out in the presence of heparin which is known to rapidly and completely dissociate the CRP-DNA binary complex . |
| 25 | All these measures were carried out in the name of cost improvements cost-cutting would be a more appropriate name . |
| 26 | Our case studies of casual working were carried out in the hotels and catering industry where a large proportion of the casual labour force is to be found . |
| 27 | But most cattle thefts were carried out in the interior of the Low Country , Kurunagala , and in the districts bordering these two areas , where they were organized by wealthy and powerful men . |
| 28 | Working up trials were carried out in the Solent area and we soon found that various modifications were necessary . |
| 29 | One possible reason for the difference between Chapman 's and our results is that their experiments were all performed in the presence of 5 mM glutamine ( M Chapman , personal communication ) where our experiments were carried out in the absence of glutamine . |
| 30 | Before the building of the pierheads and bridges commenced , tests were carried out in the Solway Firth . |